The Pan Africa Gaming Group aims to add a billion gamers in Africa.
The Pan Africa Gaming Group aims to add a billion gamers in Africa.
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Pan Africa Gaming Group aims to bring a billion new players to gaming

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Pan Africa Gaming Group is launched today, with 10 companies coming together to grow Africa’s gaming industry to the next billion players.

The group of 10 game studios unveiled itself at the Africa Games Week 2022 event in Cape Town, South Africa. The group wants to grow the Africa gaming industry by two times every year to take advantage of the rapid growth of youths with internet connected smartphones on the continent.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.