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Playdemic cofounders raise $10M for ForthStar game studio

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Playdemic founders Paul Gouge and Alex Rigby have unveiled their latest venture, ForthStar, a new mobile free-to-play game studio.

The Manchester, United Kingdom-based studio reunites some of the team from Playdemic, the maker of the remarkable hit Golf Clash. Electronic Arts bought Playdemic for $1.4 billion in 2021.

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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.