Relic Entertainment spun out of Sega after shipping Company of Heroes 3.
Relic Entertainment spun out of Sega after shipping Company of Heroes 3.
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Relic Entertainment adopts a new strategy in its life after Sega

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Making games is a bit like a real-time strategy game. And sometimes you have to change course.

Relic Entertainment, which is newly independent after spinning out of its previous owner Sega, is now charting a new course as an indie maker of real-time strategy games and smaller “adjacent” genres of games.

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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.