Marble Land is one of the games financed by Carbon.
Marble Land is one of the games financed by Carbon.
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Romania’s Carbon is an emerging markets ‘micropublisher’

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gaming has gone global, and Carbon wants to make it even more so. The Romanian company wants to help small game developers get off the ground by serving as a “micropublisher,” or one that deals with very small but talented game developers.

Carbon’s vision is to enrich the global game industry with new sources of talent and creativity, as a way to counter the rise of mobile gaming’s monolithic giants such as Supercell, King, Niantic, and MZ in the West as well as Tencent, NetEase, and Netmarble in the East.

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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.