You'll fight in the suburbs in Ruckus Games' new title.
You'll fight in the suburbs in Ruckus Games' new title.
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Ruckus Games raises $19M for ‘suburban invasion’ RPG shooter with disruptive multiplayer

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Ruckus Games has raised $19 million in funding to disrupt the multiplayer gaming landscape with an RPG shooter.

Still under wraps, the debut title will be a third-person, cooperative, session-based RPG shooter, with a unique blend of style, humor and explosive action. It’s a game about a “suburban invasion,” which I guess can mean a lot of things.

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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.