Skillz and the IGDA are teaming up.
Skillz and the IGDA are teaming up.
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Skillz teams up with IGDA to introduce new game makers to game developer chapters

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 2 min

Mobile esports company Skillz has joined with the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) to connect studios to Skillz’s community of 30 million players and 17,500 new game makers.

The San Francisco-based Skillz makes it possible to play esports matches in mobile games, and it has built up an audience of 30 million registered players. On top of that, Skillz enables developers to create new mobile esports games, and it has built that network up to 20,000 players. The IGDA, meanwhile, has a network of 10,000 chapters of game developer groups. And now they will be connected.

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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.