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Sky: Children of the Light developer Thatgamecompany raises $1 million for pandemic relief

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Thatgamecompany, the developer of Journey and Sky: Children of the Light, said today it has raised $1.02 million for pandemic relief through a fundraiser inside its mobile game. The Santa Monica, California-based company said it is donating the money from Sky fans to the nonprofits Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and it also completed a separate charitable drive with OneTreePlanted.

Thatgamecompany said recently that Sky: Children of the Light has more than 20 million downloads on iOS and Android. The game has been praised for encouraging positive and compassionate behaviors in its design and community.

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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.