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Stoke Games raises $5.5M to create strategic shooter game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Stoke Games has raised $5.5 million in funding to pioneer a strategic shooter game.

The funding marks a significant milestone for the 14-person independent studio, which aims to evolve the shooter genre by infusing strategic elements and deliberate action, diverging from the traditional fast-paced, twitch-reflex style.

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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.