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Strategy game maker Kixeye sets up customer support in Portland

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Kixeye is announcing today that it is setting up a new customer service center in Portland, Ore., as it expands support for its online combat strategy games.

The move could jumpstart a fledgling game industry in the Silicon Forest, as Portland is known. The region is home to plenty of chip makers such as Intel and hardware companies such as Hewlett-Packard, but it has a tiny presence in the expanding game industry. Kixeye’s move will add 20 jobs by the end of the year. It may not sound like much, but it might very well get a gaming ecosystem going in Oregon.

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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.