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Stugan starts taking applications for its game developer incubator in Sweden

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Look out, Finland. Sweden’s new nonprofit game-company accelerator, Stugan, has started taking applications for its first class of game developers.

Stugan, named after the Swedish word for cottage, will take as many as 20 aspiring game developers and train them over eight weeks in the summer at an actual stugan in the town of Falun, just north of Stockholm.

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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.