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Sweden’s Starbreeze buys Indian video game studio Dhruva Interactive

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sweden’s Starbreeze, publisher of games like Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, has acquired 90.5 percent of Indian game maker Dhruva Interactive for $7 million in cash and $1.5 million in stock. It’s one more sign of the globalization of the game business.

In doing so, Starbreeze gains 320 employees at Bangalore-based Dhruva, which Indian game pioneer Rajesh Rao started in 1997. Dhruva has grown by providing art production, taking on tasks that include making the cars in Microsoft’s Forza racing series.

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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.