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Swedish publisher sells acclaimed Brothers to 505 Games for $500K

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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This sounds like a bargain.

Swedish publisher Starbreeze said Friday it has sold its acclaimed 2013 downloadable game Brothers: A Tale of Sons for $500,000. 505 Games, which published the original, has acquired “full entitlement to the game,” including trademarks and domain names related to it. Brothers is a beautiful game with a great story and creative gameplay, and it made my top 10 list for the best games of 2013.

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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.