Categories Posted inin BusinessDevelopment Revolving Games hits the market with hybrid Web2/Web3 games | exclusive Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 7, 2025 5 min Revolving Games has hit the market with four hybrid free-to-play/Web3 games and it has a fifth on the way. In doing so, the company... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Revolving Games raises $13.2M to make blockchain games with ex-Rockstar cofounder Dan Houser as an adviser Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 9, 2022 5 min Revolving Games has raised $13.2 million in additional capital to make triple-A blockchain games. The team is led by three Pakistani game veterans (and... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Cloudcade forms game studio and invests in Pakistan as a tech hub Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 31, 2018 2 min San Francisco’s Cloudcade has done well with games such as Shop Heroes in the past five years. And now the company is expanding in... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business GamesBeat Summit 2018 lightning talks: From making games in Pakistan to building communities Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 22, 2018 1 min Our recent GamesBeat Summit 2018 event featured an eclectic mix of lightning round talks, where our speakers were challenged to give a speech about... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay The DeanBeat: Strategic zoom for the game industry Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 25, 2017 11 min In the past nine years, I’ve written around 10,000 stories on games. In this column, I’m going to mention quotes from about 10 of... Continue Reading 11 min
Categories Posted inin Technology The DeanBeat: 3 Pakistani brothers ensure mobile game chat isn’t lost in translation Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 18, 2017 4 min Game developers can grow up anywhere these days, and the latest example of that are the Zaeem brothers from Pakistan. Saad, Ammar, and Shayan have... Continue Reading 4 min