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The DeanBeat: Is it a golden age of gaming when everything gets funding?

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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This week was a microcosm of the game industry’s continuous expansion. And it makes me think of the dream of a golden age of gaming.

ProbablyMonsters, a startup game publisher run by former Bungie CEO Harold Ryan, announced that it had raised $250 million to continue to fund multiple triple-A games at once. Jon Goldman’s Tower 26 raised a $50 million fund to fund virtual reality games and other immersive content. Meta’s VR division announced new titles like a Ghostbusters VR game.

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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.