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The DeanBeat: Will Battlefield 4 or Puzzle & Dragons reach $1B in revenues?

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The mobile revolution is on the minds of everybody at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). It is happening faster than anyone expected, and it came into sharp focus this week as Japan’s telecom giant SoftBank announced it would pay $265 million to acquire additional shares in GungHo Online Entertainment, the maker of the runaway mobile gaming hit Puzzle & Dragons. That game was made by six people over the course of a year.

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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.