Tonic Games Group leaders Dave Bailey and Paul Croft.
Tonic Games Group leaders Dave Bailey and Paul Croft.
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Tonic Games Group will manage multiple game studios and publishing operations

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Tonic Games Group is the new parent company for game development studios Mediatonic and Fortitude, and it will oversee the publishing label The Irregular Corporation. It’s a sign the company has moved up the food chain in gaming and wants to build a broad and sustainable long-term business.

The London-based Tonic Games Group family has about 300 people making games globally in seven locations around the world. It has a total of five studios and two publishing offices, and it’s partnered with third-party studios in 13 countries across its brand family. These groups were scattered as separate companies before, though they had the same ownership.

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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.