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Ukrainian game devs at Jarvi Games raise $3M for Vice Online

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Ukrainian game developers at Jarvi Games raised $3 million to fund their Vice Online open world multiplayer mobile game.

Jarvi Games is legally based in Cyprus, but its development team of 30 people is spread out between Lviv, Ukraine, and Warsaw, Poland. The company was based in Kharkiv, but the war with Russia forced the company to move to safer areas, said Dmitry Burnos, cofounder and chief product officer of Jarvi Games, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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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.