Shawn Foust is CEO of Plexchat.
Shawn Foust is CEO of Plexchat.
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Warner Bros. picks up Plexchat for social gaming

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is adding a social element to its mobile game business with the acquisition of Plexchat, a social gaming startup that built a chat system for mobile gamers.

Warner Bros. is picking up the Palo Alto, California-based startup created by founder Shawn Foust, who raised about $7 million for the business about a year ago. It’s a little surprising that the relatively young startup sold early, but it was fishing about for a business to pursue.

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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.