Next Games is making The Walking Dead game for mobile.
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With $6M raised, Finland’s Next Games plans big mobile games like The Walking Dead

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Next Games has raised $6 million in its quest to become Finland’s next big mobile-game company.

The Finns have had great success in the mobile-gaming era with Rovio’s Angry Birds and Supercell’s Clash of Clans. Now Next Games plans to make a big splash with a mobile version of AMC’s successful television show, The Walking Dead.

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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.