came up with the idea for WowCube.
Savva Osipov came up with the idea for WowCube.
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WowCube raises $1.5M from Xsolla founder for its Rubik’s Cube-like game device

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Cubios, the creator of the WowCube handheld gaming cube, has raised $1.5 million from the founder of Xsolla, Aleksandr Agapitov. The funding is part of a total of $4.5 million raised in the company’s latest round.

The WowCube is like a Rubik’s Cube with displays on it. It’s a simple device, and it is unique because it was conceived five years ago by a then-13-year-old boy and then built into a company by his father. The young teen asked his father if a Rubik’s Cube could be made with video game displays. And so his father, Ilya Osipov, started Cubios to make it happen.

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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.