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Long Live Disco: From Pitch Deck To A Million Wishlists
Some milestones land harder than others. This week, our portfolio company Brain Jar Games crossed 1,000,000 Steam wishlists for Dead as Disco, the rhythm-action brawler launching into Early Access on May 5, 2026. Will Cook and the team marked the moment with a thank you to the community: "Thanks for keeping the Dead as Disco dream alive." We're proud to have been on the dance floor since track one. The Intro That Started It All Two and a half years ago, the founding CEO of an

Shanti Bergel
Apr 305 min read


The Algorithmic Artisan: Reading The Audience In The AI Era
The history of artificial intelligence is inseparable from the evolution of gaming. Since the field’s inception, games from classic board matches to complex digital simulations have provided a vital laboratory for testing and advancing machine intelligence. Correspondingly, AI has been applied widely in video gaming for 50 years, powering non-player characters, procedural environments, and gameplay. Generative AI does not mark the arrival of AI in gaming. It marks a new chapt

Shanti Bergel
Apr 168 min read


The Read · Issue 01 · We See Farther
As the industry gathers in San Francisco for GDC 2026, we're sharing our current read on where the games investment opportunity actually lives, and where conventional wisdom is getting it wrong. Every year, our team works to connect the rooms where our industry's investment decisions get made. From Davos to Shanghai, London, Tokyo, Istanbul, Saigon, Helsinki, Bangalore, to Seoul and San Francisco, we speak regularly with LPs, founders, and strategics building across every seg

Transcend General Partners
Mar 411 min read
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