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3D Realms hires Justin Burnham as chief creative officer to level up action games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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3D Realms has hired Justin Burnham as chief creative officer to level up the company’s indie-oriented action games.

Aalborg, Denmark-based 3DRealms is known for creating original shooter franchises like Duke Nukem, Max Payne, and Prey, 3D Realms said. (Note a dispute over this list of titles).

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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.