Pocket Gems' Episode, an interactive tale where readers make choices.
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Mobile game maker Pocket Gems expands to interactive stories with Episode

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Mobile game maker Pocket Gems is venturing into new territory with the release of Episode, a platform for interactive stories on mobile devices.

Episode screen shot
A screenshot from Episode — the choice is yours.

Episode is an innovative take on providing digital content in the age of smartphones and tablets. It is part game, part animated story book, and part soap opera. If it works, it will open up a much broader entertainment market for Pocket Gems than the mobile gaming audience (itself a multibillion dollar industry, with one of its biggest players, King.com, filing for an IPO this week).

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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.