The most unusual meeting that I had at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game trade show was with Martin Kenright, the founder of Starship. In our brief half hour, the creator of the Motorstorm racing games showed me a vision for the future that was truly ambitious. It wants to disrupt video games, cooking, and health lifestyle apps.
Martin Kenright of Starship
The London-based company has its roots in hardcore video games. Kenright founded Evolution Studios to make racing games like Wipeout and Formula 1, and he sold it to Sony in 2007. He retired and sat on the sidelines for a while and watched the hardcore game industry become narrower and more polarized. But in 2013, he decided to try something altogether new.
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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.
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