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GamesBeat Weekly Roundup: Bad game PR, Watch Dogs over 8M, and clever Osmo iPad games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Happy Eleventh of July! Before you celebrate with leftover explosives, why don’t you catch up on a week’s worth of GamesBeat’s news and stories?

Below, you’ll read about Cliff Bleszinski’s explanation for coming out of early retirement, what happens when PR takes a wrong turn, and Ubisoft’s sales of 8 million copies of Watch Dogs.

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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.