Pistol Whip

A little taste of extended family holiday gaming | The DeanBeat

When I asked my extended family what they wanted to play on the Meta Quest 3 during the holidays, they asked me what I had to show them. To simplify things, I said I have a “meditation game” and a “shooting game.”

To my surprise, most of them said they wanted to play the shooting game. And perhaps not so surprising: The Meta Quest 3 was the gaming platform that they came back to over and over again. I gave them a choice between the meditation game of Tripp, where you can experience a kind of interactive psychedelic experience and Pistol Whip, the shooting game in virtual reality. Only a couple chose the meditation game, while they came back over and over to play Pistol Whip.

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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.