Josef Fares, founder of Hazelight, maker of A Way Out.
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A Way Out creator Josef Fares: ‘If you don’t like it, you can break my legs’

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Electronic Arts showed a lot of potential blockbuster games yesterday, but one that showed its originality off was a little indie title from its EA Originals label, dubbed A Way Out. It was a wonderfully creative co-op game about two friends breaking out of a prison.

Josef Fares, the head of Hazelight, a new studio from the creators of indie hit Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, was so proud of the title as he walked out on stage and described it. I caught up with him in a small group interview and played a small part of the game in a hands-on session. It was hilarious because Fares was so excited about his game, and he wasn’t holding back.

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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.