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Activision veteran Robin Kaminsky joins Trion World’s board (exclusive)

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Former Activision executive Robin Kaminsky has joined the board of online gaming firm Trion Worlds. The addition gives Trion more expertise as it makes the transition to more free-to-play massively multiplayer online games, Kaminsky said in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat.

Robin Kaminsky
Robin Kaminsky

Trion has launched Rift and Defiance, two MMOs with dynamic content. The company spent years developing those titles as subscription-based titles, but the sands have shifted toward free-to-play games, where users play for free and pay real money for virtual goods.

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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.