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Ben Cousins wants to prove mobile first-person shooters aren’t a pipe dream (interview)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Ben Cousins has been working quietly in Stockholm for the past year with his team of 20 developers at Scattered Entertainment. Today, they’re taking the wraps off their new game, The Drowning, a high-end first-person shooter game for smartphones and tablets with novel touchscreen controls and beautiful 3D.

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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.