Left to right: Chris Heatherly of NBC Universal, Michael Fox of Endless Entertainment, and Sean Krankel of Night School Studio.
Left to right: Chris Heatherly of NBC Universal, Michael Fox of Endless Entertainment, and Sean Krankel of Night School Studio.
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NBCUniversal’s Chris Heatherly — The future of interactive storytelling

Chris Heatherly, executive vice president of games and digital platforms at NBCUniversal, has seen storytelling evolve in mobile, console, and PC games in the past few years. But he doesn’t think it’s dead.

Heatherly directed a panel on the “future of interactive storytelling” at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2019 event in April. He quizzed Michael Fox, CEO of Endless Entertainment, and Sean Krankel, studio director at Night School Studio, about their views on this subject.

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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.