Fighting nature in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
Fighting nature in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
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Disney interview: Big games coming with Avatar and Pirates of the Caribbean

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 12 min

Disney had a big week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) with the announcement of Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The in-development open-world game has cinematic graphics that replicate the imagery of the movie and the environments of the beautiful moon of Pandora.

Microsoft’s Rare studio also announced that characters from the Pirates of the Caribbean films, like Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones, will come Sea of Thieves. Both are examples of Disney’s return to triple-A games after changes to its strategy for games over the years.

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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.