Justin Wide is studio art director for ForwardXP
Justin Thomas is studio art director for ForwardXP
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Enterprise VR startup ForwardXP forms game division and hires art director

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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ForwardXP announced that it has created a new division, Forward Game Studios, and hired a new studio art director Justin Thomas.

The Dallas-based enterprise VR studio is expanding beyond VR into video game development and independent game publishing, which seems like a wise thing to do given the relatively slow traction for VR, particularly in consumer games.

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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.