Left to right: Highwire founders Marty O'Donnell, Jared Noftle, and Jaime Griesemer.
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Ex-Halo creators want Golem to be a flagship game for PlayStation VR

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Golem is the brainchild of Highwire Games, a Seattle startup from video game industry veterans who hope to create one of the flagship games for Sony’s PlayStation VR platform coming next year.

Sony showed off a trailer for Golem at the PlayStation Experience (PSX) event over the weekend. In the demo, a young woman confined to a room makes various motions with her body. It becomes clear that she is controlling a creature, known as a Golem, in a fanciful world. It’s not much of a revelation, but Highwire Games has been working on the PlayStation VR exclusive for some time.

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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.