Rand Miller, CEO of Cyan, won GamesBeat's first Visionary Award at the GamesBeat Summit 2018.
Rand Miller, CEO of Cyan, won GamesBeat's first Visionary Award at the GamesBeat Summit 2018.
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GamesBeat Visionary Award winner Rand Miller on pioneering new game experiences

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Rand Miller has been making games for decades. The CEO of Cyan is best known for making — with his brother Robyn Miller — the pioneering computer games Myst and Riven in the 1990s. They embraced a brand new medium, the CD-ROM, and made games that told cinematic stories and had amazing visuals.

I interviewed Miller in a fireside chat at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2018 event, and I gave Miller our first-ever GamesBeat Visionary Award. For the first time in a decade of events at GamesBeat, we gave an award to someone who pioneered something momentous. Miller was at the dawn of the age of CD-ROM games, and he’s still on the forefront with virtual reality games, such as Obduction.

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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.