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Genvid launches a publishing division headed by former Ubisoft producer

Genvid Technologies has started a publishing division and hired former Ubisoft production leader Arthur von Nagel.

Von Nagel will become vice president of production at Genvid Entertainment. He will oversee the Genvid Entertainment product slate and manage its creative and production teams. That means he will work with outside teams that are producing the company’s Massive Interactive Live Events (MILEs), which are a kind of interactive narrative media.

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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.