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Hands-on with the sharks, the drones, and the underwater beauty of Abzû

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Abzû is one of the prettiest and most mysterious games coming for the PlayStation 4.

The underwater exploration title is unlike many of the boring “undersea adventure” game that we’ve seen in the past. I have high expectations in part because of the pedigree of its principal creator, Matt Nava, founder of the new studio Giant Squid.

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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.