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Harmonix’s Alex Rigopulos on reinventing music games with Disney’s Fantasia (exclusive interview)

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Harmonix Music Systems and Disney Interactive are collaborating on Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved in an attempt to create the next big thing in music games. We’ve all had our turn at Guitar Hero and made fools of ourselves with Dance Central on Kinect, and now he wants us to play this “breakthrough musical motion” game when it debuts on Microsoft’s consoles in 2014.

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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.