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How Telltale Games is preparing for the era of cloud gaming

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

Telltale Games is known for pushing the edge on interactive storytelling with games like The Walking Dead, the episodic, post-apocalypse game that forced players to make tough choices about which friends to save from zombies. That series has sold millions, and it clinched the company’s reputation for drawing emotional responses from gamers.

That’s not necessarily the profile of a company that is also pushing the edge on cloud gaming or using the power of computing in internet-connected data centers to augment the processing power in gaming devices such as laptops, tablets, or PCs.

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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.