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Insomniac’s Fuse promises some intense multiplayer co-op battles (hands-on preview)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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When it first appeared as Overstrike in June 2011, Insomniac Games next game series was a cartoon-style comic shooting game. Rebranded as Fuse, it is almost the exact opposite now. The game development studio has taken the veil off of Fuse’s multiplayer gaming mode and we got a good look at it at a hands-on preview event. The title is a very different kind of fighting experience, and I find that refreshing. Just as all of the major blockbuster game franchises move on to their third or fourth instantiation (Halo 4, Assassin’s Creed III, Resistance 3, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Fortune, Call of Duty Gazillion), it’s nice to see a brand new game.

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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.