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Insomniac’s Ted Price says the industry’s malaise mandated drastic changes to Fuse sci-fi game (interview)

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Insomniac Games’ new cooperative-style sci-fi shooting game Fuse has already lit a few controversies. When Insomniac first revealed it at the E3 trade show in 2011, it was a comic title called Overstrike. But the development team did some soul-searching and decided to re-create Fuse’s tone as a serious game with intense, mature combat, akin to the fierce battles in Gears of War. The change raised hackles among fans, some of whom preferred the previous style, but it unleashes Insomniac’s developers to make the game that they want to build.

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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.