Judas

Ken Levine’s Judas debuts at The Game Awards

Ken Levine’s Ghost Story Games teased a lot of in-engine scenes from a new game, Judas.

The crowd let out a roar at The Game Awards when the words flashed across the screen, “From the maker of BioShock….”

The title has a kind of Alice in Wonderland look to it, with crazy but beautiful images reminiscent of Levine’s titles like BioShock and BioShock Infinite. This was unexpected.

Geoff Keighley, organizer of The Game Awards, said he visited the studio in Boston and played multiple hours of the game in-engine, and it was pretty good. There was no real telling what the narrative was about, except for the phrase, “Fix what you broke.” You can wishlist it now on the consoles and PC.

Bloomberg wrote a story a while back on how long it was taking Levine, an auteur creator, to make his next big game. That story made i seem like that game might never get made. Well, it looks like it’s coming. And wow.

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.