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Mad Max video game reveals a desert full of danger (hands-on preview)

The desert is full of things that can kill you, and most of them are human. That’s a takeaway from our hands-on preview of Mad Max, the new game coming from Warner Bros. based on the new Mad Max: Fury Road film.

The Mad Max movie remake starring Tom Hardy has taken in more than $219.8 million worldwide in just 10 days, according to Box Office Mojo. If the game debuting on Sept. 1 turns out well, that will be even more good news for Warner’s strategy of making “transmedia,” or stories that transcend more than one medium.

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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.