Next Games reveals Compass Point: West, first in four-part mobile-game series

Disclosure: The organizers of Slush paid my way to Helsinki. Our coverage remains objective.

HELSINKI — Next Games, a high-profile mobile-game studio in Helsinki, announced today the first in an ambitious four-part series of mobile titles. The company revealed that it will publish Compass Point: West, a 3D action-strategy game set in the Wild West, in February 2015.

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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.