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DeNA’s first-person shooter The Drowning nears launch on the iPad (interview)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 14 min

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Ben Cousins made the move from AAA console games to mobile entertainment. But he refused to leave first-person shooters behind, even though it’s exceedingly hard to make a shooter that can be controlled with a touchscreen on a smartphone or tablet. But at DeNA’s Scattered Entertainment studio in Stockholm, Cousins’ team of former Battlefield game developers has done just that  with a title that they call The Drowning.

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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.