Virsix has created Star Audition as a card/smart speaker game for families.
Virsix has created Star Audition as a card/smart speaker game for families.
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Nolan Bushnell’s Virsix Games launches Star Audition party game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nolan Bushnell helped start Atari in 1972 and launch the video game industry with Pong. But the 78-year-old cofounder of Virsix Games isn’t done yet. Now his new company is launching a Kickstarter campaign for Star Audition, a party game where you act out a script with help from smart speaker technology.

In an interview with GamesBeat, Bushnell said the card game lets you unleash your inner actor or actress by acting out a random faux script using a celebrity characters such as Darth Vader. Your fellow players anonymously vote on how well you perform, giving you a card with tomatoes for a bad job and a roe for the theatrical performance of a lifetime. Whoever does the best job gets the Academy Award.

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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.