Orwell: Ignorance is Strength is the second season in the surveillance game.
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Orwell: Ignorance is Strength takes on fake news in Season Two

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The designers of Orwell: Ignorance is Strength are pulling their story about surveillance and fake news straight from the headlines from U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media. These have put the spotlight on fake news, and Osmotic Studios is turning this reality show into a computer game.

The original Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You debuted in five episodes in fall 2016. It sold more than 130,000 copies. That’s not much by the standards of Activision or EA, but it was plenty for the team of three independent developers (and their contractors) at Osmotic Studios to continue making Season Two of the award-winning surveillance thriller.

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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.