Jack Joyce, played by Shawn Ashmore, is the hero of Quantum Break.
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Quantum Break takes interactivity, video, and time travel in a riveting direction

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 12 min

Time-travel tales are perhaps the most complicated plots in all of storytelling, and they’re difficult to pull off. But when they work, they’re awesome, such as in the Terminator movies or Stephen King’s The Dark Tower novels. Quantum Break, the big budget video game from Microsoft and developer Remedy Entertainment, has one of the most ambitious time-travel stories I’ve ever seen in a video game. It makes me wonder if I can rewind my life and live it over again.

Quantum Break is one of the most important new original games coming from Microsoft, which needs exclusive games like this for its hardware platforms such as the Windows 10 PC and the Xbox One to stay competitive. Sony’s PlayStation 4 is pulling far ahead in the hardware battle, and potential blockbusters like Quantum Break are critical for Microsoft to remain relevant to gamers.

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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.