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Retroit brings spectators into street-driving mayhem

Black Block‘s Retroit street-driving game is like being behind the wheel in Grand Theft Auto from an overhead view, with one big twist: People watching this mobile game can drop obstacles or prizes in your path.

In the age of livestreaming, game developers are trying to figure out how to get people to interact with the game that they’re watching. Retroit does this using technology from interactive broadcasting firm Genvid Technologies.

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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.