First Person Shooter is a documentary raising money via Kickstarter.
First Person Shooter is a documentary raising money via Kickstarter.
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Robin Block: Diving deep into the golden age of first-person shooter games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The creators of the documentary FPS: First Person Shooter hit their goal for their Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in a single day. CreatorVC launched the campaign on Thursday, and it has already raised more than $57,000.

I talked to CreatorVC CEO Robin Block about how his team will create the three-hour retrospective documentary capturing the history of landmark first-person shooters such as Doom, Halo, and Duke Nukem.

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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.