Sam Barlow wins grand prize for Her Story at the Independent Games Festival.
Sam Barlow wins grand prize for Her Story at the Independent Games Festival.
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Sam Barlow’s Her Story wins grand prize at Independent Games Festival

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Her Story, an interactive mystery by game developer Sam Barlow, won the top honor — the Seumas McNally grand prize — at the Independent Games Festival at the Game Developers Conference this week.

The Independent Games Festival honors the games made by the underdogs of gaming, the independent developers who have flourished in the age of app stores and new platforms.

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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.