Sam Barlow came to E3 2019 to talk about Telling Lies.
Sam Barlow came to E3 2019 to talk about Telling Lies.
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Sam Barlow’s Telling Lies lets you spy on the lives of 4 liars

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 13 min

Sam Barlow’s Telling Lies gives you the feeling that you’re searching through an enormous trove of surveillance data scooped up by the National Security Agency.

A woman has stolen the data and has about four hours to pore through the material to solve a mystery. And Barlow, the creator of the interactive movie game Her Story that won numerous awards in 2015, says there are 96 lies and one big truth to uncover.

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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.