Infinite Realms turns fantasy books into living, breathing game worlds with help of AI Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 7, 2025 5 min Infinite Realms wants to turn beloved fantasy books with big followings into living, breathing game worlds. The company, which was born from the game... Continue Reading 5 min
Nuwa Pen uses computer vision and motion sensing to digitize the words you write on paper Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 4, 2025 3 min Nuwa Pen is a smart ballpoint pen that digitizes the words you write on paper as you write them. The pen uses a standard... Continue Reading 3 min
A new generation of J.R.R. Tolkien games is coming | Lee Guinchard exclusive interview Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 13, 2024 19 min In his office, Lee Guinchard has a bunch of paraphernalia honoring J.R.R. Tolkien and his works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.... Continue Reading 19 min
Next Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings movie coming in 2026 Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 9, 2024 2 min Warners Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said today that the next Peter Jackson movie based on The Lord of the Rings is likely coming... Continue Reading 2 min
Replay is the family memoir of the prince of game development | Jordan Mechner interview Posted byby GamesBeat March 25, 2024 19 min Jordan Mechner has been an amazing game designer since he debuted Karateka in 1984 and Prince of Persia in 1989. But one of his... Continue Reading 19 min
Dune: Part 2 tries to balance the book’s canon with creative license (spoilers) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 2, 2024 9 min When I watched the start of the Denis Villaneuve’s first Dune movie (2021) with my youngest kid, it was a special moment that took... Continue Reading 9 min
Don Daglow memorializes those we lost in the game industry Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 24, 2023 4 min As Don Daglow noticed friends and former colleagues passing away, he felt they should be remembered. And so he started keeping a log of... Continue Reading 4 min
Limited Run’s Press Run wants to preserve gaming history with books Posted byby Rachel Kaser October 3, 2022 2 min Limited Run Games announced last week that it’s launching a new book publishing imprint called Press Run. With this new imprint, it plans to... Continue Reading 2 min
A Plague Tale: Requiem upgrades brother Hugo for the sequel Posted byby Rachel Kaser September 8, 2022 2 min A Plague Tale: Requiem, the sequel to 2019’s A Plague Tale: Innocence, is one of the bigger games launching this fall. GamesBeat got to... Continue Reading 2 min
Happinet to publish Quillo Games’ Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale Posted byby GamesBeat July 19, 2022 1 min Japanese publisher Happinet has partnered with Quillo Games on their debut title — Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale. The game follows Mai, a young girl... Continue Reading 1 min