There are more than 30 onscreen characters in Telling Lies.
There are more than 30 onscreen characters in Telling Lies.
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Telling Lies review — Deciphering lies within lies using only a video database

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Sam Barlow and Annapurna Interactive are launching Telling Lies, an interactive investigation thriller game, on August 23 on the PC, Mac, and iOS devices. At least, that’s what they’re telling us they’re going to do. Then again, this is all about people who lie to us.

Barlow is the creator of the award-winning title Her Story, in which you search through a bunch of police interviews to unravel a murder mystery. Telling Lies takes this interactive video genre to another level, exploring the extent to which we can ever truly know those we love.

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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.