Telltale, LucasArts storytelling vet joins Reactive Studios as creative chief

When The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, and The Walking Dead are among your game-design credits, you might know a thing or two about how to tell a story.

That’s the logic behind Dave Grossman, a storytelling veteran from Telltale Games and LucasArts, joining game company Reactive Studios as its chief creative officer, where he’ll focus on interactive audio as a new storytelling medium.

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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.