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The DeanBeat: Do blockbuster games require more people to make than movies?

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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We saw plenty of blockbuster games — some still in the making — last night at The Game Awards, an event that is often labeled the Oscars of gaming.

And while the game industry now exceeds the revenues of movies and music combined, the comparisons to movies are still apt as a sign of maturity of the nearly 50-year-old medium of video games. One key question is whether it takes more people to create a blockbuster video game than it does to make a movie, and one answer comes from the folks at game publisher Casino Kings.

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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.