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The DeanBeat: Shinra inches forward on its plan to revolutionize online games [update]

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Update 11:36 a.m. Pacific: Corrected to show it was Alex Tait of Shina Technologies’ Montreal studio, not Andy Kipling of Hardsuit Labs, who GamesBeat quoted. 

When the leaders of Shinra Technologies unveiled Project Flare in November 2013, it was mostly fantasy. And that was no accident, since Shinra’s founder is Yoichi Wada, former chief executive of Square Enix, came from the maker of Final Fantasy game series. Wada has some very fantastic goals for Shinra, and if he succeeds, the accomplishment will be a much bigger deal than selling more than 100 million Final Fantasy games over the years.

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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.