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Twin Mirror hands-on — Dontnod’s flawed hero unravels a mystery

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 3 min

Journalists usually aren’t cast as heroes these days, and so it’s fitting that Sam Higgs, the star of Dontnod Entertainment‘s latest narrative game Twin Mirror, is a tortured soul.

Dontnod’s latest story-based game is arriving on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Epic Games Store on the PC on December 1. I played a couple hours of the game in a preview session, and I can certainly identify with the tortured soul. This self-published game, co-developed with Shibuya Productions, is an example of how Dontnod is spreading out beyond its popular Life Is Strange series.

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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.