Unleashed is making a platform for MMOs to bring people together | The DeanBeat

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 9, 2024
Updated June 18, 2025
10 min

Irena Pereira worked at 38 Studios, the massively multiplayer online game company spearheaded by former Boston Red Sox star pitcher Curt Schilling. She heard about a hard drive that had the contents of the game, Kingdoms of Amalur, which was never launched.

She searched (so far) in vain to find the drive and for a way to access the encrypted drive, and one of the only people who knew the code passed away. The drive reportedly has the contents of an MMO that took six years to develop but crashed and burned due to poor management and a dearth of funding.

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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.