Shakedown Hawaii

Vblank Entertainment’s Shakedown: Hawaii heads to the Epic Games Store

Vblank Entertainment has announced its next game, Shakedown: Hawaii, will make its PC debut first on the Epic Games Store this spring.

Vblank previously made the hit Retro City Rampage, which debuted in 2012 and sold more than 400,000 copies across multiple platforms. Originally envisioned as a Grand Theft Auto homage, it was the product of a single developer, game programmer Brian Provinciano.

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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.