A community screen from Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen
A community screen from Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen
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Visionary Realms’ Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen sees success in early access

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

Visionary Realms is an ambitious game studio that recently launched early access for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, a massively multiplayer online role-playing social fantasy game.

The December 13 launch on Steam was a bittersweet moment for the team, which had been run by EverQuest game pioneer Brad McQuaid. McQuaid died at age 50 in 2019, in the midst of the game’s development.

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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.