slider navigation

March 19 – 30, 2025

slider navigation

Navid Khonsari

Navid is the co-founder and CEO of iNK Stories. Passionate about ushering in the next evolution of narrative action adventure games Khonsari is known for developing the cinematic look and feel for the highest earning AAA video games franchises of all time including: Grand Theft Auto/Vice City/San Andreas, Max Payne, The Warriors, Midnight Club, Manhunt, Red Dead Revolver, Alan Wake, Homefront, Resident Evil 7 and Everywhere. Khonsari founded the acclaimed independent game studio iNK Stories, called “an innovation agent” by Fast Company. There, Khonsari created a development pipeline from concept to publishing across game platforms from consoles to VR/XR and collaborations with Meta, Google, Verizon, Microsoft and more. iNK’s original titles (1979 Revolution, Hero, Fire Escape, Blindfold) went on to earn the industries top honors including Best Game Direction and Independent Game of the Year Nominations by the Academy of Interactive Sciences, BAFTA, Winner of Facebook’s Game of the Year, Lumiere Award for Best Immersive, Winning Indiecade Jury Prize, Best of E3, NY Game Critics Nominations for Writing, Best Narrative Game, Tribeca Film Festival’s Storyscape Award and more