Geoff Keighley at the launch of the PlayStation 4 in NYC.
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YouTube signs game news personality Geoff Keighley to host live E3 coverage

YouTube has signed gaming personality Geoff Keighley to host a 12-hour livestream at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the big video game trade show that kicks off the week of June 14.

Keighley will host a live show about E3 announcements on June 15. The move is an effort by Google’s YouTube to grab more share of the viewing audience from other livestream rivals such as Amazon’s Twitch livestreaming service. Rather than just post videos after the fact, YouTube is putting more emphasis on live show coverage.

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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.