Gaming’s chief lobbyist reflects on how gaming won the violence debate

Mike Gallagher came out swinging in defense of the game industry in a recent talk. He has to be feisty, as he’s the industry’s chief lobbyist as the CEO of the Entertainment Software Association.

Gallagher is gaming’s biggest cheerleader, and he showed that at the recent DICE Summit elite game industry event in Las Vegas. He’ll be speaking at our GamesBeat Summit 2016 conference on May 3 and May 4 at the Cavallo Point Resort in Sausalito, California. He’s joining a stellar group of other speakers at the invitation-only event. Gallagher is the chief spokesman for an industry that has reached $90 billion in sales around the world, according to tech adviser Digi-Capital.

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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.