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The DeanBeat: The gaming world is flat, but you can tilt it in your direction

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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TOKYO – I’m third-generation Japanese-American. My grandparents came from Japan as farmers about 100 years ago. I considered it an honor to be able to speak at three events in Japan about my 20 years of experience covering games.

The best part of my job is traveling and talking to people from the game industry and listening to their wisdom, what inspires them, why they do what they do. These journeys have taken me across the globe, and so on my first trip to Japan in 24 years, I spoke on the topic of how I believe “the gaming world is flat, but you can tilt it in your direction.”

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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.