Josef Fares at The Game Awards.
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The DeanBeat: The Game Awards and why game developers say ‘F*** the Oscars’

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Last night’s The Game Awards had some touching, sweet, and funny moments. But Josef Fares, creator of the upcoming A Way Out from Electronic Arts, stole the show. While he got the most laughs, he also addressed some of gaming’s most serious subjects.

Like it or not, The Game Awards capture the culture of gaming. The characters who go up on stage and the stories they tell bring out the passion of the industry, and they underscore both the pride and the tribalism of gamers and game makers. To me, the developer speeches always say so much, cutting through the corporate nature of gaming and taking it back to the joy of creativity.

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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.