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Level Squared wins best student game at The Game Awards

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Level Squared won the best student game, a new category awarded for the first time tonight at The Game Awards.

It went by a little fast, so I have no idea how to describe it. But it was made by a team at Swinburne University, and the older-looking guy who accepted the award is one of the students, as he said, “I’m graduating next week. Somebody hire me, please.”

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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.