The Games for Change Festival will be online.

Games for Change will go virtual with trailblazing speakers July 14 to July 16

Games For Change, the game conference and festival that promotes the power of games for social impact, announced it is opening registration for its event taking place virtually July 14 to July 16.

For the first time, registration will be free to all participants, as the group hopes to draw a global audience to explore how video games and immersive media foster resilience, connected-ness, and well-being.

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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.