Play Apart Together campaign participants.
Play Apart Together campaign participants.
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Game industry recommits to #PlayApartTogether campaign a year after pandemic started

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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A year ago, leaders from the global games industry participated in the #PlayApartTogether campaign to fight the pandemic. And now they’re recommitting to the initiative that the World Health Organization launched.

The campaign encouraged people to follow WHO health advice on preventing COVID-19 infection. As part of PlayApartTogether, 88 gaming companies agreed to disseminate evidence-based health messages from WHO to help slow the spread of COVID-19.

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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.