Dean Takahashi of GamesBeat talks about Pixels to Pop Culture at the start of GamesBeat at The Game Awards.
Dean Takahashi of GamesBeat talks about Pixels to Pop Culture at the start of GamesBeat at The Game Awards.
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From pixels to pop culture

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Here’s my opening speech at GamesBeat at The Game Awards event at the Grammy Museum at LA Live on December 7.

The Game Awards is the biggest celebration of gaming that we have with more than 100 million people watching it. So we felt there was no better time to do an event that helped celebrate gaming with the GamesBeat community. 

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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.