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Meet the 7 finalists for the GamesBeat 2013 Who’s Got Game Innovation Showdown

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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We received 40 quality startup applicants to the GamesBeat 2013 Who’s Got Game Innovation Showdown, one of the highlights of VentureBeat’s fifth annual gaming conference (Oct. 29–30 in Redwood City, Calif.).

We’ve narrowed the pool down to seven finalists who will present their innovative products or services on day two of GamesBeat. They’ll each have 5 minutes to sell our expert panel of judges on how their companies embody, enable, or amplify the very best new ideas in and around gaming.

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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.