GamesBeat@GDC Who’s Got Game best game startup contest deadline is today

Today at 5 pm Pacific time is the deadline for submissions to the GamesBeat@GDC Who’s Got Game best game startup contest. If you’re a game entrepreneur, please fill out an application here. We’ve got some good entries but would love to get more. The finalists will be chosen early next week and will have the opportunity to present in front of hundreds of movers and shakers in the game industry at our conference on March 10.

Our panel of judges — moderator Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners, Eric Goldberg of Crossover Technologies, Joe Hyrkin of Trinity Ventures, Jamil Moledina of Electronic Arts Partners, and Patrick Mork of GetJar — will review the finalists on stage at GamesBeat@GDC and pick a winner.

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.