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Dean Takahashi’s opening remarks on Total World Domination at GamesBeat 2014

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Welcome to our sixth annual GamesBeat conference. This event is now so old that I can recycle my jokes.

Thank you for coming today. I’d like you all to turn around and look at the back of the room. Now wave to the camera. Twitch is livestreaming this whole conference to the Internet. Yes, that means that a million spectators are watching you in the audience, as you are watching our conference. So don’t pick your nose, because you never know when someone is going to take a screenshot.

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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.