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Candid moments of the ‘who’s who’ at gaming’s red carpet event

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Dice Awards are like the Oscars of gaming. Well, at least we like to say that because it tells you how important they are to video game makers and their fans.

The awards from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences were the climax of the 15th annual Dice Summit, the elite game industry event in Las Vegas last week. And to make it feel like the Oscars, the event preshow features a red carpet walk, complete with paparazzi and a lot of game press with expensive-looking video cameras. I enjoy chatting with the developers and celebrities who walked by. But it’s always a little challenging to figure out what to talk about in a 30 second or 1 minute interview.

Here’s everybody I talked to on the red carpet and the pictures to prove it.

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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.