[From left to right] Neha Nair, Elizabeth Sampat, Zoe Quinn, and Donna Prior speak at a Game Developers Conference 2015 panel.
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Zoe Quinn and other female game developers speak out against harassment

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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SAN FRANCISCO — Before a crowded room of their peers today, four women from the game industry stood up and spoke out about the online and real-world harassment they have received and what they have done about it.

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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.