Scott Jones is creator of Heavily Pixelated.
Scott Jones is creator of Heavily Pixelated.
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After brush with death, game journalist Scott Jones creates Heavily Pixelated podcast

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 17 min

Veteran TV host and game journalist Scott Jones has had a lot of challenges in his life. None more so than in 2014, when he had a series of strokes that incapacitated him. It was a brush with death, and after it, he decided to think about doing something more meaningful.

The result is the Heavily Pixelated podcast, which focuses on stories about gamers and their most vulnerable moments, whether it’s the result of divorce, illness, or heartbreak — and how video games helped them get through that time.

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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.