Dean Takahashi (left) talks with Yat Siu, chairman of Animoca Brands.
Dean Takahashi (left) talks with Yat Siu, chairman of Animoca Brands.
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Animoca Brands’ Yat Siu: The big picture view of blockchain games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Yat Siu, chairman of Animoca Brands, believes that blockchain and decentralization will revolutionize gaming. But the mainstream gamers who are supposed to benefit from it haven’t been very receptive so far. I talked with Siu about this problem in a fireside chat at our GamesBeat Summit 2022 event.

Gaming has a love-hate relationship with blockchain games and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). We’ve seen conflict among hardcore games and some traditional game devs on one side, and crypto enthusiasts and blockchain game pioneers on the other side.

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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.