Dean Takahashi, Author at GamesBeat

Ivan Fernandez Lobo and Amy Hennig at Gamelab reception.

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GamesBeat Summit: Amy Hennig, Tina Amini, and Stanley Pierre-Louis bring new perspectives

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 12, 2019
3 min

Amy Hennig tells good stories. They have engrossing plots, deep characters, and rich backdrops. And that’s one of the reasons the co-creator of games...

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3 min

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The DeanBeat: The landscape of gaming in 2019

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 12, 2019
4 min

This weekend, Disney, Electronic Arts, and Respawn Entertainment are expected to take the wraps off Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, a new video game...

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4 min

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's battle royale mode features zombies on Alcatraz.

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How Call of Duty’s Blackout battle royale is faring amid greater competition

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 12, 2019
15 min

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 made a big splash when it debuted last fall. It had the first Call of Duty battle royale...

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15 min

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s League Play is gaining traction

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 11, 2019
4 min

Esports is getting more popular than ever, and that’s ringing true with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4‘s online multiplayer play. Game studio Treyarch...

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4 min

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The outlook for investing in a more rational VR/AR market

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 11, 2019
9 min

Last week, I made my way to the Microsoft Reactor in San Francisco for the VR Arcade conference. I moderated a panel on investing in...

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9 min

Dean Takahashi tries out The Dead Must Die experience on the Magic Leap One AR headset.

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A Game of Thrones Magic Leap hands-on — Winter is coming to AR

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 10, 2019
4 min

Experimental technology has become a part of the marketing campaign for the final season of A Game of Thrones. I checked out the Magic...

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4 min

Lual Mayen grew up as a refugee in Uganda. And now he is a game developer.

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GamesBeat Summit 2019: Talks on refugees, peace, climate change, and accessibility

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 10, 2019
4 min

For 22 of his 24 years of life, Lual Mayen lived in a refugee camp in northern Uganda. His parents fled from South Sudan...

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4 min

Time to shoot a zombie in Arizona Sunshine: Rampage.

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Nomadic unveils Arizona Sunshine: Rampage for VR arcades

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 10, 2019
2 min

Nomadic has unveiled a spinoff to its virtual reality arcade first-person shooter game Arizona Sunshine. The new title is Arizona Sunshine: Rampage, and it...