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CNN’s biggest competition tonight is Halo 4

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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CNN has called the election in favor of President Barack Obama. GOP candidate Mitt Romney has made his concession speech, and Obama has turned a victory speech.

But it’s safe to play Halo 4 with a good conscience, as long as you voted earlier in the day. I find myself with this dilemma. Do I want to listen to the mellifluous voices of Anderson Cooper and David Gergen, or do I want to kick the Covenant’s butt? A siren song’s calling me, and I have to say it’s sorely testing my election fever.

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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.