Martin Rae, president of AIAS
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DICE Summit to celebrate the ‘new golden age of gaming’

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The new golden age of gaming. It has a nice ring to it, and that’s why the organizers of the high-end game conference the DICE Summit are using it as their theme for next year’s conference.

“It’s really an incredibly opportunistic age for the industry as a whole,” said Martin Rae, the president of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) and an organizer of the summit, in an interview with GamesBeat. “In the past, people asked me before how you can call this a new age of gaming. I got push-back because people pointed out it was a time of turmoil and declining retail sales.”

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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.