Don Daglow keeps an In Memoriam list for the game industry.
Don Daglow keeps an In Memoriam list for the game industry.
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Don Daglow memorializes those we lost in the game industry

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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As Don Daglow noticed friends and former colleagues passing away, he felt they should be remembered. And so he started keeping a log of game industry professionals who passed away.

He calls the page In Memoriam: Games industry people who have passed away. And it now has more than 700 names, with the numbers hitting the dozens every passing year. It’s one of the cultural artifacts of a young industry that is now becoming older, and the page is not unlike other artistic industries that honor their dead in some way.

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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.