Dean Takahashi and Gina Joseph of GamesBeat.
Dean Takahashi and Gina Joseph of GamesBeat.
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Endings and beginnings: Welcome speech at the 1st independent GamesBeat Summit 2025

Well, I’m back. It feels like I just finished a 17-year journey, and now there’s a new one starting over again. As an English major, I loved to think about the last lines of the books I’ve read. Like The Great Gatsby’s ending: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

I puzzled over this line as a student. But I knew when I read the words that they were part of a great piece of literature.

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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.