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Ex-IGDA chief Jen MacLean joins Amazon Game Tech to run business development

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Jen MacLean, former head of the International Game Developers Association, has joined Amazon Game Tech as head of worldwide business development.

MacLean will join Amazon to work with small and mid-size game developers. She was previously the executive director at the IGDA, and she has worked her entire career addressing the needs of game developers.

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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.