Martin Rae of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
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Game academy leader Martin Rae leaves post for VR industry job

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Just ahead of the Dice Europe event, Martin Rae said in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat that he is leaving his job as president of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS).

The AIAS is an elite group that puts on the Dice Summit and Dice Awards events, which make a big splash every year with talks and awards for the top talent in the game industry. Rae has run the AIAS for six years, but he said he decided to return to Seattle where his family is based and take a job as a business development leader at Vreal, a virtual reality livestreaming startup headed by Todd Hooper.

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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.