Winners of the 2023 Games for Change Awards.
Winners of the 2023 Games for Change Awards.
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Games for Change Awards show highlights the best social impact games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Games for Change has announced the winners of its 2023 awards, which celebrate the potential of games and XR experiences to drive positive change.

This year’s awards received over 400 entries from around the world, and the panel of jurors, made up of game design and development, technology, media, learning, and social impact experts, selected 10 winners across different categories, including Game of the Year, Most Significant Impact, Best Narrative, Best Learning Game, and Best XR4C Experience.

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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.