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GamesBeat at The Game Awards features Uncharted filmmaker Ari Arad

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I’m pleased to announce another speaker for GamesBeat at The Game Awards our next event that takes place on the theme “Pixels to Pop Culture” on December 7, the day of The Game Awards.

The latest speaker is Ari Arad, president of Arad Productions, the maker of a number of game-to-movie adaptations such as Uncharted, the Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg film from 2022 that generated $407 million at the box office.

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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.