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GamesBeat speaker spotlight: Wargaming’s Victor Kislyi talks game design with Will Wright

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Victor Kislyi, the chief executive of Cyprus-based Wargaming, is one of the new leaders of the free-to-play game business. His company’s World of Tanks has more than 70 million registered players, and the company is launching World of Warplanes and World of Warships soon.

That’s why we’ve booked him for a fireside chat during our GamesBeat 2013 event on Oct. 29 and Oct. 30 at the Sofitel Hotel in Redwood City, Calif.

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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.