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GamesBeat speaker spotlight: Why the White House is interested in games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Mark DeLoura is the video game technologist who went to Washington.

Mark DeLoura, White House advisor on games and digital media
Mark DeLoura, White House advisor on games and digital media

A former game developer who worked at tech leadership positions at Sony, Nintendo, Google, Ubisoft, and THQ, DeLoura is now the senior advisor on digital media for the White House Office of Science and Technology. That means he’s responsible for keeping the White House informed on what is happening in the video game industry and what the government should be doing when it comes to interacting with the industry.

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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.