Ammar Zaeem grew up playing games in Pakistan and created a game studio with his brothers.
Ammar Zaeem grew up playing games in Pakistan and created a game studio with his brothers.
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GamesBeat Summit 2018 lightning talks: From making games in Pakistan to building communities

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Our recent GamesBeat Summit 2018 event featured an eclectic mix of lightning round talks, where our speakers were challenged to give a speech about something compelling in just five minutes.

It’s not easy to make a compelling point in a talk with a five-minute deadline, enforced by our moderator Colin Campbell, senior reporter for Polygon. But we heard interesting talks, such as the opening speech from Royce Disini, founder and president of Mobcrush. He spoke about how Mobcrush’s vision is to enable more people to make a living by livestreaming games — not only on mobile but across all social channels at the same time.

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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.