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GamesBeat Summit 2023 is coming May 22-23 in Santa Monica | The DeanBeat

We’ve decided to delay our GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 3 event, originally planned for next month. We are now integrating the metaverse into our larger GamesBeat Summit 2023 event on May 22-23 in Santa Monica, CA, with a third day of virtual content.

The marketplace gave us feedback that May is better timing and that a hybrid event with in-person and virtual is the best format. Indeed, we’ve decided to add a third day of online content. Our planned virtual metaverse event content will now be folded into the in-person GamesBeat Summit.

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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.