GamesBeat Summit Digital: Welcome to the dawn of a new generation

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 28, 2020
Updated June 20, 2025
9 min

We’ve kicked off GamesBeat Summit Digital, our first-ever online-only event for the game community. I kicked off the event with a speech about our theme, the impact of the coronavirus, our speakers, and what about gaming inspires us all in an opening speech.

All of gaming is adapting to the dramatic change brought about by the coronavirus, and we’re so grateful that gaming is one of our lifelines. There is no historical precedent for this moment, so we hope you can learn on the fly with us as we assemble the best minds in gaming to extract the lessons for both the near and the distant futures.

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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.