Dean Takahashi opens GamesBeat Summit Next 2022.
Dean Takahashi opens GamesBeat Summit Next 2022.
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GamesBeat Summit Next 2022: Dean Takahashi’s metaverse monologue

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 8 min

Thank you all so much for coming to our event to celebrate gaming. You could be at home, wearing a skull mask and playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. I’m so happy you chose to come here in person. And by doing so, by being here with your friends and colleagues, you have made a statement. And that is, the metaverse doesn’t quite work yet.

Perhaps a reflection of that is our fifth Women in Gaming breakfast, which we proudly held this morning. The first three times we did this breakfast, we had no food. It turns out that breakfast in the metaverse really sucks in that way. But we saw it as a place where women got food for thought, and they could drink from the well of inspiration.

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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.