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GameStop evangelizes the big games of the fall

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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GameStop is always bullish on video games. But this year looks better than usual because there are so many new intellectual properties as well as regular installments such as the newest Call of Duty: Black Ops III, according to Eric Bright, director of merchandising at GameStop.

Bright is one of the biggest evangelists for gaming at GameStop. He’s like the booster of boosters. But we used our chance to interview him to pull out his own personal views on who is going to have the best results this year. Triple-A games are having a great revival, even amid global growth for online and mobile games.

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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.