Left to right: Riz Virk, Neal Stephenson and Dean Takahashi at GamesBeat Next 2024.
Left to right: Riz Virk, Neal Stephenson and Dean Takahashi at GamesBeat Next 2024.
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How gaming can get back to balanced growth | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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This week, we had 42 sessions and 97 speakers at our GamesBeat Next 2024 event. And many of them spoke around our theme of getting the game industry back to growth. Thank you all for coming and listening.

David Glass and I came up with the theme months ago on the hope that the game industry, which has seen 2.5 years of layoffs (with 33,000 jobs eliminated), would return to growth. But during the course of the day-and-a-half event, I began to realize what it really meant.

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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.