Hidetaka Miyazaki and the From Software team accept the award for Game of the Year at the Dice Awards.
Hidetaka Miyazaki and the From Software team accept the award for Game of the Year at the Dice Awards.
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Inspirations and highlights from Dice Summit 2023 | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

I enjoyed many of the moments of the Dice Summit 2023 and the Dice Awards this week, from the opening talk by author Neal Stephenson, creator of Snow Crash, to the acceptance speeches at the prestigious equivalent to the Oscars of games.

It was refreshing to see people again, unfettered by a lingering pandemic, milling about in a big reunion of friends and peers. The Dice Summit is often my favorite gathering, aside from our own GamesBeat Summit events, where I see the game industry 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.