Drexel University's team at the Intel University contest.
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Intel University names the top college game projects at GDC 2018

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Drexel University and the University of Central Florida/FIEA won the top honors in the annual Intel University contest for best student games at the Game Developers Conference. The contest is a good place to spot the talent for the next generation of games.

Drexel’s Fling to the Finish won the prize for best gameplay in a national bake-off that pitted students from more than a dozen college teams with student game projects. The University of Central Florida/FIEA won best visual quality for Hollowed.

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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.