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Joseph Olin takes executive director job at the Video Game Bar Association

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Joseph Olin, the former head of a video game professional group, has been appointed executive director of the Video Game Bar Association (VGBA), a trade group for attorneys and legal counsel focused on the games business.

Olin is the past president of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS), which puts on the Dice Summit and the Dice Awards — the equivalent of the Oscars of video games — in Las Vegas every spring. During his tenure at the AIAS, Olin became a well-known spokesman for video games, and he helped grow the AIAS membership to more than 20,000 accredited gamemakers.

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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.