The Game Business

Journalist Christopher Dring teams with Geoff Keighley to unveil The Game Business publication

Journalist Christopher Dring announced the launch of The Game Business, a new media brand dedicated to covering the game industry, with backing from Geoff Keighley.

Game journalism has been a tough place to be, with lots of layoffs that have come with similar troubles in the game industry. Dring and other journalists recently departed from GamesIndustry.biz, a similar publication owned by Gamer Network Limited, an IGN Entertainment company and subsidiary of Ziff Davis.

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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.