Medicinal Media is a new publication about the benefits of gaming and other media.
Medicinal Media is a new publication about the benefits of gaming and other media.
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Medicinal Media highlights links between games and healing

DeepWell Digital Therapeutics (DTx) cofounder Mike Wilson has started Medicinal Media, a nonprofit group and media publication that highlights the connection between games and healing.

Funded by Mike Wilson and his wife Melissa Wilson, the nonprofit will serve as an independent journalistic resource shining a light on games that can help people with mental health and more. It goes beyond what DeepWell is doing in making its own games for mental health and hopes to cover the entirety of efforts in this direction.

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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.