We received dozens of quality startup applicants to the GamesBeat 2014 Who’s Got Game Innovation Showdown, one of the highlights of VentureBeat’s sixth annual gaming conference (Sept. 15-16 at the Parc 55 Wyndham Hotel in San Francisco).
Of our three emcees, Shoe was the straight man.
We’ve narrowed the pool down to seven finalists who will present their innovative products or services on stage on day two of GamesBeat 2014. They’ll each have 5 minutes to sell our expert panel of judges on how their companies embody, enable, or amplify the very best new ideas in and around gaming. The winner will get to go through a bootcamp training at accelerator YetiZen. For more information please visit www.yetizen.com/bootcamp.
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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.
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