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Meet the respectable (and wacky) emcees for GamesBeat 2014

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We’re pleased to announce our emcees for GamesBeat 2014, our sixth annual game-industry conference that takes place Sept. 15 and Sept. 16 at the Parc 55 Wyndham Hotel in San Francisco.

Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Securities
Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Securities.

Dan “Shoe” Hsu, editor-in-chief of GamesBeat and I will once again be the hosts for the event, and we’ll tackle emcee duty for part of the time. But, we’ve also signed up the most-quoted and most-quotable video game analyst in history, Michael Pachter, managing director at Wedbush Securities.

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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.