Mike and Michael team up to do game industry consulting

It’s seems from the last few years of financial results and layoffs that the game industry isn’t at its peak when it comes to having the right strategy.

That’s why two well-known industry experts, Mike Vorhaus and Michael Pachter — I’ll call them Mike and Michael for this story — have teamed up to consult with some of the biggest companies in the industry.

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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.