God of War: Ragnarok

My favorite games of 2022 | The DeanBeat

This year was a busy one for me. In contrast to the first couple of years of the pandemic, I was able to get out more and travel and take on a lot of work organizing conferences. That inevitably led to less gaming for me.

This year, gaming was less of an escape from our pandemic reality, and, as things opened up, there was more competition for my time. I played a crazy amount of time with Gameloft’s simple Idle Siege mobile game while traveling on the road to distant locations.

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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.