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Once focused on 2D mobile games, Machine Zone hires a 3D graphics expert

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Mobile game developer Machine Zone has hired industry veteran Sim Dietrich as its senior technical director of graphics technologies. His role at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based gamemaker will be to helm the client side of the platform team, helping to speed and scale up game development.

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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.