GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi on stage.
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From GamesBeat 2016: What comes after Pokémon Go and the state of games today

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I had a chance to deliver the opening speeches at our AR/VR day and the GamesBeat 2016 opening sessions. I’ve condensed those two speeches in to this single post. Please enjoy. 

Welcome to GamesBeat 2016. This is our ninth annual event, which, in Star Wars terms, means it’s the end of our third trilogy. The nice thing about each GamesBeat, I think, is that it isn’t the same old movie over and over.

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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.