Some of the Special Olympics athletes who participated in PlayVS esports.
Some of the Special Olympics athletes who participated in PlayVS esports.
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PlayVS teams up with Special Olympics to bring esports to more schools

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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PlayVS has teamed up with Special Olympics North America to offer esports to Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools.

The Los Angeles-based PlayVS focuses on bringing amateur esports to high schools and colleges. And now it will extend that to a new group of students with intellectual disabilities as part of its social inclusion initiatives.

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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.