Donald Trump meets with the game industry and its foes. Mike Gallagher of the ESA is on the left, at the far end of the table.
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President Trump’s meeting on violent games pits game makers against their foes — again (updated)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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President Donald Trump met today with video game industry representatives and foes of violent video games at the White House today.

The industry is bracing for a full-scale bantering from Trump about violent video games, as many expect the president to use games as a scapegoat for school shootings and other violence in society — rather than blaming guns. Last week, Trump asked whether games were to blame for shootings such as the horrible massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

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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.