Sarah Elmaleh is a voice actress in video games and co-organizer of GameDev.World.
Sarah Elmaleh is a voice actress in video games and co-organizer of GameDev.World.
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Sarah Elmaleh: The game industry can become emotionally aware and collaborative

When voice actress Sarah Elmaleh helped Rami Ismail create the GameDev.World online-only game development conference — translated into eight languages in real-time — it was only one of a number of things she has undertaken to encourage collaboration in video games.

It’s part of an effort to make the video game industry a more emotionally aware, collaborative, and inspiring, even though it can be a harsh, tough, and competitive.

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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.