Save the date: GamesBeat Summit is May 3-4, and GamesBeat 2016 is August 1-3

We’re about 18 days away from GamesBeat 2015. But we wanted to let you know when our next big events are coming.

GamesBeat Summit 2016 is May 3-May 4 at the Cavallo Point resort in Sausalito, California. It’s intimate, invitation-only event for the GamesBeat community, with about 180 CEOs, executives, investors, venture capitalists, marketers, developers, and other notable names in gaming. We’ll gather the right people in the room so you can do deals, strategize, and network.

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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.