Shawn Layden at PSX in 2015.
Shawn Layden at PSX in 2015.
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Shawn Layden interview — How diversity can save gaming as it faces labor shortages

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Shawn Layden had a long career at Sony, and now he gets to offer advice to companies like Streamline Media Group as they navigate the shoals of the game industry.

And so I thought it would be a good idea to get Layden’s advice on a wide variety of subjects in a fireside chat at the recent Devcom game developer event during the recent online-only Gamescom show.

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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.