The DeanBeat: With Bushnell award, history became herstory Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 2, 2018 4 min The video game industry sought to celebrate one of its founders, Nolan Bushnell, with an award as a pioneer this week. But prominent gaming... Continue Reading 4 min
The DeanBeat: Games I want to play in 2018 Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 26, 2018 7 min I sank to the bottom of the sea in my first stab at Microsoft’s Sea of Thieves. The closed beta started this week, and... Continue Reading 7 min
The DeanBeat: Publisher shakeups, Overwatch League debut, and crypto madness — gaming’s crazy week Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 19, 2018 4 min It was another momentous week for games as I traveled to Disneyland for the Casual Connect USA 2018 event, which drew 1,400 attendees to... Continue Reading 4 min
The DeanBeat: What to expect from CES 2018 — the stupid and the good Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 5, 2018 5 min I’m expanding my horizons from games to tech next week as I head off to Las Vegas for CES 2018, the big tech trade... Continue Reading 5 min
The DeanBeat: 10 wildly inaccurate and predictable predictions for gaming in 2018 Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 29, 2017 9 min The ritual has arrived again. It’s time for me to make wildly inaccurate predictions about the future of games. This is always embarrassing for... Continue Reading 9 min
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2017 Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 22, 2017 14 min We had another wonderful year of creativity and smash hits in the $116 billion game business in 2017. My favorite games of the year... Continue Reading 14 min
The DeanBeat: The Game Awards and why game developers say ‘F*** the Oscars’ Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 8, 2017 4 min Last night’s The Game Awards had some touching, sweet, and funny moments. But Josef Fares, creator of the upcoming A Way Out from Electronic... Continue Reading 4 min
The DeanBeat: Outsiders, insiders, and manufactured outrage Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 1, 2017 6 min I felt a bit like a lab rat this week as I found that my career in game journalism — and my terribly unskilled... Continue Reading 6 min
The DeanBeat: The battle of the holiday first-person shooter games Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 24, 2017 6 min Some people are freaking out about net neutrality right now. Me, I’m deciding where to put my holiday play time. Will it be Wolfenstein... Continue Reading 6 min
The DeanBeat: The tragedy of the Star Wars: Battlefront II loot crates Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 17, 2017 5 min Electronic Arts made a great game in Star Wars: Battlefront II. But it stepped in a pile of controversy by adding an unpopular monetization... Continue Reading 5 min