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The DeanBeat: Experiential Technology event shows how far VR has to go

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 17, 2017
7 min

I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in...

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7 min

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The DeanBeat: Orwell is keeping an eye on us

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 10, 2017
4 min

It was so much easier to dismiss the paranoid fantasy of George Orwell, the author of 1984, many years ago when I first read...

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4 min

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The DeanBeat: Intel University discovers the best college game projects

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 3, 2017
7 min

Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Wisconsin Stout won the top honors in the annual Intel University contest for best student game at...

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7 min

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The DeanBeat: Should you bring up Trump’s travel ban politics at a video game award event?

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 24, 2017
6 min

Video games are a great form of escapism. And the game industry celebrated them last night at the DICE Awards, the equivalent of the...

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6 min

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The DeanBeat: The esports scene keeps gaining momentum

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 17, 2017
4 min

I was drenched in the esports scene yesterday at the [a]list Summit in Los Angeles. At the event, esports companies and brands gathered to...

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4 min

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The DeanBeat: How Berlin has become more tolerant than Trump’s America

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 10, 2017
4 min

Maybe they should move the Statue of Liberty to Berlin. Seventy-two years after the fall of Adolf Hitler, the capital city of the former Nazi...

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4 min

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The DeanBeat: Announcing GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 3, 2017
3 min

We’re pleased to introduce you to our newest event GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic. It will take place...

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3 min

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The DeanBeat: How Warner Bros. rescued Avalanche Studios after Disney buried it

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 27, 2017
5 min

Disney and Warner Bros. have taken very different strategies in video games, and Avalanche Software, the decades-old Salt Lake City development studio, was caught...