Hiroko Takahashi
Hiroko Takahashi
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Tears of the Kingdom and The Last of Us | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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In the past week, I have had the unfortunate and fortunate circumstance to interact with the entirety of my social network — all the people that I’ve come across in my personal and work life.

It is funny that we think of social network messages as such trivial things. Of all the threads I’ve ever written, of all the stories I’ve done, I think these latest social network threads I will talk about here will be the ones burned in my mind. It’s like a water drop sending ripples in a still pond.

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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.