Geoff Keighley at The Game Awards 2024.
Geoff Keighley at The Game Awards 2024.
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The best of The Game Awards and the redemption of Geoff Keighley | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Geoff Keighley redeemed himself with his tenth anniversary show for The Game Awards. It was an evening full of memorable moments, new game trailers and well-deserved awards.

I was in the Peacock theater for more than three hours to witness it all on Thursday night. We held our own GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games event on the same day, but I managed to churn out 17 stories on the day of gaming’s biggest celebration.

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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.