Gordon Bellamy of USC and Jon Kimmich of the Software Illuminati talk at GamesBeat University.
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8 GamesBeat University videos that teach you about the game business

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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We learned a lot about gaming at our GamesBeat 2016 event a few weeks ago. And we’re still gleaning some of the lessons from those sessions. We’ve written a lot about the news that emerged from those talks, but we also had a lot of talks that were purely educational. Once again, we livestreamed a bunch of talks that we called GamesBeat University, and I thought it was worth recapping here.

If you want to get started in games the right way, you should listen to these talks. A good thing: Not everybody talked about Pokémon Go.

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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.