Dean Takahashi on his Carnival Imagination cruise.
Dean Takahashi on his Carnival Imagination cruise.
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The DeanBeat: A few days without game journalism and a few days without gaming

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Last week I went on my summer vacation for a few days. It was a rare victory for those of you who would like to see me work less and play fewer games as well. (Yes, I know you’re out there, and you’re tired of hearing me brag that I wrote 10 stories in a day.)

You might not have noticed I wasn’t working, as I scheduled stories to run just about every day. I had a lot of interviews in reserve from my splendid trip to Barcelona. I even scheduled a DeanBeat column in the form of a transcript of Jordan Mechner’s talk at Gamelab in Barcelona. (This is why I haven’t skipped a DeanBeat column in eons.)

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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.