The DeanBeat: E3 will bring us reboots, ‘toys to death,’ and VR madness

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 12, 2015
Updated June 18, 2025
6 min

Next week, we’ll bear witness to the enormous investments that major companies and platform makers are making into video games. I’ll try to spell out the kind of bets these companies are placing in this column.

The blockbuster console and PC game makers will show up in force among the 293 exhibitors at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo in the sprawling Los Angeles Convention Center. More than 1,500 games will be shown, including more than 100 that have never been seen before.

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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.