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The DeanBeat: My favorite games of E3 2013

A swarm of new games is coming, based on new revelations last week at the 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). I didn’t see everything, but I saw as much as humanly possible. I’m excited by the innovation happening in games, and here are my favorite titles. This year’s batch include numerous brand-new intellectual properties. That’s no accident because many publishers wait until next-generation consoles arrive before they launch a new property. Many of them have been waiting for years for the launch of Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4.

It’s worth noting that this list has no Nintendo titles. While those games are fun, they aren’t always inspiring in the same way that brand-new IPs are.

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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.