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The DeanBeat: Games I want to play in 2018

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I sank to the bottom of the sea in my first stab at Microsoft’s Sea of Thieves. The closed beta started this week, and I played long enough to realize I won’t play that game for very long because I don’t have any friends.

But it reminded me that we’re about to start the whole new cycle of fighting about which are the best games of the year. 2018 has a lot going for it, since so many games were pushed from 2017 into the new year. My colleagues named their list earlier, but I was too busy traveling to participate. (Those guys got it mostly wrong anyway.)

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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.