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The DeanBeat: Get ready for an awesome GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 event

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

I’m getting very excited about our awesome GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 event coming in just six weeks. And it feels like the metaverse — the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One — is becoming a lot more real.

We started talking about science fiction becoming reality years ago, and we staged an early metaverse event in January 2021 with 30 talks on the metaverse. And after a whirlwind year of metaverse and blockchain announcements — culminating with Facebook changing its name to Meta — we are coming back for another helping of metaverse thought leadership.

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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.