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The DeanBeat: God of War can fill you with a sense of awe

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Jason Silva, the host of the show Brain Games, gave a talk yesterday at the Promax Games conference in San Francisco. In his best motivational voice, he spoke about how moments in life can inspire a sense of awe. Those moments can make you feel rapture, stupefied amazement, wonder, rapture, or ecstasy.

“We reconfigure out mental models of the world,” he said.

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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.