Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency won the GDC Ambassador Award.

The DeanBeat: How Anita Sarkeesian’s Feminist Frequency changed games

Some people say Anita Sarkeesian threw a bunch of rocks at the game industry. But I know that she did more than hurl stones — she also changed it for the better.

The head of the Feminist Frequency said yesterday she had decided to stop producing the firebrand videos dubbed Tropes vs Women in Video Games, which criticized sexism in the game industry.

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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.