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The DeanBeat: Indie game studios will ensure that Seattle has a long future in games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Disclosure: The organizers of the Power of Play event paid my way to Seattle, where I moderated a session. Our coverage remains objective.

SEATTLE — The community of independent game developers is thriving in Seattle. I got a good look at it over the past couple of days at the Washington Interactive Network‘s seventh annual Power of Play conference. It’s big enough that the community is fueling itself, and that’s a formula that will work in the long term.

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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.