Dean Takahashi tries out the Haptx gloves with the HTC Vive VR headset.
Dean Takahashi demos the first-generation Haptx gloves in 2018.
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The DeanBeat: Keeping secrets and spilling them

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

The life of a journalist is complicated. It’s a craft with many ways to ply it. When we don’t do our jobs right, critics view us as paid shills for the industry. When we do our jobs well, we find out secrets and publish them, regardless of whether the companies sanction these “scoops” or not.

Much of the time, we get manufactured news from PR people who create events or press releases where we only learn what they want us to learn. In that kind of world, we fail our readers, and we might as well live in a place with no free press, with blinders covering our eyes.

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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.