The DeanBeat: Be sure to make some time for the best games of the fall

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 24, 2014
Updated June 18, 2025
8 min

With all of the internet hate out there, it seems like we’ve strayed off topic. The GamerGate controversy has taken up a lot of our attention. I think It’s time for gamers to get back to playing games and talking about them. I am guilty of failing to play games because I’ve been too busy writing about them. I’m not the only one with a time crunch, and it may be why a lot of people have moved on to casual games and lightweight mobile fare, rather than play console games that take 20 hours to play.

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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.