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The DeanBeat: My favorite games of E3 2019

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 8 min

They should make a video game about my Journey through the 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). For the 23rd time, I bounced around like a lemming, or a pinball, between the cavernous South Hall and West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

More than 200 game companies showed off wares, and I rolled over a few feet as I once again took my journalism gear around in a backpack on wheels. I walked about 33.2 miles in the past seven days in search of the best games of E3. I made it to most of the major press events, ate too many hot dogs, and waited in a lot of lines despite my geriatric state. I went to more than 60 appointments and events, and I published 53 stories in the last seven days.

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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.