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The DeanBeat: My favorite games of E3 2021

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 11 min

I absentmindedly searched for my favorite games of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2020.

Then I remembered we didn’t have an E3 show in 2020. And it hit me how lucky we were to have an E3 2021, even though it was a stripped-down, all-digital affair this week.

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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.