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The DeanBeat: My picks for the best of E3 2015

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LOS ANGELES — Our GamesBeat team saw more games than ever at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. We’ll have our team’s best of E3 votes next week, but I always like to highlight my favorite games and technologies at gaming’s biggest industry trade show, which drew 52,000 people to the Los Angeles Convention Center this week.

The game industry is always evolving, and this encourages me. This year’s big trends included strong female characters. Powerful female leads headline Horizon: Zero Dawn, Hellblade, ReCore, Assassin’s Creed, and even Electronic Arts’ soccer game, FIFA 16, which included women’s teams for the first time.

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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.