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The DeanBeat: Shooters. Zombies. Pirates. Gods. My picks for the best games of E3

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is about to fade into memory but not before I let everybody know what my favorite games were.

We had a team of six writers scouring E3 for the best games, and we had to occasionally elbow some of the 50,300 people who attended the Los Angeles event out of the way. As our GamesBeat writer Jeff Grubb pointed out, it was the year of the grappling hook. Last year, it was female heroes and companion dogs. There were plenty of strong women characters in the top games this year, and there were very few “booth babes” at the show.

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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.