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The DeanBeat: The dawn of a new generation

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

The pandemic has interrupted our lives. I sincerely hope that you are all well. During this time, it seems like a small thing that physical events like the Game Developers Conference and the Electronic Entertainment Expo — and the physical version of the GamesBeat Summit — have disappeared. But as we work from home, it’s even more important to reach out to each other and connect as a community.

We’ve shifted our GamesBeat Summit Digital to an online-only event on April 28-29, and we’re keeping our theme of “The Dawn of a New Generation.” But as we planned this change in real time, we also adapted the content, as this new generation isn’t what we had in mind.

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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.