God of War team celebrates victory after the Game Awards.
God of War team celebrates victory after the Game Awards.
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The DeanBeat: The Game Awards show gaming’s bright future

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 3 min

The Game Awards was all over the internet last night, as the top trending item on Twitter and airing on 40 global video networks, including live coverage in China. It certainly felt more momentous than last year, with so many more world premieres of games across more than three hours of programming.

If only the Oscars were this entertaining. You see, the good thing about Geoff Keighley‘s show is that it shows you gaming’s past with the awards, but it also points to the future with the sneak peeks at next year’s games.

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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.