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The DeanBeat: The game industry’s struggle with light and darkness

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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SAN FRANCISCO — Today is the last day of the 2015 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and my old bones are weary from a full week of walking. But my spirit is rejuvenated because I see a bright future for games and a lot of passion and creativity in the people who build them. I am hopeful about the innovation I’ve seen this week and about the culture of empathy and compassion that has been set up in opposition to the Internet’s toxic assault on gaming’s women.

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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.