Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order

The DeanBeat: The landscape of gaming in 2019

This weekend, Disney, Electronic Arts, and Respawn Entertainment are expected to take the wraps off Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, a new video game that will explore an untold part of the Star Wars universe. It is expected to come out this fall, and it could be another sign that EA’s most valuable studio may now be Respawn, whose Apex Legends swooped in from nowhere and got 50 million users in a month.

That departure from the past — where the launch of a game or two can change the fate of a company — shows that the landscape of gaming can change at any moment, and a single company like Respawn can be the trigger behind multiple changes. That’s why we’re excited that Vince Zampella, CEO of Respawn, will speak at GamesBeat Summit 2019 in a fireside chat with Ted Price, the CEO of Insomniac Games, another company that changed the face of superhero games last year with Marvel’s Spider-Man.

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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.