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The DeanBeat: The top 10 takeaways from Casual Connect

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Casual Connect was a fascinating conference with more than 250 speakers last week, all talking about the leading edge of games on social, mobile, and online platforms. It’s tough to summarize the patterns in this vast and chaotic industry. But it was fun and illuminating to hear so many speakers parse the market and reveal new perspectives and strategies.

The speakers made me think about the theme of Total World Domination, or global gaming, at our upcoming GamesBeat 2014 conference on Sept. 15-16 in San Francisco. Competitors are now stepping up and realizing that they have to look at gaming from a lot of different perspectives — or get checkmated by an adversary. Is your strategy a sound one?

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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.