The DeanBeat: The wonderful diverse world of games

It’s that time of year when I have to start making difficult choices. So many good video games are out there, and I have so little time to play them all. The fall rush is coming, and I figure now is a good time to reflect on what it all means before I get too busy.

The battle for my eyeballs started early this year with a tough August, when I had to choose between games like Hellblade, Fortnite, and Lawbreakers. This month, big games like Destiny 2 and Total War: Warhammer II arrived, and now we have Cuphead and FIFA 18 coming out today. And very soon we’ll have titles like Forza Motorsport 7, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, The Evil Within 2, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Assassin’s Creed Origins, Super Mario Odyssey, and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Then we have the big rivals, Call of Duty: WWII and Star Wars Battlefront II.

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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.