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The DeanBeat: Walking the line with unpopular video game causes (update)

Update: This story includes corrected facts from additional reporting.

Sometimes it’s impossible to enforce your legal rights and keep your good standing in the community of gamers. And maybe it’s impossible to figure out who really stands for gamers when companies go to war with each other, with billions of dollars at stake.

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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.