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The DeanBeat: What to hope for at E3 — and what to worry about

What happens next week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the biggest video game trade show in the U.S., and what I wish would happen are two different things.

E3 2014 starts on Monday with Microsoft’s opening press conference, followed by Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and Sony. On Tuesday, Nintendo will show its hand in a webcast, and it has noted that its chief executive will not be attending the show on doctor’s orders. We’ll be hearing a lot of promises about a bright future for games. I want the industry to live up to them.

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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.