The DeanBeat: Why I do what I do

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 31, 2017
Updated June 19, 2025
7 min

I enjoy writing about the game industry, and sometimes I write 10 stories in a day. This is actually the 13,986th story that I have written in nine years at VentureBeat. That comes out to about 29 stories a week. Every day, I write until I drop.

I could write more stories per day in the future, as artificial intelligence is making great progress. Maybe someday robots can do some of my work for me. People call me a robot anyway, because I do so many stories. Once in a while, I write about me.

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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.