Call it a gradual palace coup. But the leadership of video game creators — once dominated by the makers of console video games — has made a definite shift toward digital games such as mobile, social, and online. The changes are a mirror of the transformation of the soul of the game industry amid huge turmoil.
Min Kim of Nexon America
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, which puts on the elite Dice Summit and the Oscar-like Dice Awards, is announcing several new board members from digital gaming today. Min Kim, chief executive of Nexon of America, the U.S. division of the Tokyo-based free-to-play online gaming pioneer, will become chairman of the AIAS. This kind of change is like the makers of talkies taking over from silent film creators as the stewards of the movie industry’s Oscars.
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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.
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