Some of the thousands of show girls at ChinaJoy.
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The madness approaches: ChinaJoy trade show will draw 250K gamers to Shanghai

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I’m headed to ChinaJoy 2015, the giant game trade show in Shanghai early next week. It’s going to be hot and crowded and fascinating.

ChinaJoy 2015 is expected to draw another 250,000 attendees to the gigantic exposition center in Shanghai, where there are more than 100,000 square meters of exhibit space. By comparison, the biggest American video game trade show, the  Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), drew 52,000 people to Los Angeles in June. As you might expect, China does everything big.

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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.