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The whipsaw of online and in-person gaming events | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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It feels a bit like a whipsaw we’re seeing when it comes to whether people want to go to in-person events or attend online events in gaming. And the same goes for whether they want to do some work in person or work completely remotely.

And I suspect that this answer will be with us for a long time, as to whether we want to do things online or in person: It depends.

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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.