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Time to celebrate Pixels to Pop Culture at The Game Awards | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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We’re in that final push of the year. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is launching today as a coda to an incredible year in games. We want to celebrate it with you and we can’t think of a better time to do our next GamesBeat event under the theme Pixels to Pop Culture than December 7, the day of The Game Awards. Or, as many people believe, the day that we’re going to see the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI.

We’ve seen our share of tough news this year with raging wars and mean geopolitics. We have seen our community harmed by layoffs in the game industry, and related troubles with the long actors strike and writers strike that are finally coming to a close. We’re not out of the woods yet by any means. But before the year is over, I think we should recognize what a phenomenal year we’ve had.

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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.