The crowd at ChinaJoy 2015.
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Tokyo and Paris game shows canceled, but ChinaJoy goes ahead in August

Two more major video game shows — the Tokyo Game Show and Paris Games Week — have been canceled thanks to the pandemic, but the giant Shanghai expo ChinaJoy will take place as planned for July 31 to August 3.

The end of the physical conferences mirrors the cancellation or digitization of events such as the Game Developers Conference (now online-only in August, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (canceled), and Gamescom (now online-only) because of the coronavirus. We also moved our GamesBeat Summit event to a digital format in late April.

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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.