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Tracy Fullerton becomes director of USC's game program

Tracy Fullerton, a game designer and longtime professor at the University of Southern California, has become the first-ever director of USC Games.

Fullerton serves as director of USC’s Game Innovation Lab and is the chair of the USC Interactive Media & Games Division at the School of Cinematic Arts at USC. She joined USC in 1999. Her recent game was Walden: A Game, a simulation of Henry David Thoreau’s experience living at Walden Pond in Concord, Mass.

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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.