Danny Bilson, Chairman USC Interactive Media and Games Division and moderated by Tina Amini, Editor-in-Chief of Games at IGN

USC Games Expo features more than 80 games and 1,200 guests

The University of Southern California will hold its second annual USC Games Expo on Wednesday to show off the top-rated game school’s student work.

Danny Bilson, head of USC Games, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the expo will feature more than 80 student games, about the same number as last year. But the guest roster is expected to grow from 800 people to more than 1,200.

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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.