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Videogamer: The Film explores gaming innovation from all perspectives

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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It’s not easy to define innovation in the video game business. Developers and fans have very different ideas of what it is. So a few young filmmakers at Inaugural Films are embarking on a one-year quest to capture different views on innovation in Videogamer: The Film, An Innovative Documentary. They’re starting a Kickstarter campaign to raise $100,000 to cover the costs of travel and film production.

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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.