We’re grateful for a celebration of gaming at GamesBeat Next | The DeanBeat

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 20, 2023
Updated June 18, 2025
6 min

I’m ready to see a lot of gaming people again and so GamesBeat Next is coming just in time for me. Things are different this time so I thought I’d fill you in.

On Monday (October 23), we’ll kick off with registration opening at 1 p.m. Pacific time. We’ll likely cut registration off at 11 a.m. on Monday as we’re close to being sold out. The event is taking place across October 23 and October 24 at Convene, 40 O’Farrell Street in San Francisco. (You can use this code, deangbn2325, for a 25% discount). The updated agenda is here.

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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.