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What The Game Awards tells us about gaming in 2023 | The DeanBeat

Yesterday was a good day to celebrate gaming because we now know 2023 is going to be good. I know this because I watched all of the ceremonies and trailers at The Game Awards last night. From what they showed off, we can expect a whole year of celebration with awesome games.

Once again, Geoff Keighley’s awards show gave us all a crystal ball into the future, showing us a ton of new games that are coming in the next year or two. We didn’t get to see Grand Theft Auto VI or Starfield or Redfall or the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. But we did get a good volume of titles that shows the game industry is back to real productivity after hiccups in production that cause a lot of big games to get delayed. I know some of last night’s games will get delayed because it’s the nature of the beast. But some are going to come home.

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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.