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What was a game guy doing in the White House?

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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LAS VEGAS — Mark DeLoura just spend an amazing 18 months at the White House, where he worked alongside brilliant people, worked crazy hours, and did it all for a government paycheck. What may surprise all of those House of Cards and West Wing fans is that he’s a game developer.

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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.