Warren Spector is chief creative officer at OtherSide Entertainment.
Warren Spector is chief creative officer at OtherSide Entertainment.
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Game veteran Warren Spector raises awareness about working with bipolar condition | interview

Few game developers have been as successful and well known as Warren Spector. But in a recent LinkedIn post, Spector didn’t talk about his successes. Instead, he shared something more human and acknowledged for the first time to his peers that he is bipolar.

“What I’m about to tell you isn’t about games or game development. Not directly, anyway. Let me cut to the chase: I’m bipolar – Bipolar Disorder 2, not the more seriously life-affecting Bipolar 1. You might be more familiar with the term ‘manic-depression,’ a term which, for reasons I don’t understand, isn’t used much, if at all, anymore. To me it seems more descriptive than ‘bipolar,’ but what do I know? Bipolar it is…”

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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.