Ted Price, CEO of Insomniac Games, and Mike Gallagher, CEO of the Entertainment Software Association.
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Why Insomniac boss Ted Price stands against Trump’s travel ban and game censorship

Ted Price, CEO of Insomniac Games, has never been shy about expressing his opinions. He spoke out against the travel ban, and he talked about leadership with Mike Gallagher, CEO of the Entertainment Software Association.

For more than two decades, Price has led the maker of games such as Ratchet & Clank and the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man video game. He had to help defend the industry against censorship efforts on First Amendment grounds, and in January he showed what it was like to be a leader when he created a YouTube video to protest President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

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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.