Game awards shows have been singularly bad because the hosts are celebrities who don’t play games and proceed to make fun of gaming all night long at events that are the equivalent of the Oscars.
Felicia Day
But the game industry has finally wised up and named two co-hosts, Felicia Day and Freddie Wong, who are gamers at heart and, while they will likely take plenty of jabs at developers, won’t be viewed as foreign interlopers.
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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.
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