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Women bring down the house at GDC

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Female game developers have had a roller-coaster year, with issues of sexism, diversity, and media bias coming into focus in a sharper way than ever before. On Wednesday, those veteran women developers let a lot of emotion loose in a session entitled 1ReasonToBe at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. The response wasn’t outrage. It was a standing ovation.

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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.