Women in Gaming panel at Crystal Dynamics.

Women in Gaming: 100 Professionals of Play herstory book debuts

The women of the video games industry are finally getting their herstory book. Women in Gaming: 100 Professionals of Play went on sale yesterday.

Meagan Marie, the book’s author, marked the occasion by organizing a evening of panels of female gaming pioneers at the headquarters of Crystal Dynamics in Redwood City, California.

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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.