Dean Takahashi - Lead Writer, GamesBeat - VentureBeat

Dean Takahashi is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist for more than 28 years, and he has covered games for 21 years. He has been at VentureBeat since 2008. 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 and GamesBeat Summit conferences. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Stories by Dean Takahashi

Bad Yolk is a new game studio in Uppsala, Sweden.

Bad Yolk opens studio in Sweden with former Machine Games developers

Dean Takahashi July 23, 2019 10:55 AM

League of Legends

SuperData: League of Legends, Fortnite, and Honor of Kings rule June game rankings

Dean Takahashi July 23, 2019 10:25 AM

The art at Gen.G's esports training facility in L.A.

Gen.G completes 13,000-square-foot esports training facility in Los Angeles

Dean Takahashi July 23, 2019 9:00 AM

Whistle makes wearables for your pets.

Whistle launches pet wearables for tracking location, health, and safety

Dean Takahashi July 23, 2019 5:30 AM

Morpholio Board AR shows off Knoll furniture in augmented reality.

Morpholio and Theia Interactive launch AR for home design

Dean Takahashi July 23, 2019 3:00 AM

The Republic of Gamers Phone II.

Tencent reveals Republic of Gamers Phone II, with high-end features for mobile gamers

Dean Takahashi July 23, 2019 3:00 AM

Supercell

Supercell pulls its mobile games from Vietnam

Dean Takahashi July 22, 2019 4:52 PM

Left Behind III on Antstream

Tencent invests in Antstream Arcade retro-game streaming platform

Dean Takahashi July 22, 2019 4:01 PM

Nintendo sued over ‘drift’ flaw in Joy-Con controllers

Dean Takahashi July 22, 2019 3:45 PM

Pikachu in the new game.

Tencent partners with The Pokémon Company to develop new games

Dean Takahashi July 22, 2019 3:05 PM

UNESCO is holding an event in India on using digital tech for peace and sustainability.

UNESCO explores digital tech and games for ‘more peaceful and sustainable societies’

Dean Takahashi July 22, 2019 11:55 AM

Crusaders of Light from NetEase.

NetEase opens game studio in Montreal as part of global expansion

Dean Takahashi July 22, 2019 10:35 AM

The Nissan Leaf Plus sells for a starting price of $36,550.

Review

Nissan Leaf SL Plus review: How the best-selling electric car’s tech stacks up

Dean Takahashi July 22, 2019 7:15 AM

Scopely addresses fan protest in The Walking Dead: Road to Survival mobile game

Dean Takahashi July 21, 2019 10:25 AM

Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a co-op shooter that features B.J. Blazkowicz’s daughters.

How Wolfenstein: Youngblood takes a lighter approach to killing Nazis

Dean Takahashi July 20, 2019 2:22 PM

Hover ships are a feature of Star Citizen alpha 3.6.

Star Citizen Alpha 3.6: Hover ships, space stations, and the law warp in

Dean Takahashi July 19, 2019 12:00 PM

Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus showed a Nazified America.

The DeanBeat: Would politics make video games better?

Dean Takahashi July 19, 2019 8:00 AM

The moon landing, reproduced.

Nvidia reproduces the moon landing with real-time ray tracing

Dean Takahashi July 19, 2019 6:00 AM

Sky lets you soar in the clouds almost immediately.

Thatgamecompany’s Sky: Children of the Light launches on iOS

Dean Takahashi July 18, 2019 4:10 PM

Kongregate now owns Bit Heroes

Kongregate acquires Bit Heroes, a dungeon-crawling RPG for PC and mobile

Dean Takahashi July 18, 2019 9:00 AM

Tim Willits is leaving id after 24 years, after the next QuakeCon.

Id Software leader Tim Willits will leave after QuakeCon

Dean Takahashi July 18, 2019 8:53 AM

Skillz has a game dev challenge for the summer.

Skillz launches $25,000 contest for mobile esports game devs

Dean Takahashi July 18, 2019 7:00 AM

Sweet Escapes comes from the makers of Cookie Jam.

Sweet Escapes comes from Cookie Jam veterans at Redemption Games

Dean Takahashi July 18, 2019 6:15 AM

Intel and SAP are teamed up in the data center.

Intel and SAP broaden datacenter tech partnership

Dean Takahashi July 18, 2019 5:00 AM

St. Noire is an Alexa-based murder mystery board game.

Nolan Bushnell reveals Alexa-powered murder mystery board game St. Noire

Dean Takahashi July 18, 2019 4:30 AM

Shadow's Edge asks kids with chronic conditions to bring life back to a city.

Exclusive

Shadow’s Edge adventure game helps kids cope with chronic disease

Dean Takahashi July 17, 2019 8:35 AM

Horizon's SkyWeaver will have 300 cards at the outset.

Horizon Blockchain Games raises $3.75 million and debuts SkyWeaver online trading card game

Dean Takahashi July 17, 2019 7:00 AM

MTG

MTG invested $11 million in 7 startups in the first half of 2019

Dean Takahashi July 17, 2019 5:00 AM

Sarah Brown (left) and Lora Haddock of Lora DiCarlo, maker of the Ose sex toy, at Showstoppers.

How CES is getting back on track with sexual innovation and diversity

Dean Takahashi July 16, 2019 10:05 PM

Call of Duty Endowment

Call of Duty Endowment: Fans can support veterans with new Black Ops 4 DLC

Dean Takahashi July 16, 2019 10:00 AM

Ubisoft's Uplay+ titles.

Ubisoft reveals over 100 games for its Uplay+ subscription gaming service for September

Dean Takahashi July 16, 2019 9:00 AM

CEO of Pole to Win

Pole to Win International expands Montreal game and tech outsourcing studio

Dean Takahashi July 16, 2019 8:00 AM

100 Thieves' leaders: CEO Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag (left) and John Robinson, COO.

100 Thieves raises $35 million for esports teams and L.A. headquarters

Dean Takahashi July 16, 2019 7:00 AM

Arm is becoming flexibile in how it charges its customers.

Arm launches Flexible Access business model for agile chip design

Dean Takahashi July 16, 2019 6:00 AM

Methinks gives you access to hundreds of thousands of test subjects for market research.

Methinks raises $7 million for DIY platform for qualitative market research

Dean Takahashi July 16, 2019 4:00 AM

NetEase has made a strategic investment in Behaviour Interactive.

NetEase invests in Dead by Daylight maker Behaviour Interactive

Dean Takahashi July 15, 2019 6:35 PM

FIFA 2020 and Megan Rapinoe? 1,100 fans petition EA to put women’s soccer star on cover

Dean Takahashi July 15, 2019 1:55 PM

Sources: Blackstone will buy mobile video ad firm Vungle for $750 million; founder lawsuit settled

Dean Takahashi July 15, 2019 12:25 PM

Surrogate is a new reality game studio in Finland.

Surrogate raises $2 million for ‘reality’-focused games and video streaming

Dean Takahashi July 15, 2019 11:25 AM

Sign at CES 2019.

CTA: U.S. consumer tech sales will grow 2.2% to a record $401 billion in 2019

Dean Takahashi July 15, 2019 8:45 AM

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