Dean Takahashi, Author at 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

Eve: Aether Wars tech demo squeezed 10,000 ships in a battle.

Why CCP Games crammed 14,274 spaceships into an Eve Online battle

Dean Takahashi March 25, 2019 6:30 AM

Minh Le is helping Pearl Abyss get the guns right in a new game.

Minh ‘Gooseman’ Le shares how to get the guns right in shooters

Dean Takahashi March 24, 2019 10:25 AM

Mike Ambinder and Gabe Newell (right) of Valve.

Valve psychologist explores controlling games directly with your brain

Dean Takahashi March 24, 2019 8:45 AM

Lual Mayen grew up as a refugee in Uganda. And now he is a game developer.

Lual Mayen: From refugee to game developer

Dean Takahashi March 23, 2019 12:10 PM

Hellcouch gets you off the couch.

Hellcouch — Your butt releases demons trapped in a couch

Dean Takahashi March 23, 2019 10:25 AM

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, has nearly 7 million developers for the Unity 3D engine.

John Riccitiello interview — Is Epic buying Unity’s developers?

Dean Takahashi March 22, 2019 10:05 AM

Phil Harrison runs Stadia at Google.

The DeanBeat: Why Phil Harrison joined Google to launch the Stadia cloud gaming platform

Dean Takahashi March 22, 2019 8:00 AM

Lual Mayen, maker of Salaam and Wahda.

Rami Ismail’s last #1ReasonToBe panel showcases the world’s inspired game devs

Dean Takahashi March 22, 2019 7:05 AM

Steam is going to let you know what your friends are playing.

Valve spruces up the Steam store with better social features, networking, and reach

Dean Takahashi March 21, 2019 12:45 PM

The WarDucks team

WarDucks raises $3.8 million for augmented reality game studio

Dean Takahashi March 21, 2019 2:00 AM

Meg Jayanth hosted the Independent Games Festival.

Independent Games Festival begins with emotional talk about Christchurch

Dean Takahashi March 20, 2019 7:55 PM

Epic Games Store is coming.

Epic Games Store gets off to a good start with millions of free downloads

Dean Takahashi March 20, 2019 10:38 AM

Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, and Kim Libreri, CTO.

Epic CEO on 250 million Fortnite players, digital humans, and $100 million dev fund

Dean Takahashi March 20, 2019 10:25 AM

Detroit: Become Human starts with Connor the police negotiator.

Quantic Dream will launch its titles on PC via Epic Games Store

Dean Takahashi March 20, 2019 10:22 AM

A friendly Orc in Lineage 2: Revolution.

Netmarble’s Lineage 2: Revolution crossed $1 billion in revenue in first year

Dean Takahashi March 20, 2019 10:16 AM

Troll takes advantage of real-time ray tracing.

Epic Games shows off amazing digital human technology with Troll demo

Dean Takahashi March 20, 2019 9:56 AM

Rebirth is an animation.

Quixel demonstrates animated scenes that look like landscape photos

Dean Takahashi March 20, 2019 9:48 AM

Epic Online Services is free for devs.

Epic Games makes online services available for free to game devs

Dean Takahashi March 20, 2019 9:40 AM

Epic Games is giving out $100 million in Epic MegaGrants, with no strings attached.

Tim Sweeney announces $100 million Epic MegaGrants fund for game developers

Dean Takahashi March 20, 2019 9:37 AM

Nate Mitchell, cofounder of Oculus, shows off the Oculus Rift S.

Nate Mitchell interview — Why Facebook built the Oculus Rift S headset for the PC

Dean Takahashi March 20, 2019 8:01 AM

Oculus Rift S

Oculus Rift S will debut soon as $400 sequel to the PC-based Rift VR headset

Dean Takahashi March 20, 2019 8:00 AM

Jade Raymond at Stadia launch.

Jade Raymond will head Google’s own game studio, Stadia Games and Entertainment

Dean Takahashi March 19, 2019 11:03 AM

Erin Hoffman-John of Google shows split-screen games.

Google’s Stream Connect tech for Stadia will bring back split-screen games

Dean Takahashi March 19, 2019 10:59 AM

Google's GDC event

Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming platform to play games anywhere

Dean Takahashi March 19, 2019 10:20 AM

Sinespace is holding a FPS level design contest

Sinespace teams up with Unity to sell do-it-yourself virtual world SDK

Dean Takahashi March 19, 2019 9:00 AM

Jordan Lee, Julia, and Heather of Dorian.

Exclusive

Dorian raises $2 million for immersive fiction app

Dean Takahashi March 19, 2019 7:00 AM

Netgear's latest WiFi 6 Nighthawk router.

Netgear debuts Tri-band Wi-Fi 6 router so the whole family can binge-watch

Dean Takahashi March 19, 2019 5:30 AM

The average U.S. consumer subscribes to three video streaming services.

Deloitte: U.S. consumers piece together their personalized entertainment experiences

Dean Takahashi March 18, 2019 9:01 PM

Lorne Lanning shows off Oddworld Soulstorm at Unity event.

Oddworld: Soulstorm visuals debuted at Unity event

Dean Takahashi March 18, 2019 6:25 PM

Activision shows Call of Duty Mobile.

Activision shows off Call of Duty Mobile at Unity GDC event

Dean Takahashi March 18, 2019 5:45 PM

AR Foundation snapshot.

Unity’s AR Foundation enables developers to publish AR apps on both iOS and Android

Dean Takahashi March 18, 2019 5:00 PM

Genvid is working with Project Eleusis

Genvid showcases interactive game stream partners and deal with Limelight

Dean Takahashi March 18, 2019 9:00 AM

Beat Saber

Beat Saber will debut on the Oculus Quest wireless VR headset

Dean Takahashi March 18, 2019 8:00 AM

Khronos Group has all the big players supporting its OpenXR standard.

Khronos Group releases early OpenXR spec for AR and VR hardware standards

Dean Takahashi March 18, 2019 6:02 AM

Danny Bilson is the head of USC Games.

Danny Bilson to lead USC Games into the interactive future

Dean Takahashi March 18, 2019 6:01 AM

Reikon Games' Ruiner is a recipient of an Unreal dev grant.

Epic Games awards $500,000 in final Unreal Dev Grants

Dean Takahashi March 18, 2019 6:00 AM

Rumpus is a new visual sharing application from Oblong Industries.

Oblong introduces Rumpus visual collaboration tool for virtual teams

Dean Takahashi March 18, 2019 3:00 AM

Synaptics' touchscreen tech is used in this automotive display.

Synaptics CEO on how touch, AI, and sensors are giving us smart edge devices

Dean Takahashi March 17, 2019 11:15 AM

The diner scene in Ralph Breaks VR.

Ralph Breaks VR hands-on — Going inside a 3D animated movie at The Void

Dean Takahashi March 17, 2019 10:25 AM

Palmer Luckey (right) delivers the first Oculus Rift.

Oculus Rift: The inside story

Dean Takahashi March 17, 2019 8:45 AM

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