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

Dragons start as eggs and you can raise them to adults in Game of Thrones: Conquest.

Game of Thrones: How to get your post-show gaming fix

Dean Takahashi May 19, 2019 1:15 PM

Stack Up helps veterans through games.

How Stack Up uses video games to save veterans from mental illness and suicide

Dean Takahashi May 19, 2019 10:25 AM

Stanley Pierre-Louis is acting CEO of the game industry lobbying group, the ESA.

Stanley Pierre-Louis — ESA’s new chief believes that E3’s center will hold

Dean Takahashi May 19, 2019 8:45 AM

Jensen Huang goes off script in Las Vegas.

Jensen Huang interview — ‘the foundations of gaming are just fine, just fantastic’

Dean Takahashi May 18, 2019 12:12 PM

Google was all over GDC 2019.

Jack Tretton interview — Why investing in indie game startups is hot again

Dean Takahashi May 18, 2019 10:25 AM

Unconscious bias affects everyone.

Celia Hodent: Why everyone is susceptible to unconscious bias

Dean Takahashi May 18, 2019 8:45 AM

Bushnell family panel: (left to right) Jason Robar, Tyler Bushnell, Brent Bushnell, Wyatt Bushnell, Alissa Bushnell, and Nolan Bushnell.

The DeanBeat: The Bushnell family — growing up with gaming in your blood

Dean Takahashi May 17, 2019 8:00 AM

Jensen Huang of Nvidia shows off 10 GigaRay graphics card, the Quadro RTX 8000.

Nvidia CEO Jensen says ‘China looks fine’ for games and AI chips

Dean Takahashi May 16, 2019 3:01 PM

Real-time ray tracing scene on Nvidia RTX.

Nvidia’s Q1 revenues down 31% to $2.22 billion, beating modest estimates

Dean Takahashi May 16, 2019 1:42 PM

Rocket Arena

Nexon’s Rocket Arena is an accessible multiplayer shooter

Dean Takahashi May 16, 2019 8:00 AM

Join the John Wick bounty hunt in Fortnite.

Fortnite launches an in-game John Wick bounty hunt

Dean Takahashi May 16, 2019 7:01 AM

Dean Takahashi demos the Tactical Haptics Reactive Grip controller.

Tactical Haptics will launch dev kit preorders for ‘haptic controllers’ on May 29

Dean Takahashi May 16, 2019 7:00 AM

Blockchain jobs are coming.

KPMG: The top 4 skills to launch a career in blockchain

Dean Takahashi May 16, 2019 6:00 AM

TuneMoji

TuneMoji plugs musical GIFs into Twitch livestreams

Dean Takahashi May 16, 2019 3:00 AM

MainStreaming's team.

MainStreaming raises $6 million to improve online game broadcasts

Dean Takahashi May 15, 2019 9:00 PM

Unity has another Obstacle Tower Challenge.

Unity unveils round 2 of Obstacle Tower Challenge for game devs

Dean Takahashi May 15, 2019 10:00 AM

Rainbow Six: Siege eclipses $1.1 billion in bookings and 45 million players

Dean Takahashi May 15, 2019 9:25 AM

The White House is your base in The Division 2.

Ubisoft CEO foresees the day when 5 billion people play games

Dean Takahashi May 15, 2019 9:10 AM

Twitch Prime members get Crunchyroll access.

Twitch Prime subscribers get 30 free days of Crunchyroll anime service

Dean Takahashi May 15, 2019 9:00 AM

Lenovo is sponsoring Team SoloMid.

Lenovo partners with esports club Team SoloMid

Dean Takahashi May 15, 2019 8:30 AM

You can win a discount on a Nascar race ticket with Winfinite's deal with 704Games.

Exclusive

iBuypower and Toyota will train pro NASCAR drivers on simulated race tracks

Dean Takahashi May 15, 2019 8:00 AM

Nomadic's new VR location in Las Vegas.

Nomadic rolls out new mixed reality arcade in Las Vegas with Area15

Dean Takahashi May 15, 2019 8:00 AM

Arm says that the new Mali-D77 display processor can fix motion sickness.

Arm’s Mali-D77 targets barf-free, high-performance, untethered VR headsets

Dean Takahashi May 15, 2019 8:00 AM

Kahoot has acquired Poio.

Kahoot acquires reading app Poio to expand its learning platform

Dean Takahashi May 14, 2019 11:00 PM

Red Dead Online gets a major overhaul.

Red Dead Online gets overhaul with new missions, poker, and fishing

Dean Takahashi May 14, 2019 7:00 AM

Adjust measured the fastest-growing app markets.

Adjust: Indonesia, Brazil, and South Korea are fastest-growing app markets

Dean Takahashi May 14, 2019 6:00 AM

HP Omen X 2S 15 laptop has two screens.

HP debuts dual-screen Omen gaming laptop and accessories

Dean Takahashi May 14, 2019 4:00 AM

Fandom Sports

Fandom Sports will create esports social engagement platform in Helsinki

Dean Takahashi May 14, 2019 3:00 AM

Arthur Morgan rides his horse in Red Dead Redemption 2.

Take-Two’s revenues below expectations despite Red Dead Redemption 2

Dean Takahashi May 13, 2019 1:33 PM

Stanley Pierre-Louis is acting CEO of the game industry lobbying group, the ESA.

Entertainment Software Association announces Stanley Pierre-Louis as next CEO

Dean Takahashi May 13, 2019 9:30 AM

Dauntless

Dauntless arrives May 21 on Xbox One, PS4, and Epic Games Store

Dean Takahashi May 13, 2019 9:00 AM

Discord's S

Discord crosses 250 million users as it hits 4-year anniversary

Dean Takahashi May 13, 2019 8:01 AM

Virtual betting lets you wager on rounds of CS: GO.

Unikrn launches new ways to wager on esports and streamer play

Dean Takahashi May 13, 2019 8:00 AM

Flexa is enabling better money.

Flexa launches mobile app for spending cryptocurrency

Dean Takahashi May 13, 2019 7:30 AM

Oddworld: Soulstorm is full of flashy graphics and explosions.

How Lorne Lanning re-imagined Abe’s Exoddus as Oddworld: Soulstorm

Dean Takahashi May 13, 2019 7:15 AM

Oddworld: Soulstorm is a 3D sidescroller action game.

Preview

Oddworld: Soulstorm first look — An ambitious retelling of a classic anti-capitalism fable

Dean Takahashi May 13, 2019 7:00 AM

The 4K graphics of Rage 2.

Rage 2 hands-on video — the beginning of a long-awaited, crazy shooter

Dean Takahashi May 13, 2019 5:01 AM

Gabi Michel (left), senior hardware program manager with Microsoft Devices, moderated by Keisha Howard, founder of Sugar Gamers.

Making games more accessible with the Xbox Adaptive Controller

Dean Takahashi May 12, 2019 12:12 PM

Sam Kennedy (left), CEO of Tigertron, and Amy Jo Kim, founder of Game Thinking.

How video games can address climate change

Dean Takahashi May 12, 2019 10:25 AM

HTC Exodus 1s

HTC Exodus 1s will bring blockchain to more smartphone users

Dean Takahashi May 11, 2019 12:00 PM

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