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

A PUBG moment

Gfycat for gaming lets you share your greatest GIF moments

Dean Takahashi April 25, 2018 10:00 AM

Futuur’s prediction market makes forecasting into a game

Dean Takahashi April 25, 2018 9:02 AM

Zume makes pizza while delivering it to you.

Delivery startup Zume makes its oven-equipped vans available to other food companies

Dean Takahashi April 25, 2018 9:00 AM

11-11: Memories Retold

Valiant Hearts creator revisits The Great War with 11-11: Memories Retold

Dean Takahashi April 25, 2018 8:01 AM

The VRcade Atom is smaller virtual reality arcade booth.

VRstudios makes a compact virtual reality experience with VRcade Atom

Dean Takahashi April 25, 2018 7:01 AM

Harry Potter: Hogwart's Mystery debuts on April 25.

Harry Potter: Hogwart’s Mystery opens school for witches and wizards

Dean Takahashi April 25, 2018 3:00 AM

Lumosity

Lumos Labs makes Train of Thought brain game free for a week

Dean Takahashi April 24, 2018 8:00 AM

Vungle ads are now available in the Samsung Galaxy Apps store.

Vungle takes its marketing platform to Samsung Galaxy Apps store

Dean Takahashi April 24, 2018 6:20 AM

Volition is a collectible card game based on the blockchain.

Cryptogogue unveils Volition blockchain collectible card game

Dean Takahashi April 24, 2018 6:01 AM

WeQ is

WeQ brings data science to mobile marketing with $50 million war chest

Dean Takahashi April 24, 2018 6:00 AM

Sliver.tv lets Twitch streamers keep their followers engaged with a new trivia game.

Sliver.tv launches Tilted Trivia game for Twitch esports fans

Dean Takahashi April 24, 2018 5:00 AM

Dan Shapiro, CEO of 3D laser printer company Glowforge.

Glowforge can print on wood, leather, and fabric objects

Dean Takahashi April 23, 2018 2:55 PM

Razer will pay $61 million for virtual currency firm MOL Global

Dean Takahashi April 23, 2018 9:26 AM

Arena of Valor is the Western version of Tencent's Honor of Kings.

Sumthing Else to release Tencent’s game soundtracks globally

Dean Takahashi April 23, 2018 6:00 AM

Game monetization works better on high-end smartphones.

Exclusive

Top Apple, Google, and Samsung smartphones hit game monetization records

Dean Takahashi April 23, 2018 5:00 AM

Dolores is an AI character in Westworld who achieves consciousness.

Westworld season 2 opener reinforces need for ethical AI (spoilers)

Dean Takahashi April 22, 2018 6:59 PM

Ammar Zaeem grew up playing games in Pakistan and created a game studio with his brothers.

GamesBeat Summit 2018 lightning talks: From making games in Pakistan to building communities

Dean Takahashi April 22, 2018 12:10 PM

Rand Miller, CEO of Cyan, won GamesBeat's first Visionary Award at the GamesBeat Summit 2018.

GamesBeat Visionary Award winner Rand Miller on pioneering new game experiences

Dean Takahashi April 22, 2018 7:15 AM

John Underkoffler is CEO of Oblong Industries, maker of

‘Minority Report’ adviser John Underkoffler ponders the user interfaces of the future

Dean Takahashi April 21, 2018 2:33 PM

Dennis Fong of Plays.tv (right) speaks with Ping Le of Accel at GamesBeat Summit.

Dennis ‘Thresh’ Fong on competitive gaming, then and now

Dean Takahashi April 21, 2018 12:10 PM

Osmo has hit 1 million units sold on iPads.

Exclusive

Osmo hits a million educational AR games on iPads

Dean Takahashi April 20, 2018 9:30 AM

Mike Vorhaus of Magid Advisors talks with Randy Lee of Tencent.

The DeanBeat: Tencent leads China’s domination of the global games business

Dean Takahashi April 20, 2018 8:00 AM

Ken Moss, chief technology officer at Electronic Arts, speaks with Mike Vorhaus in a fireside chat.

EA CTO Ken Moss leads 1,000 engineers building the tech for future games

Dean Takahashi April 20, 2018 6:35 AM

H1Z1's big tournament will take place on a circular stage in Las Vegas.

H1Z1 kicks off era of battle royale esports events with Las Vegas tournament

Dean Takahashi April 19, 2018 9:32 AM

Rarebits has a platform for buying and selling cryptocurrency assets.

Rare Bits raises $6 million for site where you can buy and sell CryptoKitties

Dean Takahashi April 19, 2018 9:00 AM

AMD's Zen+ architecture is the basis of the new Ryzen desktop chips.

AMD wants to steal more market share with 2nd-generation Ryzen desktop processors

Dean Takahashi April 19, 2018 8:35 AM

Three AR investors are holding a contest to identify augmented reality startups.

VCs hold contest for best augmented reality pitch

Dean Takahashi April 19, 2018 7:25 AM

TheWaveVR has closed a $6 million round for VR content creation.

TheWaveVR raises $6 million for social VR music and arts platform

Dean Takahashi April 19, 2018 6:00 AM

Call of Duty: WWII Alexa Skill gives you a personal multiplayer coach

Dean Takahashi April 18, 2018 10:00 AM

The Day The World Changed uses VR to convey the harrowing impressions of Hiroshima survivors.

The horror of the Hiroshima atomic bomb comes to virtual reality

Dean Takahashi April 18, 2018 9:35 AM

D-PARC is a blockchain PC and console game coming in 2019.

8 Circuit Studios will use blockchain to build the Metaverse

Dean Takahashi April 18, 2018 9:00 AM

(Left to right) Investor panel at GamesBeat Summit 2018: Eric Goldberg, Managing Director at Crossover Technologies; Nabeel Hyatt, general partner at Spark Capital; Greg Milken, managing director at March Capital Partners; Gordon Rubenstein, managing partner at Raine Ventures.

Where game investors are putting their money

Dean Takahashi April 18, 2018 7:25 AM

(Left to right) The Leisure Economy panelists: Adam Sessler, Co-Founder of Spiketrap; Jon "Neverdie" Jacobs, CEO of Neverdie Studios; Gio Hunt, EVP & Executive Producer of Platform Technology & Experiences at Blizzard Entertainment; Philip Rosedale, Founder & CEO of High Fidelity; Craig Donato, CBO at Roblox

The Leisure Economy: Where we all get paid to play games

Dean Takahashi April 18, 2018 6:15 AM

Nano-C is working on new nano structures for electronics and energy applications.

Nano-C raises $11.5 million for new wave of nanotech electronics and solar cells

Dean Takahashi April 18, 2018 5:00 AM

AppOnBoard lets you try out an app or game in demo form.

AppOnBoard raises $15 million to create playable demos for mobile apps

Dean Takahashi April 17, 2018 8:00 AM

PSL's team

Seattle’s PSL Ventures will invest $80 million in early-stage tech startups

Dean Takahashi April 17, 2018 4:00 AM

Guns of Boom's Trejo Tournament.

Scowling actor Danny Trejo partners with Guns of Boom

Dean Takahashi April 17, 2018 2:00 AM

McAfee explores what data is sensitive in the cloud.

McAfee: 26% of companies have suffered cloud data theft

Dean Takahashi April 15, 2018 9:01 PM

Nick Earl has been CEO of Glu for 2.5 years.

Glu CEO Nick Earl on ‘leaning in’ for creativity

Dean Takahashi April 15, 2018 2:33 PM

Joost van Dreunen talks about the future of games at GamesBeat Summit 2018.

SuperData Research: Games will lead the growth of entertainment

Dean Takahashi April 15, 2018 11:08 AM