Dean Takahashi
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Been a journalist since 1987 and am lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. I cover games, chips, hardware, R&D, and other tech. Wrote two books on Xbox.
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Despite its beautiful Ori games, Moon Studios is called an ‘oppressive’ place to work
#Ori
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Google Pixel Buds for $159 can translate 40 languages in real-time in your ear. The Babel Fish is here.
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A good night to re-watch The Martian. After the wife finishes watching BTS videos.
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Limit Break’s 10K NFTs for DigiDaigoku were gone ‘instantly’ after Super Bowl ad via
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At its $45 billion valuation, Roblox is worth more than: Take-Two Interactive ($18.98 billion), Unity ($27.76 billion), Ubisoft ($8 billion), Electronic Arts ($37.4 billion), Square Enix ($6.6 billion), and Zynga ($10.7 billion).
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This whole notion of Gamergate 2.0 and woke policies ruining gaming and game VCs funding bad titles belies the fact of who controls industry. Women-led companies currently get about 2% of all venture capital funding. The powers that be are white men.
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Finished The Last of Us Part II for the second time and had to go for a jog.
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Big news. Sony invests $250 million in Fortnite maker Epic Games
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Very interested to see what this crew has to show tomorrow. Go Xbox
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NFT games for the planet. Untamed Planet raises $24.3M for nature-oriented NFT games
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://venturebeat.com/2022/05/05/untamed-planet-raises-24-3m-for-nature-oriented-nft-games/ via
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Back in 2001, Microsoft sold the Xbox at a loss so it could break into gaming and beat Sony and Nintendo. It lost around $125 on every console sold. It sold 24 million. Bill Gates also added more memory to the machine to make developers like Tim Sweeney happy.
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Roblox CEO podcasts about the rise of the metaverse
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Reggie gave us some of his wisdom for this story. Why Reggie Fils-Aimé joined Rogue Games as a strategic adviser
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Proud to have Phil
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Rest in peace: Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX at Microsoft, has passed away. He was one of the renegades of the empire.
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We will only have sci-fi games at the Summer Game Fest!!!!
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Halo Infinite review — 2021’s biggest game surpasses expectations
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Starcraft headlines class of 4 inductees into World Video Game Hall of Fame
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I moved my 89-year-old mother to a new memory care place today. She spent 5 years at the last one but their annual price increases finally became too much of a financial weight. Now she is nearby us, even closer. Wish us luck in the new place.
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My mother passed away on Friday night after a long struggle with dementia. She was no longer eating and she passed in her sleep without a lot of pain. I will miss her. It was inevitable and quite expected, as dementia is really just a long goodbye. She lived nearby my family…
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I’ll vote for that
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Went to rally in San Mateo to protest hate crimes against Asian Americans. It was organized by a middle school student.
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Jeri Ellsworth is very focused. Tilt Five raises $7.5 million for AR goggles for tabletop board games
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Developers will notice, and they will conclude you don't have the spine to go the distance, to finish what you started. It may save billions and make shareholders happy. But it is not the way to win an ecosystem war.
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Interoperability is possible: Web3 games Million on Mars and Sunflower Land will do cross-chain event via
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Losses added up to $4 billion in the first generation. It seemed like a huge disaster. But Microsoft soldiered on. Now Microsoft's gaming makes billions in a quarter. Microsoft also took a $1.1 billion write-off with the Xbox 360 to pay for the Red Rings of Death.
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Nice tribute to Carol Shaw, maker of games like River Raid from 35 years ago for Activision, at
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In Apple vs. Epic, the court can't figure out how to mute the audience. They're saying, "We want mobile back....I'm so poor I can't afford a console."
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This is a significant step forward. Riot Games will invest $10 million in minority-owned game studios
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My daughter finished God of War last night. We had a good conversation about the ending.
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A very different approach to making games. Yuga Labs launches 1st season of HV-MTL Forge Web3 crafting game via
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Today is my mother’s 90th birthday. She was born in Kingsburg, California. The youngest in a farming family of 11 kids.
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The Bored Apes may have an edge. How Yuga Labs hopes to get to the metaverse first with Otherside
#Otherside
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RIP. Our 16-year-old Shiba Inu/German Shepherd Kona passed on Friday. She was a loyal friend and a good guard dog, but she was ailing. We'll miss her. Anyone would be blessed to have such a member of the family.
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Meta is still spending like crazy, but it just raised prices on the Meta Quest 2 by $100 each amid the recession. The contrast with Microsoft is striking. The price increase is not the way to demonstrate to the ecosystem that you have the will to persevere.
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Sony said they put tissue paper into my PS5 box because my skillful gameplay would make people weep. (OK not true).
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Ebay is filling up with console sales. 6,578 PS5s already sold vs 4,232 Xbox Series X/S. And gamers are selling their old consoles too.
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Here's the Call of Duty Endowment's Warrior Pack for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. Gaming for a good cause.
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Geoff Keighley fills the E3 void. He launches Summer Game Fest to capture gaming’s biggest unveils via
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The DeanBeat: Why NFT game startups will win while big publishers wait for regulation
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@geoffkeighley
Geoff, the secret is out because I told people I was coming to the show for the first time.
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Hey, the best game director is here. Congrats to Hideo Kojima
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Summing it all up. Apple v. Epic — a briefing on the antitrust arguments and interesting facts
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A mother’s day treat: I get to have my mother over for dinner for the first time in over a year.
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Tech's top 5 hottest jobs, according to Randstad US.
Cloud engineers: $78,052 - $101,890
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UX/interaction designers: $80,946 - 115,946
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Bob Iger talks gaming, but not the m word. All the things Disney’s Bob Iger said about the $1.5B investment in Epic and the new Disney universe via
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Tim Sweeney would like to burn down the structure of the game industry. Tim Sweeney: Android is a fake open system, and iOS is worse via
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By comparison, Facebook/Meta has been losing close to $3 billion a quarter with its VR/metaverse division, Meta Reality Labs, as it pushes the Meta Quest 2 into the market. This is a huge ecosystem play, and it comes after spending $4 billion to acquired Oculus in 2014.
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Rant: My 84-year-old mom called Home Depot for dishwasher/disposal repair. They came, did nothing, billed $99. They opened a credit card for her. She didn't notice the bills and the late payment bill is $163. Chase has called to collect the bill. This seems a tad predatory.
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A public service announcement. Alan Wake 2 — A tardy review reminding you not to skip this gaming masterpiece
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DazzleShip introduces $Bones rewards for Broadside franchise and names CEO
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This kind of fan revival of a dead game rarely happens. Omeda raises $2.2M to relaunch Epic’s dead Paragon as Predecessor
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There's a big one. Embracer Group acquires Borderlands maker Gearbox Entertainment for $1.3 billion
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The judge is asking Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney about the metaverse right now. Ready Player One is her reference point.
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Perhaps a lesson for Elon Musk. Don't be disliked so intensely by 60 million people so much that they ditch your popular product in a single day when given an alternative.
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The coincidence! I am wearing a Nintendo shirt and stumbled on their HQ.
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@stillgray
So let's see. I post a video that says it is my "shameful" gameplay. And you leave out the caption and declare that it is shameful gameplay
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A story I was not expecting to write today. What are your reactions to this historic court ruling?
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Nothing like celebrating a birthday at Alexander's Steakhouse after finishing a big GamesBeat event. :)
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How blockchain’s unicorns see the future of NFTs and games
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I am canceling my CES trip. Sad about that as I have made this trek for more than two decades. But this will be the second time I cover it virtually. Stay safe everybody.
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Expanding the Axie universe. Sky Mavis unveils first user-generated games for Axie Infinity
#AxieInfinity
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#SkyMavis
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Ed Sheeran sings Perfect and 80,000 fans sing along at Levi Stadium
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Happy Father’s Day to all the gamers and geeks out there. I count myself lucky to be a dad. The best advice my father gave me was to find work in something I loved.
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@_Tom_Henderson_
well, now if you get stuck and fight over and over again like I do, then it stretches out.
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This is an innovative player guild. Yield Guild Games will let players earn income from NFT games
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This isn't my typical game column. It's about my mother, and the reaction to her passing, and my thanks to the people around me. Tears of the Kingdom and The Last of Us | The DeanBeat via
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My 89-year-old mom has covid for a third time. No real symptoms. She got it from fellow residents and staff in her home. I still wear a mask for her. Stay safe out there.
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Mike Morhaime gets the Honor Award at the Gamelab event in Barcelona. I moderated a retrospective with him, and his wife, daughter and other family were in the front rows. He got a standing ovation, and teared up a bit as he thanked, among others, his departed father.
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Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies
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My mother doesn’t recognize me anymore. I knew this would come, but it’s still jarring to have it happen. She has had dementia for years now and it’s taking root. She talks quite a bit of nonsense now, or so it seems that way to me.
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@therealcliffyb
@SeamusBlackley
@Meta
@GameSpot
I consider this to be one of the all-time great quotes about video games. But it's kind of dated now. Everybody does it, and now everybody talks about it.
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PR people, restrain yourselves. I got 9 embargoes for thursday.
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