Takahashi, Dean

Dean Takahashi began his career as a journalist in the late 1980s. He has worked and published in such publications as the Los Angeles Times , The Orange County Register , Dallas Times Herald and other publications. ^[one]

In 1994, Dean began working for the San Jose Mercury News as a columnist for the semiconductor industry. Here he worked until 1996. ^[one]

From 1996 to 2000, Takahashi worked as a full-time writer at the Wall Street Journal in San Francisco. ^[one]

In parallel, from February 1999 to May 2000, Takahashi materials are published in the electronic journal ZDNet . ^[2]

From 2000 to 2002, Takahashi was the senior editor of Red Herring magazine. ^[one]

In 2002, he again moved to work at San Jose Mercury News as a technology reviewer, where he wrote about new gadgets and technological innovations in Silicon Valley . ^[one]

In early 2008, Takahashi moved to work on the VentureBeat blog as a leading observer in the field of new technologies and the gaming industry, where he still works (September 2011). ^[3] Here, his materials are used and reprinted by other publications, including Business Insider ^[4] , The New York Times ^[5] and others.

In April 2002, Prima Lifestyles published the first book by Takahashi, “Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution,” which talks about the process of creating an Xbox game console with Microsoft . The book was highly appreciated by many journalists from various reputable publications. Positive book reviews were written by Jeff Keely from GameSlice, Alex Pam from the Los Angeles Times , Tom Russo from G4 Media , and Devon Hmelevsky from Dawn C . Chmielewski ) of San Jose Mercury News and other reviewers. ^[6]

At the beginning of May 2006, SpiderWorks Press published Takahashi’s second book, The Xbox 360 Uncloaked: The Real Story Behind Microsoft's Next-Generation Video Game Console, which, like the first, told the story of the design and creation of the Xbox 360 . Like the first book, this was also expected by reviewers: positive reviews were published by Next Generation Magazine , TwitchGuru (a subsection of Tom's Hardware ) and others, while Cliff Blezinski , chief designer at Epic Games , said the book was an exciting example. and at the same time impartial journalism. ^{[7] [8]}

Dean Takahashi has considerable authority in the field of new information technologies and the gaming industry.

On May 12, 2009, Takahashi was the lead speaker at the LOGIN Conference , which was held May 11-14 in Seattle. ^[9]

Also in May 2009, Takahashi in his article on VentureBeat described 12 trends that, in his opinion, will happen in the gaming industry in the near future. This article received a response in the gaming press. ^[ten]

In October 2009, Technorati journalist Eric Olsen, as part of State of the Blogosphere 2009 , interviewed Takahashi on the semiconductor industry, information security, and gaming. ^[eleven]

In March 2011, the US radio program Marketplace Interviewed Takahashi on the subject of "technology bubbles." ^[12]

On May 25, 2011, Takahashi published in VentureBeat an article entitled “How many ways can THQ's Space Marine game rip off Gears of War?” Stating that THQ’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine game is low-quality plagiarism from the Gears of game series War . " ^[13] This article caused a stormy and mixed reaction in the gaming press. ^{[14] [15]}

• Takahashi Profile on VentureBeat
• Takahashi profile and curriculum vitae on smashwords

Interview

• Dale weir. Interview with Dean Takahashi Q & A with the Author of Opening the Xbox (English) 4. GameCritics (September 18, 2002). Date of treatment September 1, 2011.
• Quang Hong. Feature: 'Gamasutra Podcast: Dean Takahashi Interview' . Gamasutra (May 17, 2006). Date of treatment September 1, 2011. Archived on May 16, 2012.
• Dean Takahashi's Interview with Chris Taylor (English) . OnLive Blog (2009). Date of treatment September 1, 2011. Archived on May 16, 2012.