Dean Takahashi | Videogame Journalist GOAT | Childhood Hero | Episode 30
5RPadTV’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month content kicks off with a Dean Takahashi interview. Considered by many to be THE preeminent videogames journalist, Dean Takahashi chats with host Raymond Padilla about why he chose to pursue a career in journalism, how the coverage of games has changed in his decades in the business, his thoughts on using AI to help write articles, the one question he always asks in interviews, advice he has to Asian Americans looking to get into videogame journalism, and more.
Full story here: https://rpad.tv/2023/05/03/dean-takahashi-rpadtv-3000-interview-aapihm/
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Timecodes
0:00 - Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
1:45 - Dean Takahashi’s path to journalism
5:02 - Choosing unusual majors for an Asian American
6:33 - Covering a triple-homicide in Dallas on Christmas Eve
9:03 - How games journalism changed over the years
12:28 - What motivates Dean to keep going?
16:23 - Changing business models in videogame journalism
21:22 - Being surrounded by the enthusiast press during events
22:44 - The Cuphead incident
25:23 - Will AI supplement or supplant writers?
29:16 - Advice for Asian-Americans that want to be games journalists
32:35 - Who would play Dean Takahashi in a movie?
33:33 - The one question Dean always asks in an interview