He served as the Senior Advisor for Digital Media for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP),[2] he was Editor in Chief of Game Developer magazine, and he has held various gaming-related positions at major companies including Sony, Nintendo, Ubisoft, THQ, and Google.

DeLoura is a Game Developer's Conference Advisory Board Emeritus member[3] after having served on the board for more than ten years, and is the author of the Game Programming Gems series of books.

[6] In 2013, DeLoura was appointed to the position of Senior Advisor for Digital Media at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

[7] On September 7, 2014, DeLoura hosted the first ever "Game Jam" to be held at the White House.

Attending developers included Playmatics, Red Storm Entertainment, Rovio, GlassLab (an Electronic Arts joint project with educational institutions), the Smithsonian Institution, BrainPOP, and game industry veteran Graeme Devine.