Glu CEO Nick Earl on ‘leaning in’ for creativity
Nick Earl has been trying to lead a creative transformation at Glu Mobile for the past two-and-a-half years since he joined the mobile game company...
SuperData Research: Games will lead the growth of entertainment
As traditional entertainment struggles to find its place in a new digital world, video games prosper and have evolved into a mainstream form of...
Riot Games moves to establish League of Legends as a lasting esport
The owners of League of Legends professional esports teams met in Miami recently, where they contemplated the future of esports based on the popular...
Chris Hecker’s SpyParty gets started after 8 years in development
Most games don’t take eight years to make. But Chris Hecker’s SpyParty is unique. With the tiniest of teams, Hecker designed and made his dream game...
EA Mobile senior vice president Mike Verdu resigns
Electronic Arts senior vice president Mike Verdu has resigned from the company, GamesBeat has learned. That’s a significant departure for one of the world’s...
The DeanBeat: What we learned about the future of games this week
Each year, we hold our GamesBeat Summit event to gather the best thinking about where gaming is going. This week, at our fourth annual...
Fortnite’s long outage is a lucky break for just-launched rival Radical Heights
Fortnite just weathered an emergency maintenance outage that last more than half a day. Epic Games apologized and said that issues related to logging...
Thanks for coming to GamesBeat Summit 2018: The Future of Games
Thank you to those who came to GamesBeat Summit 2018. We had 264 attendees, compared to about 200 in our first summit in 2015....
Sansar social VR launches on HTC’s Viveport with more Ready Player One content
Sansar is a social VR platform from Linden Lab, the maker of the Second Life virtual world. And today, Sansar is now available as...
Fortnite servers down for emergency maintenance (Updated)
Epic Games announced that its Fortnite game servers are down for emergency maintenance upgrades. That could be an expensive problem if it lasts much...