GungHo looks beyond Puzzles & Dragons — to Japan’s gaming iconoclast
GungHo Online Entertainment is in an interesting phase of its business. The game studio is no longer part of Softbank, the giant Japanese telecom company....
China’s Giant leads consortium to buy Playtika for $4.4 billion
A consortium of Chinese companies led by Giant has agreed to pay $4.4 billion for Playtika, the social casino game company in Herzliya, Israel,...
GamesBeat 2016: Our updated agenda with 105 speakers
We hope you can make it to our GamesBeat 2016 conference at the beautiful Terranea resort in Rancho Palos Verdes in Los Angeles. The...
Why we’ll soon see Pokémon-free zones
Back in 2006, I remember wondering how many people were literally walking to their doom at any given time because their eyes were glued...
GamesBeat 2016 explores how to take games between Asia and the West
China has become the biggest gaming market, surpassing the U.S. quite easily in the past couple of years. But only a handful of companies...
GamesBeat 2016 explores how to do a game publishing deal
How do you do a game publishing deal? It’s different for console, mobile, and PC games. And the new rules of digital gaming have...
Indie development studios to discuss Unreal Engine benefits at GamesBeat…lightning f-a-s-t!
This sponsored post is produced in partnership with Epic Games. Through Epic Games’ long history, it’s been behind some of the game industry’s biggest...
Uncharted 4 proved the power of first-party Sony games
The PlayStation 4 has a commanding lead in the console market, and that happened with a sparse release cadence from Sony’s first-party studios. But...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Hearthstone’s new adventure, and Pokémon can’t save Nintendo
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we check out the new Xbox One S Bluetooth controller, reports shed new details on Nintendo’s NX...
As Sonic turns 25, former Sega boss Tom Kalinske looks at gaming’s past and future
Maybe we can learn about gaming’s future by looking at its past. That’s why we’re excited to announced that our closing speaker at our GamesBeat...