Technology Archives

Posted inin Technology

Microsoft reports $35.0 billion in Q3 2020 revenue: Azure up 59%, Surface up 1%, and LinkedIn up 21%

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 29, 2020
3 min

Microsoft today reported earnings for its third fiscal quarter of 2020, including revenue of $35.0 billion, net income of $10.8 billion, and earnings per...

Continue Reading
3 min

Posted inin Technology

Exploding Kittens CEO: We need ‘air gapped’ game design

Posted byby Jason Wilson
April 29, 2020
2 min

A physical game night, whether it be over games of Monopoly, Go Fish, or Exploding Kittens, provides a connection with others that is more...

Continue Reading
2 min

Brian Bowman of Consumer Acquisition gives a lesson in Facebook advertising.

Posted inin Technology

Brian Bowman: Why it’s so hard to beat Facebook’s automated control video ads

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 28, 2020
4 min

Facebook advertisers may spend a lot of money trying to come up with new kinds of ads for games and other apps, but it...

Continue Reading
4 min

Posted inin Technology

How to watch GamesBeat Summit 2020

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 28, 2020
1 min

GamesBeat Summit starts today, and it features two stages of presentations, conversations, and panels about the business of video games. And since we are...

Continue Reading
1 min

Posted inin Technology

Opera Event raises $5 million to connect advertisers and esports influencers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 23, 2020
1 min

Opera Event has raised $5 million for its unified influencer platform, which connects advertisers and influencers. Antera led the round, with participation from previous...

Continue Reading
1 min

Posted inin Technology

DeepMind’s AI studies game players to exploit weaknesses in their strategies

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 23, 2020
2 min

In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, scientists at Alphabet’s DeepMind propose a new framework that learns an approximate best response to players within games...

Continue Reading
2 min

Posted inin Technology

Disruptor Beam is now Beamable, pivots from making games to helping games make money

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 21, 2020
2 min

Disruptor Beam has changed its name to Beamable and pivoted to making a technology platform that enables mobile game developers to scale, monetize, and sustain...