Google stops Stadia game development and closes its studios
Just a bit over a year after launching its Stadia platform, Google is starting to scale back its gaming ventures. The company is closing...
Detecting 10 times more bots and stopping fraud with behavioral biometrics
Bots and fraud occur in every app, and in every vertical, said Alon Dayan, Founder and CEO, Unbotify. “In games online, this is a...
Services, not software, are the future of game enterprise tech
Over the last few years, venture investor interest in the game industry has skyrocketed. The industry is no longer just about video games; as...
The DeanBeat: Our 360-degree view of the metaverse ecosystem
I’m very proud that we were able to create an original event around the metaverse this week and that it received good attention in...
The ethics of the metaverse
Richard Bartle hopes the metaverse will be a place where we can be our best selves, and where the operators of the virtual universe...
What will it take to make good on the promise of the metaverse?
The “How to Build the Metaverse” panel during GamesBeat’s two-day all-digital metaverse event brought together speakers who are tackling the challenges in bringing the...
Microsoft’s PlayFab grows ninefold in 3 years
Three years since being acquired, Microsoft’s PlayFab division said today that its monthly active users grew nearly nine times since the software giant acquired...
How Unity is positioning itself to democratize the metaverse
“Right now we’re just at the cusp of getting to the point where a lot of technologies, a lot of concepts, are coming together,...
How pandemic socialization trends have accelerated the move into virtual spaces
What will the social graph look like this year? What is it going to look like two years from now, and how is it...
Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz creates startup Sun and Thunder to build synthetic beings
Former Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz has started a new company called Sun and Thunder to focus on AI characters and interactive storytelling. In...