Matthew Ball, CEO of Epyllion, talks with Dean Takahashi at our Hollywood and Games event in December.
Matthew Ball, CEO of Epyllion, talks with Dean Takahashi at our Hollywood and Games event in December.
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Matthew Ball explains what happened to the gaming boom and our chances for recovery | The DeanBeat

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Matthew Ball, CEO of Epyllion and author of The Metaverse book, dropped 220 slides in an early access deck this week that explained what happened with the rise and fall of the modern game industry.

The slides are quite readable and I encourage everyone to view them, as it takes a lot less time to go through them and grasp them than if he had dropped a gigantic essay on the topic. Ball did a preview of his views at our GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games event on December 12 in Los Angeles. I’m already excited to discuss this new slide deck and the issues it raises at our upcoming event GamesBeat Summit 2025 on May 19-20 in Los Angeles.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.