The democratization of esports: How any size developer can reap the benefits (VB Live)
Presented by Xsolla Right now, esports has a 495 million-strong global audience. In this VB Live event, you’ll learn how to leverage the opportunity...
Deloitte: Consumers load up on subscriptions but are frustrated with fragmentation
Consumers are loading up on digital media subscriptions, with the average subscriber having four paid video streaming services per household, two paid music services,...
How Playable Worlds is building a cloud-native sandbox MMO
Playable Worlds, an online game company that Raph Koster and Eric Goldberg founded, is making a “cloud-native” massively multiplayer online game. But what that...
5 features that drive revenue for mobile games in both the U.S. and China
Many features of top-grossing mobile games help them retain and monetize players, but which are most effective and have the most significant impact? To...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang interview: From the Grace CPU to engineer’s metaverse
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered a keynote speech this week to 180,000 attendees registered for the GTC 21 online-only conference. And Huang dropped a...
March 2021 NPD, PS5/Switch sales, and more | GB Decides 192
Everyone in video games is mad at GamesBeat editor Jeff Grubb this week. Gaming community ResetEra is furious, Dave Jaffe is upset, and young...
The RetroBeat: QuackShot is a treasured Genesis duck tale
I’ve been spending a lot of time enjoying the Sega Genesis during 2021. That includes revisiting one of my favorite games from my childhood,...
The DeanBeat: A Big Bang week for the metaverse
The metaverse had a couple of Big Bangs this week that should put it on everyone’s radar. First, Epic Games raised $1 billion at...
GamesBeat Summit 2021: Growing the next generation — Our leader-packed agenda
GamesBeat Summit 2021 is a digital online-only event taking place on April 28 and April 29 as our third virtual conference in a year....
March 2021 NPD: PlayStation 5 is the fastest-selling U.S. console ever
Video game hardware sales were up 47% in March, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. That growth comes despite a surge in sales...