GamesBeat Summit 2025: The East-West connection with NC America’s Jeonghee “JJ” Jin
Jeonghee “JJ” Jin has spent her career helping Asian studios expand in the west. She became the CEO of NC America less than a...
Outfit7 unveils My Talking Tom Friends 2 | exclusive
It’s been a long wait, but Outfit7 has revealed My Talking Tom Friends 2, a new mobile game that will bring the Talking Tom & Friends crew back in a...
Wizards of the Coast signs publishing agreement with Giant Skull
Wizards of the Coast (WotC) announced today that it has reached a publishing agreement with development studio Giant Skull. It will publish the studio’s...
Aethir enables better user acquisition via Instant Play streaming for Doctor Who: Worlds Apart
Aethir provides better computing efficiency with its Instant Play streaming solution for Doctor Who: Worlds Apart, resulting in better user-acquisition efficiency and revenue. ‘In...
Appcharge and AppsFlyer launch enhanced mobile payments and web store analytics for games
Appcharge, a direct-to-consumer (D2C) platform for mobile games, and marketing measurement firm AppsFlyer announced a strategic partnership. They will offer a unified cross-platform mobile...
People Can Fly shuts down two games and prepares for layoffs
Sebastian Wojciechowski, CEO of Polish game studio People Can Fly, announced that the company has suspended development on two games — Project Gemini and...
The Sims co-creator Tim LeTourneau passes away
Tim LeTourneau, one of the creators of The Sims franchise at Maxis and a game creator at Zynga, has passed away. LeTourneau’s wife Donna...
Augmented World Expo 2025 will draw 400 speakers, 6K attendees and 300 global exhibitors
Augmented World Expo 2025 will draw more than 6,000 attendees, 400 speakers and 300 global exhibitors to its event June 10 to June 12...
Micro Center nerd store fills the Fry’s vacuum with its return to Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley nerds have been lonelier since Fry’s Electronics shut down in February 2021 in the midst of the pandemic. The electronics store chain...
The challenges of translating The Last of Us to the television audience | The DeanBeat
There are many times when I’ve fantasized about being the game director for The Last of Us, the great video game from Naughty Dog,...