Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson on the ‘metaverse stock price’ | The DeanBeat
We got a sense recently for the “metaverse stock price” as it stands in 2024 at our recent GamesBeat Next 2024 event. Neal Stephenson...
Amazon Games talks IP growth opportunities across five generations of gamers
The goal of Amazon Games, the game publishing and development arm of Amazon, is to become a world-class top publisher in the game industry,...
Weaning mobile game players off in-app purchases with effective D2C marketing
Mobile game companies have a new D2C opportunity in front of them, and it’s potentially huge. Plenty of game companies are already using social...
Toei, Spaceport and Twin Atlas launch Hypergalactic: Monkey Quest on Roblox
Toei Animation, Spaceport and Twin Atlas are launching Hypergalactic: Monkey Quest on Roblox today, along with seven supporting games. Hypergalactic: Monkey Quest is a...
Former PlayStation Worldwide chairman says the the future of the industry no longer belongs to the big players
The global console market is robust and massive — but it’s also topping out at 250 million users across the three major platforms, says...
Sony’s big games for September quarter are Astro Bot, Ghost of Tsushima and Helldivers 2
Sony reported its quarterly results tonight and it said that third-party games helped it grow operating profits by 2.8 times in the quarter compared...
Sony’s Q2 game/network service sales rise 12% to $7.01B
Sony reported its sales for its game and network services division were 1,071.5 billion yen ($7.01 billion) for the second fiscal quarter ended September...
How games companies can attract (and keep) new talent
At our recent GamesBeat Next event, we held our ninth Women in Gaming Breakfast, where I had the opportunity of speaking with Dametra Johnson-Marletti,...
Mass Effect to be adapted as a TV show by Amazon MGM
The action sci-fi world of Mass Effect is next on the docket to join the transmedia world of video game-to-television adaptations. According to a...
Unity beats guidance with Q3 revenues of $429M, down 2%
Unity reported that its third-quarter revenues and adjusted profits beat expectations, with revenue falling 2% to $429 million. For the quarter ended September 30,...