Twitch cuts jobs as it plans ‘aggressive growth strategy’
Amazon’s livestreaming platform Twitch has confirmed to GamesBeat that it has laid off a number of employees. Twitch reportedly cut more than 25 people...
5 ways the VR industry can attract women
With constant media coverage, an incredible amount of funding — $3 billion in 2017 alone, to be exact — and more exciting use cases for...
Jack Tretton’s post-Sony career has changed his view of game platforms
Last week, former Sony U.S. games chief Jack Tretton announced he had started a new venture capital fund, Interactive Gaming Ventures, to invest money...
Amazon powers cloud servers for 90% of large game companies
More than 90 percent of the world’s largest game companies use Amazon Web Services, which offloads online gaming infrastructure tasks to Amazon’s giant cloud...
Amazon launches cross-platform competitive gaming service GameOn
Amazon has launched a cross-platform, competitive gaming service for developers. Dubbed Amazon GameOn, it lets developers add esports-like competitions for mobile, PC, and console...
The DeanBeat: Lots of reasons to be at GDC
It’s always hard to choose what to attend at the Game Developers Conference, which takes place in San Francisco next week. But in the...
Amazon confirms it bought GameSparks to run live game operations
Amazon is confirming that it bought game infrastructure and live operations company GameSparks to offer a wider variety of services to game developers. In...
Twitch launches new zero-tolerance policy for hateful content, issues new streamer guidelines
Twitch has revised its guidelines to take a stronger stance against harassment, hate, and sexually suggestive content. In a blog post, Amazon’s livestreaming video...
Borderlands developer Gearbox uses the cloud to change how it makes games
When you imagine the kind of work a game developer does, you probably think about someone designing a level or programming movement and physics....
Twitch brings in a team of executives to oversee deployment of new features
Twitch is getting a new chief operating officer and some new vice presidents to help it continue to develop and launch community products on...