The DeanBeat: GamesBeat Summit 2020’s first speakers on the Dawn of a New Generation
GamesBeat Summit 2020 is coming a little too fast for my taste, but it’s time to start telling people about our cool event that...
Pathfinder: Kingmaker studio Owlcat Games raises $1 million from GEM Capital
Owlcat Games put out a good adaption of one of tabletop gaming’s most complex role-playing systems with Pathfinder: Kingmaker in 2018, selling what it...
Ubisoft helps Ultra validate transactions on its blockchain for gamers
Ultra is one of a number of companies that believes blockchain and cryptocurrency can make the distribution of games more efficient and gamers more...
Avidly Reads Board Games excerpt: Pandemic Mobile saved Pandemic … from me
Reprinted from Avidly Reads Board Games by Eric Thurm with permission from NYU Press, © 2019 by New York University. A good game of Pandemic is...
Chris DeWolfe interview: Jam City bets on Disney Frozen 2 collaboration
Jam City is one of the big survivors in the mobile game business, and it has a big presence in the Culver City area...
App Annie: 5 predictions for mobile app and gaming success in 2020
App Annie collects a lot of data on mobile devices, apps, and games. And so the mobile insights and analytics company has five predictions...
TabTale changes its name to Crazy Labs with focus on hyper-casual mobile games
TabTale got 2.6 billion downloads thanks to its past focus on kids educational games. But in the past couple of years, the Israeli company...
Richard Bartle interview: How game developers should think about sapient AI characters
Richard Bartle is one of the leading academics on video games and is a senior lecturer and honorary professor of computer game design at...
GSN Games names former Angry Birds developer William Taht as Bingo Bash chief
GSN Games announced former Rovio executive Wilhelm Taht will be the new senior vice president and general manager for Bingo Bash, effective November 18....
Brass Lion is a new diverse studio from Mass Effect 3 and Skyrim devs
Developers Bryna Dabby Smith, Rashad Redic, and Manveer Heir revealed the details of their new studio, Brass Lion Entertainment, today. This new team wants...