The DeanBeat: Why the smart kids are moving into blockchain games
We dove deeper into blockchain, cryptocurrency, and games at our GamesBeat Summit 2019 in Los Angeles. We had a panel on it last year,...
Zynga grows Q1 2019 revenue 27% to $265 million thanks to 4 strong games
Zynga reported big revenue growth of 27% and bookings growth of 64% for the first quarter of 2019 thanks to games such as Empires...
The DeanBeat: Reinvention at the GamesBeat Summit
I’m very proud of our GamesBeat Summit 2019, the event we held about Building Gaming Communities at the community-oriented Two Bit Circus in Los...
Series: Your Story Universe is NBCUniversal’s big push into interactive storytelling
NBCUniversal and Endless Entertainment launched a new interactive storytelling mobile game today: Series: Your Story Universe. Universal Games and Digital Platforms is tapping NBCUniversal’s...
Two Bit Circus unveils developer program for location-based entertainment
Two Bit Circus has opened a “Park as a Platform” program to enable game developers to create location-based entertainment more quickly and easily. During...
The DeanBeat: Telling stories at GamesBeat Summit 2019
We’ve got 97 luminaries speaking at our GamesBeat Summit 2019 event on April 23-24 in Los Angeles. I’ve spent the better part of six...
Kickstarter game projects top $1 billion, with tabletop making up 69% of pledges
Games represent one of the biggest categories on Kickstarter, and it looks like it’ll stay that way. Today, the crowdfunding site announced that gaming...
Promethean AI automatically generates game scenes, like a bedroom, for human artists
Promethean AI uses artificial intelligence to help human artists create art for video games. It can, for instance, automatically generate a bedroom when a...
How Equinix enables multiplayer gaming across the internet
Jim Poole sees a lot of games coming through his network, only they’re not so readily identifiable as games. Poole is an executive at...
EU charges Valve and 5 game publishers with unfair ‘geo-blocking’
(Reuters) — The European Commission charged Valve, the owner of video game distribution platform Steam, and five game publishers on Friday with preventing EU...