Chris Heatherly’s Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow casual party games studio lands $3M
Gaming veteran Chris Heatherly has raised $3 million for his new casual party game studio Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow. Heatherly is the former head...
Midnight comes out of stealth with $7.5M in funding for a new game company
Midnight emerged from stealth today to announce $7.5 million in seed funding earmarked to build a studio and platform to create Web3 games with...
NBCUniversal will shut down its game publishing business
Comcast’s NBCUniversal has decided to shut down its game publishing business, a little more than 2.5 years after expanded it. The Hollywood company will...
Funko Pop! Blitz takes Universal franchises to match-3 mobile game
Universal Games and Digital Platforms and Funko unveiled Funko Pop! Blitz, a new match-3 puzzle mobile game featuring Funko Pop! characters from popular Universal...
NBCUniversal’s Chris Heatherly — The future of interactive storytelling
Chris Heatherly, executive vice president of games and digital platforms at NBCUniversal, has seen storytelling evolve in mobile, console, and PC games in the...
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...
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...
The DeanBeat: Our dream event with Atari father Nolan Bushnell, Respawn’s Vince Zampella and Spider-Man dude Ted Price
I’ve been dreaming about putting on a great game industry event for a long time. We’ve been doing our GamesBeat conferences for a decade...
NBCUniversal and Starbreeze team up on Payday: Crime War mobile game
NBCUniversal and Starbreeze are teaming up to publish a new first-person shooter mobile game dubbed Payday: Crime War. The game is yet another example...
The DeanBeat: Why Universal went all-in on Jurassic World games
When the blockbuster film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom debuted on June 22, it came with a bunch of Jurassic World games. Normally, based on...