A life in game journalism
Merry Christmas and happy holidays. I thought I would do something different for a holiday message this year. It’s based on a talk I...
Amy Jo Kim: Designers should listen to super fans, not super haters
If you’ve worked in games and technology long enough, you have your super fans, the people who you can turn to when you’re designing...
Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney wants the game industry to lose its Hollywood envy
Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney spoke passionately about creativity and inspiration at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2017 event. In a fireside chat with me, Mahoney said he...
AR visionaries learn to cope with the limits of today’s tech
Augmented reality may be the future of games, but there are some huge problems that stand in its way. So we decided to gather...
From GamesBeat 2016: What comes after Pokémon Go and the state of games today
I had a chance to deliver the opening speeches at our AR/VR day and the GamesBeat 2016 opening sessions. I’ve condensed those two speeches...
Here’s our agenda for GamesBeat 2016: The Platform Awakens — with 93 speakers
I’ve worked for months to recruit, and sometimes re-recruit, 93 speakers for GamesBeat 2016, our game conference that runs August 1-3 at the beautiful...
Pokémon Go creator John Hanke of Niantic to speak at GamesBeat 2016
John Hanke, CEO of Niantic Labs. John Hanke has come a long way with Niantic Labs, the creator of the mobile gaming sensation Pokémon...
GamesBeat Summit 2016 is all about the underdogs
This is my opening speech at GamesBeat Summit 2016. Welcome. We are still here. Many game publications have come and gone. Game conferences have also...
25 years of covering games: My views of then and now
This is one of those posts where you get to hear a lot of what I think about gaming, from my own perspective. As...
The best of GamesBeat’s 2015 coverage
I want to say 2015 has been an interesting year for the game industry, but besides being cliché, it’s superfluous. When you work in...