The DeanBeat: DICE Summit shows the inspirational highs and depressing lows of gaming
Shawn Layden led off this week’s DICE Summit with an inspirational speech about the need to focus on quality games, the rise of accessibility...
God of War takes Game of the Year, 9 of 23 awards at DICE Awards
God of War swept the big awards at the game industry’s peer honors celebration the DICE Awards, taking home nine of 23 of the...
Sony’s Shawn Layden is skipping E3, but he’ll speak at the DICE Summit
Sony recently announced that it is dropping out of the big Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show in June for the first time in...
Master Chief’s guardian, Bonnie Ross, talks about Halo and diversity
Even Master Chief, the hero of the Halo universe, needs a guardian. And Bonnie Ross, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and head of 343 Industries, has been...
Blackbird Interactive releases demo for Project Eagle base on Mars
Blackbird Interactive created Project Eagle, an interactive art demo of a human colony on Mars, in 2017. And, just in time for the touchdown...
DICE Summit will celebrate ‘trailblazers’ at February event
The DICE Summit, one of the game industry’s marquee events, will return next February in Las Vegas with a theme that honors “trailblazers” in...
Job Simulator co-creator Alex Schwartz on making hit VR games look easy
Alex Schwartz, the CEO of Owlchemy Labs, has made virtual reality look easy. His company’s debut game, Job Simulator, is one of the big...
Nintendo’s Genyo Takeda gets lifetime achievement award at DICE Awards
Genyo Takeda, 68, received the Lifetime Achievement award at the prestigious DICE Awards tonight during the DICE Summit elite gaming event in Las Vegas....
Ubisoft researcher takes a bird’s-eye view of tech, games, and entertainment
Lidwine Sauer is paid to be one of Ubisoft’s big thinkers. She’s the director of insights and trends for Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab, a...
Under Meggan Scavio, DICE Summit refocuses on game developer creativity
Changes are afoot for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. Meggan Scavio, former head of the Game Developers Conference, became president of the...