Categories Posted inin Gameplay How crossplay and esports can drive each other forward Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 5, 2019 27 min Crossplay has become a hot topic among gamers in the past year, and once-siloed platforms have begun to open up their platforms so that... Continue Reading 27 min
Categories Posted inin Business Mobile game devs face new challenges — but with new tools Posted byby GamesBeat April 3, 2019 4 min According to a recent report from SuperData, mobile games generated $61.3 billion in revenue in 2018, compared with $35.7 billion on PCs and $12.7... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Keywords: The not-so-secret elves of game development Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 30, 2019 11 min We’ve heard about a lot of job losses in the video game industry, with Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard laying off more than 1,150... Continue Reading 11 min
Categories Posted inin Business Steven Ma interview — How Tencent is more than just a big game investor Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 26, 2019 16 min Steven Ma joined Tencent in 2007, when most people in the world probably had not heard about the Shenzhen, China-based company. Now Tencent is... Continue Reading 16 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Minh ‘Gooseman’ Le shares how to get the guns right in shooters Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 24, 2019 12 min Minh Le knows his guns. Nicknamed “Gooseman,” Le helped create a mod for Half-Life 2 back in 1999. It became Counter-Strike, one of the... Continue Reading 12 min
Categories Posted inin Business Epic CEO on 250 million Fortnite players, digital humans, and $100 million dev fund Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 20, 2019 16 min Epic Games dumped a bunch of news about the state of the Unreal Engine at its keynote talk at the Game Developers Conference today.... Continue Reading 16 min
Categories Posted inin Business Epic Games makes online services available for free to game devs Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 20, 2019 2 min Epic Games learned a lot about creating online services with the launch of Fortnite, the enormously successful battle royale game with 250 million users.... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Family gaming is a great way to bond with your kids Posted byby GamesBeat March 18, 2019 4 min Are video games bad once again? As in the 1980s and 1990s, games have their detractors today. One doesn’t have to go far to... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business The ‘e’ in esports also stands for ‘engagement’ Posted byby GamesBeat March 10, 2019 4 min Who would have thought we’d live in a world where we’d even fathom video games worthy of consideration as an Olympic sport? Or where... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Is Fortnite killing game company stocks? Posted byby GamesBeat February 21, 2019 4 min Since October, major game company stocks have been down significantly. Of course, much of this was due to an overall market decline. However, as... Continue Reading 4 min