Categories Posted inin Business The Last of Us, Tearaway lead the way for the 14th annual Game Developers Choice Awards nominees Posted byby GamesBeat January 9, 2014 4 min The Game Developers Choice Awards is shaping up to be a party for two of the best games of 2013 — and for Sony.... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Development Facebooker-turned-game dev Tam stays calm in the mobile storm (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 9, 2013 12 min Storm8 has more than 400 million downloads and 10 million daily mobile gamers. Chief executive Perry Tam says it did that by being bold. Continue Reading 12 min
Categories Posted inin Technology The DeanBeat: Mobile monetization is the ‘biggest Achilles’ heel’ issue in the game industry Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 5, 2013 5 min Mobile monetization is separating the industry into the haves and have-nots. Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business How GungHo Online Entertainment created Puzzle & Dragons, the surprise billion-dollar mobile game Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 4, 2013 10 min The company's hit game is on its way to $1 billion in revenue, and its market value is bigger than Zynga's. Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business Ted Price on how Insomniac Games’ Fuse isn’t going to be a bomb (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 3, 2013 8 min Insomniac's first cross-platform title may be one of the last of its kind in the current console business. Continue Reading 8 min
Categories Posted inin Business Unity’s David Helgason on why next-gen consoles are embracing indies (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 2, 2013 10 min Unity is cutting deals with everyone, and that's a sign that indie game developers are critical to every platform. Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business GDC drew more than 23,000 attendees to hear diverse perspectives on games Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 1, 2013 3 min Here's a roundup of the GDC. This year, the parties generated as much buzz as the sessions. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Victor Kislyi storms into mobile with World of Tanks: Blitz (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 1, 2013 10 min Will the company get its 55 million PC players to shift to a mobile version of World of Tanks? Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business Jade Raymond’s growing empire at Ubisoft (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 31, 2013 10 min The well-known game designer started at Electronic Arts, working on The Sims. Now, she's running a Ubisoft studio with 300 employees. Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business Updated: YetiZen explains hiring of gamer models, not dancers, for its GDC party Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 30, 2013 4 min The fingers are pointing after accusations that dancers at a party were demeaning to women. Continue Reading 4 min