From Kickstarter to Netflix: The Exploding Kittens Journey | Elan Lee
The collaboration of The Oatmeal cartoonist Matt Inman and video game designer Elan Lee has been a fruitful one. And I recently caught up with Lee...
Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg is a gaming, AI, and industry growth optimist | The DeanBeat
Unity is on the mend. That’s the view of Matthew Bromberg, who was appointed as CEO of the game engine maker just seven months...
Rec Room reduces toxic chat incidences by 70% with intelligent voice moderation
Gaming experiences can be undermined, even ruined by bad behavior in text chat or forums. In voice chat and in VR, that bad experience...
BIPOC women leaders in gaming: Be audacious, and don’t stop creating
This year’s Diversity in Gaming Lunch at GamesBeat Next 2024, presented by Xsolla, tackled game funding, and how developers from endemically overlooked groups have found...
Amazon Games talks IP growth opportunities across five generations of gamers
The goal of Amazon Games, the game publishing and development arm of Amazon, is to become a world-class top publisher in the game industry,...
Weaning mobile game players off in-app purchases with effective D2C marketing
Mobile game companies have a new D2C opportunity in front of them, and it’s potentially huge. Plenty of game companies are already using social...
Former PlayStation Worldwide chairman says the the future of the industry no longer belongs to the big players
The global console market is robust and massive — but it’s also topping out at 250 million users across the three major platforms, says...
How games companies can attract (and keep) new talent
At our recent GamesBeat Next event, we held our ninth Women in Gaming Breakfast, where I had the opportunity of speaking with Dametra Johnson-Marletti,...
Electronic Arts, Xsolla talk 5 best practices for mobile game monetization
Monetization is a huge challenge and a moving target in today’s mobile game market — but there are also new opportunities as the global...
How gaming can get back to balanced growth | The DeanBeat
This week, we had 42 sessions and 97 speakers at our GamesBeat Next 2024 event. And many of them spoke around our theme of...