How the game industry tackles diversity and personal failure
A diverse workforce is meaningless if you don’t use their perspectives to shape and enhance your games. This is one of the biggest takeaways from a...
PlayStation interns turned the ‘Minority Report’ touch gloves into a reality
You don’t get something like PlayStation VR without a lot of experimentation. And sometimes the origins of those experiments are as obvious as you...
The Philadelphia 76ers dish on what it’s like to own an esports team
Even multimillion dollar basketball organizations don’t have all the answers yet when it comes to expanding their businesses into competitive gaming. The worlds of esports and...
Gaming beat the Supreme Court — now it’s time to defend AR and VR
The gaming industry has successfully fought off critics and their moral panics for decades, and now it’s time to look ahead to the next...
Watch the GamesBeat Summit day 2 live right here
We’re in Berkeley, California with the 2017 GamesBeat Summit, and we want you to join us for some of the biggest and most important...
How Watch Dogs 2 stayed ahead of current events
For Watch Dogs 2, the truth turned out to be stranger than fiction. At the GamesBeat Summit today in Berkeley, California. (watch it here),...
How mixed reality is transforming the TV game show
The quaint TV game show is becoming more exciting, and it has nothing to do with goofy stunts or reality hijinks. Thanks to mixed...
Call of Duty studio Sledgehammer wrestled over doing Advance Warfare 2 or WWII
Making games is a huge group effort, and oftentimes the people that make up those groups don’t agree on what to do next. One notable...
Modern VR is ‘like the dog who catches a car but doesn’t know what to do with it’
The modern virtual reality market is new, but the idea of virtual worlds has existed in fiction for decades. Austin Grossman is a sci-fi...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney: The tech for the metaverse is about 3 years away
We’ve overcome some of the early roadblocks that are preventing us from living every moment in virtual reality, and Epic Games founder thinks we’ll figure...