GamesBeat Summit 2018 Archives - Page 2 of 5

Joost van Dreunen talks about the future of games at GamesBeat Summit 2018.

SuperData Research: Games will lead the growth of entertainment

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 15, 2018
2 min

As traditional entertainment struggles to find its place in a new digital world, video games prosper and have evolved into a mainstream form of...

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Make a good game — worry about transmedia later

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 14, 2018
4 min

Jon Goldman has some advice for indie developers who are trying to manufacture transmedia IP from the get-go: Don’t. Transmedia is the intersection of...

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4 min

The DeanBeat: What we learned about the future of games this week

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 13, 2018
7 min

Each year, we hold our GamesBeat Summit event to gather the best thinking about where gaming is going. This week, at our fourth annual...

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Dean Takahashi holds Cuphead at GamesBeat Summit 2018.

Thanks for coming to GamesBeat Summit 2018: The Future of Games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 12, 2018
8 min

Thank you to those who came to GamesBeat Summit 2018. We had 264 attendees, compared to about 200 in our first summit in 2015....

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8 min

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Niantic CEO John Hanke: Games are the primordial soup for tech evolution

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 11, 2018
2 min

Niantic CEO John Hanke summoned up the ghost of Arthur C. Clarke when discussing augmented reality with the famous quote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology...

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Tencent’s new game investment strategy: smaller and earlier

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 11, 2018
2 min

Tencent is one of the biggest gaming companies in the world. It got to the point where it owns significant chunks of companies like...

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Dean Takahashi (left) and James Hursthouse (right).

Games jobs are everywhere — but, hey, Canada is nice

Posted byby Mike Minotti
April 10, 2018
2 min

“Where in the world are the game jobs?” That was the name of talk between James Hursthouse of DigiBC (The Interactive & Digital Media Industry Association...