The DeanBeat: It’s time to hurry up and build the Metaverse
During this pandemic, I can’t think of anything more exciting for us to do from the comfort of our own homes than to explore...
The Leisure Economy: How to make money playing games in 2020
The Leisure Economy is the embodiment of the hope that someday we could all get paid to play games. It has been a common...
Edward Saatchi on virtual beings: AI is the next great art form
Edward Saatchi, the CEO of Fable Studio and maker of Emmy-winning virtual reality experiences, participated in a thoughtful conversation about “virtual beings” at our...
The DeanBeat: Can you trust someone that you’ve never met in person?
Here’s one of the things that surprised me about the GamesBeat Summit 2020 online-only event that we held last week: Our audience loved messaging...
How Amazon builds games by working backward from players
Mike Frazzini is one of Amazon’s most-experienced homegrown game executives, as he has been at the company for 16 years and has worked on...
Roblox believes user-generated content will bring us the Metaverse
Roblox vice president of developer relations Matt Curtis believes that the future of gaming is user-generated content (UGC), and he delved into the gaming...
The DeanBeat: Learnings from our first online-only event
Thank you to those of you who tuned into our online-only GameBeat Summit 2020 event this week. I had a great time, even though...
The game industry is still in the raising ‘awareness’ phase of helping climate change
One of the biggest impacts that media can have on environmentalism is spreading awareness that can then lead to practical action such as legislation....
COVID-19 could accelerate the ‘maturity of Chinese players’ in the free-to-play market
The free-to-play market is gigantic worldwide, including the hundreds of millions of players within China. Nielsen’s SuperData Research Group found that free-to-play games revenue...
IGDA executive director: Subscription game services ‘make a lot of sense’ in a pandemic
Apple made waves when it launched its Arcade subscription service in September, releasing exclusive games like Grindstone and Mini Motorways to Apple device users...