GamesBeat Summit 2024 Archives

GamesBeat Summit: Hollywood and gaming join after a long courtship

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
June 6, 2024
2 min

Game-to-show/film adaptations have officially become A Thing. They’re no longer relegated to little-acknowledged movies or adaptations so loose they verge on spiritual-at-best. Hollywood has...

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2 min

Massively panel (left to right): Mark Jacobs, Rashid

Redefining “massively” to fit lots more players into MMOs

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 5, 2024
18 min

Gaming veterans like Mark Jacobs, CEO of Unchained Entertainment, have been thinking about staging massive battles in online games for a long time. Working...

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18 min

GamesBeat Summit 2024: Finding a niche, getting noticed and thriving during a market downturn

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 4, 2024
3 min

The second day of GamesBeat 2024 brought together panelists from every corner of the gaming industry to talk about what it takes for developers...

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3 min

The panelists at the WIG Breakfast at GamesBeat Summit 2024.

GamesBeat Summit 2024: Shedding light on the positive effects of games

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
June 3, 2024
2 min

GamesBeat held its eighth Women in Gaming Breakfast, presented by Xsolla, at this year’s GamesBeat Summit event, where a panel of professionals spoke about...

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2 min

GamesBeat Summit 2024: Ensuring a successful live-service game launch

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 30, 2024
5 min

“Running live services for your games these days, it’s table stakes,” said Amy Jo Kim, founder at Game Thinking. “Certainly every social game has...

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5 min

GB Summit 2024: What will it take to get Web3 games to hit the mainstream?

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 30, 2024
5 min

It’s been about a decade of Web3 gaming, and the killer app that will transform the space has yet to be identified — but...

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5 min

Scopely's co-CEOs talk with Dean Takahashi at GamesBeat Summit 2024.

How Scopely aimed to be a hit company, rather than just a hit game maker | co-CEOs fireside chat

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 29, 2024
13 min

Walter Driver and Javier Ferreira, co-CEOs of Scopely, spoke with me in a fireside chat at GamesBeat Summit 2024 about how they feel the...

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IGDA's Jakin Vela (left) and actor Zeke Alton at GamesBeat Summit 2024.

GamesBeat Summit 2024: The power of unions

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
May 28, 2024
3 min

Unions have become more common in the games industry over the last five years, forming at places like Activision, ZeniMax, Sega, and more as...

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3 min

Brian Ward, CEO of Savvy Games Group, and Lisa Cosmas Hanson, president of Niko Partners, at GamesBeat Summit 2024.

The scale of ambition in gaming is getting bigger | Brian Ward fireside chat

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 28, 2024
13 min

The scale of ambition for Saudi Arabia when it comes to moving into the games business and esports is well known. But trick is...

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13 min

Songyee Yoon, president of NCSoft, was one of the first speakers at GamesBeat Summit 2024.

NCSoft’s Songyee Yoon believes in gaming for a better world | The DeanBeat

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 24, 2024
9 min

Songyee Yoon is president of NCSoft, the South Korean maker of online games including Aion, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Blade & Soul, Lineage,...

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9 min