The DeanBeat: The outlook for online game events in 2021
I’m writing this on a Thursday night while participating in a panel in Clubhouse, the social audio chat platform that has grown quickly to...
What will it take to make good on the promise of the metaverse?
The “How to Build the Metaverse” panel during GamesBeat’s two-day all-digital metaverse event brought together speakers who are tackling the challenges in bringing the...
How Unity is positioning itself to democratize the metaverse
“Right now we’re just at the cusp of getting to the point where a lot of technologies, a lot of concepts, are coming together,...
How pandemic socialization trends have accelerated the move into virtual spaces
What will the social graph look like this year? What is it going to look like two years from now, and how is it...
GamesBeat and Facebook partner on the next big gaming event
From major ad ecosystem changes to the imminent arrival of the metaverse, the gaming world is flush with change that industry folk need to...
Hour One wants synthetic AI characters to be your digital avatars
If you ever wondered how we’ll populate the metaverse, look no further than Hour One, an Israeli startup that is making replicas of people...
Jam City’s Josh Yguado: Games are the center of the entertainment universe
Jam City president Josh Yguado believes that games have become the center of the entertainment universe. His Los Angeles company would know, as it sits...
Story is just as important as graphics when it comes to gaming’s next generation
It’s all well and good to discuss next-generation consoles in terms of their computational prowess, their graphical capabilities, and the kinds of games that...
Take-Two’s Private Division welcomes competition from Epic Games
Gaming has seen something of a continental drift for years. The biggest games are ballooning into more massive projects. And on the other end,...
GamesBeat Summit Digital speakers: The power of games for climate change
This year GamesBeat Summit Digital is going to be digital online-only. And right now we’re ready to introduce our next round of speakers as the...