Shuhei Yoshida looks back on his long career at PlayStation while at Gamescom Latam 2025
Shu Yoshida has graduated from Sony, but he is not retired. Rather, he is running a new indie games consulting company dubbed YOSP Inc....
Henk Rogers’ real story behind Tetris, the Perfect Game | The DeanBeat
Henk Rogers, one of the grandfathers of gaming, has a new book out, The Perfect Game, and we talked about it in an interview...
While gaming stalled, Brazil adapted and found ways to move forward | The DeanBeat
Last week, an estimated 131,800 people — many of them dressed as their favorite video game characters — turned out for the Gamescom Latam...
Mika Games invests $2M in Punko.io developer Agonalea Games
Mika Games Invests $2 Million in Hybrid-Casual Game Set to Surpass Plants vs. Zombies A gaming fund launched by Wargaming co-founder Nick Katselapov invests...
Gamescom Latam Big Festival announces nominees for 2025 game awards
Gamescom Latam Big Festival has announced the nominees for the best indie games created by Brazil’s game developers. With 10 games on the list...
Gamescom Latam nabs Steam platform speakers for 2025 event
Gamescom Latam 2025 announced today that the distribution platform, Steam, will be present at the business (B2B) area of the event. This is the...
Gamescom Latam grew to 100K visitors, 124 exhibitors from 66 countries
In its first edition, Gamescom Latam (combined with the BIG Festival) grew to more than 100,000 visitors for its gaming expo in São Paulo,...
BIG Festival Awards: Best game goes to Chants of Sennaar
The award for best game went to Chants of Sennaar at the BIG Festival Awards. The game is 2023 adventure video game developed by...
For optimism in games, look at Brazil | The DeanBeat
It’s not easy to find good news in the game industry these days. But on my trip to see the Gamescom Latam event in...
Gamescom Latam announces Skybound CEO David Alpert as keynote speaker
Gamescom Latam announced today that David Alpert will be the keynote speaker at its upcoming June event. Alpert joins Skybound co-chairman Jon Goldman at...