Turtle Rock’s Steve Goldstein believes the console game industry lacks risk takers
I’ve formed a lot of opinions about the game industry over the years. And I recently got the chance to spout them in a...
Facebook shuts down its Oculus Story Studio team
Facebook is getting out of the narrative-based VR experience business. Oculus VR content boss Jason Rubin revealed today that the company is closing its...
Game pioneers Jason Rubin and Ted Price discuss the lessons of early VR games
Ted Price and Jason Rubin were pioneers at the start of the console video game business. Price started Insomniac Games in 1994, making games,...
How VR startups can survive the slow growth of 2017
While the throngs were attending the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we had our own GamesBeat event nearby at a breakfast sponsored by...
Oculus’s Jason Rubin on VR: ‘The next 12 to 24 months are where the real creativity is going to happen’
Every once in a while you get to see not one but two legends occupy a single stage. It happened for music lovers when Billy...
How the game investors at Signia Venture Partners have steered into VR
Rick Thompson has made a lot of good investments over time which have generated around $6 billion in returns, roughly speaking. He is knowledgeable...
Oculus CEO and studio chief weigh in on Palmer Luckey’s apology
Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe weighed in on Facebook about Oculus founder Palmer Luckey’s ill-considered contribution to an anti-Hillary Clinton internet campaign. Luckey made a...
Oculus VR’s Jason Rubin predicts the pants-ripping next wave of VR
The person responsible for the next wave of virtual reality software coming from Oculus Rift developers is giddy about how rapidly things are going...
Introducing our first speakers and theme for GamesBeat 2016: The Platform Awakens
We just finished our GamesBeat Summit 2016 event, and we were pleased with how that went. Now we’re happy to announce today that GamesBeat 2016 will...
Oculus takes multiplayer VR to the Wild West with Dead & Buried’s saloon gunfight
Oculus VR has a fun game on its hands with Dead & Buried, a wild west game where you engage in a saloon gunfight...