Bionic arms ambassador Daniel Melville hopes for a more advanced, affordable future
Born without a part of his right arm, Daniel Melville grew up using simple prosthetics that didn’t serve any functional purpose. It wasn’t until...
Daniel Melville interview: What it feels like to have a Metal Gear Solid bionic arm
Daniel Melville was born without a right hand. But the 29-year-old man from Reading in the United Kingdom is ready to do some high-fives...
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...
The DeanBeat: Digital gaming events aren’t easy, but they may be the future
Next week marks our first-ever digital game conference, GamesBeat Summit Digital. We pivoted about eight weeks ago from our physical event in Los Angeles...
GamesBeat Summit Digital speakers: Stanley Pierre-Louis, Keisha Howard, Blake Harris, and Josh Tsui
We’re taking GamesBeat Summit 2020 into a digital online-only format. And here’s the next slate of speakers: Stanley Pierre-Louis, president and CEO of the...
Entertainment Software Association announces Stanley Pierre-Louis as next CEO
The Entertainment Software Association, the game industry’s lobbying group and the creator of the big E3 trade show, has named Stanley Pierre-Louis as its...
Making games more accessible with the Xbox Adaptive Controller
I’ve been fascinated with Microsoft’s journey to make, ship, and market the Xbox Adaptive Controller, an accessory for the game console for those with...
GamesBeat Summit: Amy Hennig, Tina Amini, and Stanley Pierre-Louis bring new perspectives
Amy Hennig tells good stories. They have engrossing plots, deep characters, and rich backdrops. And that’s one of the reasons the co-creator of games...
GamesBeat Summit 2019: Talks on refugees, peace, climate change, and accessibility
For 22 of his 24 years of life, Lual Mayen lived in a refugee camp in northern Uganda. His parents fled from South Sudan...
The DeanBeat: Our dream event with Atari father Nolan Bushnell, Respawn’s Vince Zampella and Spider-Man dude Ted Price
I’ve been dreaming about putting on a great game industry event for a long time. We’ve been doing our GamesBeat conferences for a decade...