If Nvidia buys Arm, how open will it remain?
For weeks, we’ve heard rumors that Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Arm from Softbank. The latest acquisition price is more than $40...
The DeanBeat: What to expect from CES 2019
Next week I’ll head off for my annual holiday from gaming as I focus on covering technology at the CES 2019 event in Las...
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...
How Improbable convinced SoftBank to invest $502 million in its platform for massive online game worlds
London-based technology firm Improbable has had a very improbable week. The company raised a whopping $502 million from Japan’s SoftBank for its SpatialOS platform for...
The DeanBeat: The gaming world is flat, but you can tilt it in your direction
TOKYO – I’m third-generation Japanese-American. My grandparents came from Japan as farmers about 100 years ago. I considered it an honor to be able...
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...
The DeanBeat: Why video game companies — and all of us — need to think more about A.I.
I was fascinated to meet Masayoshi Son, the CEO of SoftBank, one of the world’s biggest tech companies, this week at the ARM TechCon...
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son explains why a $100 billion fund isn’t enough
To understand Masayoshi Son, the CEO of SoftBank, you have to think of normal ambitions and multiply them by a million or so. That’s...
The DeanBeat: Will Battlefield 4 or Puzzle & Dragons reach $1B in revenues?
Puzzle & Dragons is generating $2.5 million in revenue a day.