Savvy Games Group is focused on its own growth instead of reading economic tea leaves | Brian Ward Posted byby GamesBeat March 28, 2025 8 min The game industry is in the midst of recovering from tough times, but Savvy Games Group is staying focused on making it’s own growth... Continue Reading 8 min
Matthew Ball explains what happened to the gaming boom and our chances for recovery | The DeanBeat Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 17, 2025 3 min Matthew Ball, CEO of Epyllion and author of The Metaverse book, dropped 220 slides in an early access deck this week that explained what... Continue Reading 3 min
Matthew Ball overhauls The Metaverse book in its second edition Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 23, 2024 4 min Matthew Ball estimated that 70% of the second edition of his book The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet is brand new. That’s a pretty... Continue Reading 4 min
Matthew Ball and A16z’s James Gwertzman discuss how to unlock the metaverse Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 24, 2022 6 min There is a lot of breathless speculation about how transformative the metaverse might be. This morning we heard from two leaders who are good... Continue Reading 6 min
Matthew Ball explains the significance of the metaverse in new book Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 19, 2022 20 min Over the past four years, Matthew Ball, CEO of investment firm Epyllion and the former global head of strategy for Amazon Studios, has been... Continue Reading 20 min
The DeanBeat: The problem of the sniper and the metaverse Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 14, 2022 8 min I’ve been talking with our speakers for our upcoming metaverse event to get a preview of their views on challenges in building the metaverse.... Continue Reading 8 min
The DeanBeat: Get ready for an awesome GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 event Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 17, 2021 6 min I’m getting very excited about our awesome GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 event coming in just six weeks. And it feels like the... Continue Reading 6 min
Creating $Meta — How the Metaverse ETF thinkers picked stocks so you can invest in the metaverse Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 9, 2021 9 min The metaverse feels like it could be years away from reaching its full fruition, but a group of visionaries think of it as the... Continue Reading 9 min
GamesBeat Summit Next’s agenda is full of ways to level up gaming Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 1, 2021 16 min We packed a lot of inspiring speakers and sessions into our GamesBeat Summit Next event coming on November 9-10. This post gives you a... Continue Reading 16 min
GamesBeat Summit Next: Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, Niantic’s John Hanke, Xbox’s Sarah Bond Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 15, 2021 5 min Sometimes you need people to inspire you to greater heights and to believe that some amazing technology is just around the corner. That’s what... Continue Reading 5 min