Content Rated By: Reflecting on the ESRB’s 25-year journey
GamesBeat is publishing this exclusive excerpt of Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB. To help commemorate its 25th anniversary, the Entertainment...
E3 boss interview — Stanley Pierre-Louis says show floor is sold out, 65,000 people expected
Just a short time ago, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was a video game trade show in crisis. Longtime CEO Mike Gallagher of the...
The DeanBeat: Telling stories at GamesBeat Summit 2019
We’ve got 97 luminaries speaking at our GamesBeat Summit 2019 event on April 23-24 in Los Angeles. I’ve spent the better part of six...
The DeanBeat: 12 predictable predictions on gaming in 2019
I’m making my annual predictions for the game industry again, not because I’m good at it, but because it has become one of the...
The DeanBeat: The madness and sanity of Sony leaving E3
Sony stunned the gaming world yesterday when it announced it will not attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show in 2019. For the...
Outgoing ESA CEO Mike Gallagher may be moving on to politics
Mike Gallagher resigned his job as CEO of the Entertainment Software Association today, after 11 years running the video game industry’s lobbying group in...
Why the game industry stays vigilant on violence claims, regulation, and disruption
The game industry is bigger than ever, with estimates of revenues as high as $150 billion worldwide. And it will draw billions of views...
E3 chief says not all of gaming’s big secrets are spoiled yet
Mike Gallagher promises that we don’t know every secret associated with new games being unveiled at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles...
E3 2018: How to survive gaming’s biggest show
I am so old I can’t remember how many times I have been to the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). I just know I missed...
The DeanBeat: Strategic zoom for the game industry
In the past nine years, I’ve written around 10,000 stories on games. In this column, I’m going to mention quotes from about 10 of...