Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: More terrible predictions for the game industry in 2014 (poll) Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 3, 2014 10 min Microsoft and Sony will be in a dead heat, and Nintendo will shed the Wii U. Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business Best and Worst of 2013: The biggest surprises Posted byby GamesBeat December 29, 2013 5 min Come relive the biggest surprises the year had to offer with our look back at 2013's most unexpected moments! Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Virtuix’s Jan Goetgeluk sees big things for virtual reality in wake of Oculus VR funding (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 23, 2013 7 min The enthusiasm for the Oculus VR could spread to a larger ecosystem of peripherals. Continue Reading 7 min
Categories Posted inin Business The top gaming stories of 2013 Posted byby GamesBeat December 20, 2013 5 min Next-gen consoles, disastrous game launches, and copyright controversy topped 2013. Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Oculus VR’s Brendan Iribe on raising $75M and building the next-generation consumer virtual reality (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 14, 2013 13 min Oculus VR CEO explains why Marc Andreessen's firm led a $75M round on the promise of a new consumer prototype for virtual reality goggles. Continue Reading 13 min
Categories Posted inin Business GamesBeat weekly roundup: YouTube crackdown, award-show reveals, and Oculus VR gets massive funding Posted byby Mike Minotti December 13, 2013 4 min Check out our entire week's worth of gaming coverage. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: With Valve’s Steam Machines and Oculus VR’s funding, gaming innovation is getting interesting Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 13, 2013 4 min With so much money behind it, the underdog doesn't looks so weak anymore. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Oculus VR raises $75M round led by web browser inventor Marc Andreessen's VC firm to launch virtual-reality goggles Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 13, 2013 3 min Oculus VR will use the money to fund the commercial launch of its virtual reality gaming goggles. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Doom, Quake guru John Carmack officially leaves id Software for Oculus Rift maker Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 22, 2013 1 min Carmack officially leaves the studio he co-founded in the 1990s. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business GamesBeat weekly roundup: GamesBeat 2013, PlayStation 4 won’t stream content from PCs, and FAA lifts tech restrictions Posted byby GamesBeat November 1, 2013 3 min If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed. Continue Reading 3 min