Introducing our first speakers and theme for GamesBeat 2016: The Platform Awakens
We just finished our GamesBeat Summit 2016 event, and we were pleased with how that went. Now we’re happy to announce today that GamesBeat 2016 will...
Lionsgate’s Pilgrim Media Group teams up with ESL to create esports TV shows
Lionsgate‘s Pilgrim Media Group is pairing up with competitive game tournament organizer ESL to create unscripted digital and television programming around esports. The question...
Hollywood backs Fifth Journey to take movie-licensed games to China
Hong Kong game publisher Fifth Journey has won backing from film studios Universal Pictures, Lionsgate, and MGM Studios to create movie-based mobile games for...
How Lionsgate is trying to break the movie-game curse
Since Peter Levin joined movie studio Lionsgate last year as head of interactive ventures and games, he has been a heavy dealmaker. Levin has...
Virtual reality is gaming’s ‘Mother of Dragons’
SAN FRANCISCO — GamesBeat 2015‘s theme was Game of Thrones. And if the virtual reality platform were a character on the show, it would...
Immortals esports team raises money from an elite investment consortium
A bunch of gaming, tech, media, and sports executives have banded together to acquire a respected esports team and rebrand it as the Immortals....
Lionsgate’s Peter Levin talks the intersection of movies and games at GamesBeat 2015
Long-time entertainment industry kingmaker Peter Levin, now president of interactive ventures and games at Lionsgate, will join the ranks of dozens of games industry...
Lionsgate enlists Starbreeze to make a virtual realty game based on John Wick film
Lionsgate is teaming up with Starbreeze and others to make a virtual reality game based on Keanu Reeves’ John Wick action flick. The deal shows...
Lionsgate further embraces games — working on ‘Expendables’ mobile adaptation
Lionsgate is also involved in virtual reality and Twitch.
Lionsgate’s Peter Levin on how the game industry often botches a ‘straight-forward idea’
Lionsgate president of interactive ventures and games Peter Levin discussed the marriage of technology and software at the GamesBeat Summit yesterday before answering questions on John Wick and Kim Kardashian.