Schell Games builds games that change players for the better
The video game industry is full of companies that make sequels and derivative titles. But Schell Games was started by game design professor Jesse...
The DeanBeat: 9 industry leaders sound off on the state of gaming in 2017
Interviewing some of the wisest people in the game industry is a fun part of my job. Over the past few weeks, at the Electronic...
Game investor Phil Harrison sees the broader view of games beyond Sony and Microsoft
Phil Harrison was probably the tallest person at the Gamelab gaming event in Barcelona, Spain, this week. And that, along with his decades of...
Playful’s Paul Bettner is betting on both ‘flat screen games’ and VR
Paul Bettner had a good time at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles last week. His McKinney,...
GamesBeat 2017 reveals five new speakers for The Time Machine theme
GamesBeat 2017 will take place at San Francisco’s beautiful Fort Mason on October 5 and October 6. And we’re delighted to announce our next...
Creativerse developer Playful welcomes the chance to move beyond the ‘Minecraft clone’ label
Next week is the eighth anniversary of Minecraft’s debut as a prealpha prototype, and its model for gameplay may be more influential now than...
Playful takes on Minecraft with open-world sandbox game Creativerse
Playful is launching its open-world sandbox game Creativerse on May 8 in a move that will bring it into market that Minecraft dominates. The...
Playful’s Paul Bettner: VR is just getting its start, like Disney in the 1920s
Paul Bettner has been waiting for virtual reality for decades. That’s one reason why his VR gaming studio, Playful, created Lucky’s Tale as a...
Lucky’s Tale creator Paul Bettner to speak on VR at GamesBeat Summit
We’re happy to be adding Lucky’s Tale creator Paul Bettner, the CEO of Playful, as a speaker for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s...
Lucky’s Tale sometimes feels like the Big Bad Wolf is coming at you in virtual reality
Virtual reality gives people the chance to enter incredible make-believe worlds … but the results of that are often unsettling instead of wondrous. Playful,...