Playable Worlds: First comes the game, then comes the Metaverse
Raph Koster has been a guru of online games for decades, and he would love to build Metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are...
The DeanBeat: It’s time to hurry up and build the Metaverse
During this pandemic, I can’t think of anything more exciting for us to do from the comfort of our own homes than to explore...
The DeanBeat: Digital gaming events aren’t easy, but they may be the future
Next week marks our first-ever digital game conference, GamesBeat Summit Digital. We pivoted about eight weeks ago from our physical event in Los Angeles...
GamesBeat Summit Digital speakers: The Metaverse is coming
We’re taking GamesBeat Summit 2020 into a digital online-only format. And now we’re happy to welcome our next round of speakers. Register now for...
Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds raises $2.7 million for sandbox MMORPG
Online gaming veteran Raph Koster has started a new company called Playable Worlds, and it has raised $2.7 million in seed funding to change...
The DeanBeat: Our dream event with Atari father Nolan Bushnell, Respawn’s Vince Zampella and Spider-Man dude Ted Price
I’ve been dreaming about putting on a great game industry event for a long time. We’ve been doing our GamesBeat conferences for a decade...
Game devs have three choices interacting online: be a robot, log off — or risk the mob
I remember when I first went online as the representative of a big company. It was 2001, and I was working in the digital...
Raph Koster’s Postmortems helps online game devs avoid past mistakes
Raph Koster has a lot to say about making online games, as he’s been working on them for more than two decades. His new...
The cost of games
Recently I was in Anaheim giving a talk called “Industry Lifecycles.” It was intended to be a brief summary of the blog post of...
Simcoach Games creates training games that can lead to new careers
Simcoach Games makes training games that show people how to do certain kinds of jobs, and those games can sometimes lead people to adopt new...