The DeanBeat: What Ready Player Two tells us about the metaverse
I was a fanboy for Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One book and the 2018 Steven Spielberg movie based on it. And so when the...
Toya and Zag Games team up for Miraculous Ladybug & Cat Noir adventure game on Roblox
Israeli game studio Toya has teamed up with Zag Games to create a new game for Roblox: Miraculous Ladybug & Cat Noir. The game...
Roblox raises $520 million at $29.5 billion valuation, will go public through direct listing
User-generated game platform Roblox has raised $520 million in a new round of funding, and it will still go public through a direct listing where...
The DeanBeat: Predictions for gaming in 2021
This past year was one of the most unpredictable in all of human history. The pandemic threw off our ability to predict what will...
2020 was the year of connected social games
The pandemic happened to all of us. And while the early sentiment that we were all in this together fell apart in the United...
What 5 billion-dollar games tell us about mobile in 2020
The mobile game industry has been one of the biggest growth sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research firm Sensor Tower estimates that the global...
YouTube Gaming’s Ryan Wyatt on gaming’s explosive growth in 2020
The year is just about over, and perhaps the only things worth celebrating about 2020 are the memories of the hot videos on YouTube...
Roblox partners with Ernest Cline on Ready Player Two event
Ready Player Two, the highly anticipated sequel to Ernest Cline’s worldwide best-selling book Ready Player One, debuts in the U.S. and U.K. on November...
The DeanBeat — Here’s my Thanksgiving DeanBits
This is my last column before Thanksgiving and before the Black Friday frenzy, and so I thought it would be better to write a...
Roblox files for IPO, a first for user-generated game platforms
User-generated game platform Roblox publicly disclosed its filing to go public on the U.S. stock market today. The company did not say how much it...