The Leisure Economy: Where we all get paid to play games
Of all the ideas at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2018, I loved the notion of The Leisure Economy. This is about a utopia we...
Ready Player One film review — Not bad for a Spielberg film with a lot of new licenses
The tech, game, and virtual reality industries have a lot of hopes tied to Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One film, which debuts on March...
Roblox draws more than 50 million players a month to game world
Roblox has built a Lego-like virtual world where kids and teens can create their own games, and now it is drawing more than 50...
Where teens spent their gaming money this summer
Over the summer, the video game industry may lose out a bit to theme parks and museums, movies, and device-free summer camps, but video...
Player creativity is the future of gaming
Humans possess an insatiable desire to create, to build, and to shape the world around us. Examples span from rudimentary cave paintings, to the...
PC Gaming Weekly: Have you heard of … Roblox?
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and indies like Dream Daddy are capturing the imaginations of PC gamers this summer. But in the background, one name is chugging along...
The DeanBeat: Roblox’s kid developers make enough ‘robux’ to pay for college
Jackson Munsell, Brandon LaRouche and Alex Balfanz grew up in very different places. But they’re converging on San Jose, Calif., this weekend as developers...
AltspaceVR founder wants to make virtual reality as accessible as the web
Eric Romo and his cofounders at AltspaceVR want to make virtual reality as pervasive and accessible as the worldwide web. AltspaceVR is leading the...
Roblox raises $92 million in funding for its Lego-like virtual game world
Roblox said that it has raised a whopper of a round of $92 million in funding for its social platform for user-generated games. The social...
Roblox reaches 1.7 million game creators on its Lego-like platform
Roblox said that it has reached a milestone in user-generated games. It now has more than 1.7 million game creators on its Lego-like game...