The DeanBeat: DICE Summit shows the inspirational highs and depressing lows of gaming
Shawn Layden led off this week’s DICE Summit with an inspirational speech about the need to focus on quality games, the rise of accessibility...
Sony’s Shawn Layden is skipping E3, but he’ll speak at the DICE Summit
Sony recently announced that it is dropping out of the big Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show in June for the first time in...
The Game Awards doubles viewership to 26 million livestreams
The Game Awards today announced that its 2018 broadcast more than doubled its viewership to over 26.2 million global livestreams, up 128 percent from...
Shawn Layden and Mark Cerny: from Icarus moment to managing 3,000 devs
Shawn Layden and Mark Cerny deserve a lot of the credit for why Sony’s PlayStation 4 is sitting at the top of the console...
Shawn Layden: 9 takeaways from Sony’s worldwide game studios chief
Shawn Layden is the guy at Sony who goes on stage at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) or the PlayStation Experience event, wearing a...
The DeanBeat: Where game developers still dare to bet big
In 2010 and 2011, the development team at Guerrilla Games in Amsterdam surveyed the landscape of video games. They had just shipped the sci-fi...
Fortnite debacle has PlayStation boss Shawn Layden looking at crossplay ‘possibilities’
Sony Interactive Entertainment is softening its language when it comes to cross-platform multiplayer. While the publisher has spent the last few years defending its...
Sony share price dips as Fortnite account controversy draws ire
PlayStation thinks you have enough people to play games with already, so you can’t possibly need cross-platform multiplayer to play with someone on Nintendo...
Fortnite debacle sours PlayStation’s victory lap at E3
As I enjoyed some braised chicken and a Golden Road brown ale at the PlayStation media briefing after party prior to the Electronic Entertainment...
Sony plans to show Death Stranding, Tsushima, Spider-Man, The Last of Us Part II at E3
While other games are leaking out, Sony’s own games chief spilled the beans on what the company will show at the Electronic Entertainment Expo...