The DeanBeat: My most anticipated games of 2020
The recent airing of The Game Awards showed us some big games that are coming out in 2020, so we can make our own...
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2019
Games grew to a $148.8 billion market in 2019, up 9.6% from 2018 and reaching over 2.5 billion people across the globe. Console games, the...
The DeanBeat: Do blockbuster games require more people to make than movies?
We saw plenty of blockbuster games — some still in the making — last night at The Game Awards, an event that is often...
The DeanBeat: GamesBeat Summit 2020’s first speakers on the Dawn of a New Generation
GamesBeat Summit 2020 is coming a little too fast for my taste, but it’s time to start telling people about our cool event that...
The DeanBeat: Black Friday lets us enjoy the low cost of computing and entertainment
I’ve done some conspicuous consumption already during the holiday season, even though Black Friday is barely upon us. A series of unfortunate incidents have...
The DeanBeat: Helsinki is still a hotbed for mobile games and tech
This week, I found myself at a party at Löyly, a sauna and bar at the edge of the Baltic Sea in Helsinki, Finland....
The DeanBeat: What does video game history mean to you?
I’m about to co-write another video game history book: volume 2 of The Ultimate History of Video Games. My friend Steven Kent wrote the...
The DeanBeat: Gaming is still at the mercy of larger forces
The week was thick with gaming news, so some folks may not have noticed that Playtika, the Tel Aviv-based social casino games company, is...
The DeanBeat: Death Stranding and the madness or genius of Hideo Kojima
Very soon, starting on November 8, we’re going to find out one of the answers to one of the great mysteries of the video...
The DeanBeat: Coming to terms with brutality in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Everybody has a line. We all draw it in different ways. That’s the theme of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, this year’s first-person combat...