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...
The DeanBeat: Riot Games sheds its image as a single-game company
League of Legends is a decade old, and it has become a cultural phenomenon, a rare achievement for any video game. It is an...
The DeanBeat: PlayStation 5, Blizzard’s blunder, and Harold Ryan’s big bet
Thanks for reading The DeanBeat and supporting our independent journalism. This is a good time to announce that our GamesBeat Summit 2020 web site...
The DeanBeat: How esports is growing for real and the brands are diving in
Esports has been branded as a bunch of hype. But brands seem to have no choice but to dive in as they seek out...
The DeanBeat: Consumer VR is making snail-like — but steady — progress
We are all waiting for the predictions of Mike Abrash to come true. The head of Facebook’s Reality Lab believes virtual reality has the...
Hollywood and games 4.0 — How the love-hate relationship has evolved over time
NBCUniversal decided to shut down its game publishing division after almost three years. The company will go back to a strategy of licensing games...
The DeanBeat: After all these years, Hollywood still doesn’t get games
NBCUniversal made a big mistake this week by deciding to shut down the game publishing business that Chris Heatherly spent almost three years building....