The DeanBeat: The gray areas of video game violence and addiction
When President Donald Trump met with video game leaders about violence in games in March 2018, the industry worried he would use games as...
The DeanBeat: My obsession with WWII real-time strategy game Steel Division 2
Once in a while, I get obsessed with a strategy game. I played Total War: Attila for hundreds of hours in 2015. And this...
The DeanBeat: The inspiring possibilities and sobering realities of making virtual beings
I had the pleasure of attending the first-ever Virtual Beings Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday, where I met real people talking about making...
The DeanBeat: Would politics make video games better?
As I watched my Facebook feed explode about President Donald Trump’s racist comments this week, I couldn’t help but notice that game developers are...
The DeanBeat: A few days without game journalism and a few days without gaming
Last week I went on my summer vacation for a few days. It was a rare victory for those of you who would like...
The DeanBeat: Great moments with game developers at Gamelab 2019
I’m always hungry when I go to Gamelab, the video game conference in Barcelona that is curated each year by Ivan Fernandez Lobo. I...
The DeanBeat: The real and the fake trends of gaming in 2019
When my Uber driver discovered I was going to the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), he exclaimed, “Are you in games? I was the voice...
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of E3 2019
They should make a video game about my Journey through the 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). For the 23rd time, I bounced around like...
The DeanBeat: What to expect at E3
The rites of spring are upon us again with the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles that starts...
The DeanBeat: The building blocks of better AR/VR at Augmented World Expo
Most of the tech at the Augmented World Expo 2019 event wasn’t about games. But it was still intriguing for me to see the...