The DeanBeat: Who would win a game battle between Apple and Nintendo?
Years ago, way back in 2011, Apple’s Steve Jobs held a press conference during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. As Jobs was...
The DeanBeat: A tragic but almost necessary meltdown for the game industry
It was a tragic week for the industry. Women in the game industry, fed up with sexual assault, rape, and abuse, named a half-dozen...
The DeanBeat: The fears, complexities, and hopes of Hollywood games
Eric Goldberg, managing director of Crossover Technologies, told me this week at the GameDaily Connect event in Anaheim, California, that a huge amount of...
The DeanBeat: How Germany does gaming events right with Gamescom
In the past, Gamescom (the giant fan event in Cologne, Germany) was a sideshow for the worldwide game industry. Companies could choose to come...
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...