How Amir Satvat finds jobs for thousands of game industry people | The DeanBeat
Amir Satvat is the undisputed game job champion. During the game industry’s worst job downturn in the past 2.5 years, about 35,000 game jobs...
Territory Studio designs future-facing interfaces for everything from cars to games | The DeanBeat
Marti Romances, creative director and cofounder of Territory Studio, has created “future-facing” designs for everything from a GM concept car to the user interfaces...
The Google/Epic Games app store showdown goes before Court of Appeals | The DeanBeat
We had a rare peek this week into the legal world of antitrust and its enforcement in the games industry. Google is appealing its...
Survive until 25? We’re off to a rough start | The DeanBeat
Last year, the saying going around the game industry was Survive until 25. The hope was that things would get better after a very...
Will the bluster and thought leadership of the game industry go quiet? | The DeanBeat
I’m a fan of transparency. Because, as the big newspaper says, “Democracy dies in darkness.” There’s an analogy here for the game business where...
Matthew Ball explains what happened to the gaming boom and our chances for recovery | The DeanBeat
Matthew Ball, CEO of Epyllion and author of The Metaverse book, dropped 220 slides in an early access deck this week that explained what...
My most anticipated games of 2025 | The DeanBeat
I’m going to keep this post short as Rachel Kaser is giving this topic the real treatment. I wanted to weigh in on my...
Holiday gift suggestions for your gamer | The DeanBeat
OK, I’ve been a little late coming up with my holiday gift guide, as we’ve already passed both Black Friday and Cyber Monday. But...
How South Korean gaming veteran Joonmo Kwon sees the new reality for Web3 games | The DeanBeat
Joonmo Kwon, a former CEO of Nexon, is an example of an established game developer who decided to march into the wilds of Web3...
How gaming can get back to balanced growth | The DeanBeat
This week, we had 42 sessions and 97 speakers at our GamesBeat Next 2024 event. And many of them spoke around our theme of...