The DeanBeat: The battle royale between Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Battlefield V
Activision and Electronic Arts disclosed the war plans for their big first-person shooter games of the year, and now it’s time for one of...
The DeanBeat: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 takes a lot of risks, not all good
Game development studio Treyarch is taking a lot of risks with this year’s multiplayer-only Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. And in my opinion, not...
The DeanBeat: Big money and the super-rich have descended on esports
The 4,000 or so investors and VIPs who attended the Milken Global Conference this week heard sessions about luxury brands, avoiding war in North...
The DeanBeat: God of War can fill you with a sense of awe
Jason Silva, the host of the show Brain Games, gave a talk yesterday at the Promax Games conference in San Francisco. In his best...
The DeanBeat: Tencent leads China’s domination of the global games business
If you follow the $116 billion game business, you may know that China has become the world’s biggest game market, and that Tencent is...
The DeanBeat: What we learned about the future of games this week
Each year, we hold our GamesBeat Summit event to gather the best thinking about where gaming is going. This week, at our fourth annual...
The DeanBeat: The Oasis is here, just on the wrong screen
It’s a good time for us to get inspired about games. I was delighted to see Ernest Cline’s vision for Ready Player One to come...
The DeanBeat: The joys and perils of gaming in 2018
The game industry is booming, with global revenues expected to hit $125.4 billion in 2018, according to market researcher Newzoo. But if you look...
The DeanBeat: GDC 2018 shows the heartbreaking story of Muslims in gaming
Game developer and educator Osama Dorias let out some emotion and passion during his talk on “Muslim Representation in Games.” It was one of...
The DeanBeat: Lots of reasons to be at GDC
It’s always hard to choose what to attend at the Game Developers Conference, which takes place in San Francisco next week. But in the...