The DeanBeat: What to expect from the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show
I spend most of the year laser-focused on games. But next week, I’m going to expand my horizons beyond games to the entire tech...
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2016
Let’s face it: 2016 was a bad year in so many uncountable ways. But when it comes to video games, it was a great...
The DeanBeat: The road ahead in VR and AR will have two steps forward, one step back
John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of...
The DeanBeat: Epic graphics guru Tim Sweeney foretells how we can create the open Metaverse
Tim Sweeney stitched together an interesting vision of the future in a talk this week at the VRX virtual reality conference in San Francisco....
The DeanBeat: What they don’t tell you about making games
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I’m thankful that you are taking some time to read GamesBeat and this column. Today’s the...
The DeanBeat: The game industry reacts to Trump’s triumph
Donald Trump has many targets for change, but he hasn’t drawn his cross hairs on the video game industry yet. In fact, it’s hard...
The DeanBeat: The time we put into games says a lot about us
You still have time to play video games? I get that question a lot these days. I pride myself on being a game journalist...
The DeanBeat: Nintendo aims for the gaps in the game business with the Switch
The Nintendo Switch revelation video was only three minutes long, but it gave us all a lot to talk about. To me, it seemed...
The DeanBeat: This player spent $2 million in a mobile game. Then he led a boycott.
Gree, the Japanese game company that owns mobile games such as Modern War, hit the gold mine with Stephen Barnes of Houston. The 59-year-old...
The DeanBeat: How Oculus’ Mike Abrash took my mind off Palmer Luckey
If anyone could take my mind off the missing-in-action Palmer Luckey at the Oculus Connect conference, it was Michael Abrash, chief scientist of Oculus,...