Categories Posted inin Technology The DeanBeat: Great gadgets, moments, and trends at CES 2017 Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 6, 2017 9 min When the leaders of the tech industry get up on the big stages at the Consumer Electronics Show, you can learn a lot. I’m... Continue Reading 9 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay The DeanBeat: What to expect from the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 30, 2016 5 min 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... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2016 Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 23, 2016 13 min 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... Continue Reading 13 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay The DeanBeat: The road ahead in VR and AR will have two steps forward, one step back Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 16, 2016 6 min John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay The DeanBeat: Epic graphics guru Tim Sweeney foretells how we can create the open Metaverse Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 9, 2016 6 min Tim Sweeney stitched together an interesting vision of the future in a talk this week at the VRX virtual reality conference in San Francisco.... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: What they don’t tell you about making games Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 25, 2016 5 min 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... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay The DeanBeat: The game industry reacts to Trump’s triumph Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 11, 2016 11 min 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... Continue Reading 11 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: The time we put into games says a lot about us Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 4, 2016 5 min You still have time to play video games? I get that question a lot these days. I pride myself on being a game journalist... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: Nintendo aims for the gaps in the game business with the Switch Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 21, 2016 5 min The Nintendo Switch revelation video was only three minutes long, but it gave us all a lot to talk about. To me, it seemed... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: This player spent $2 million in a mobile game. Then he led a boycott. Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 14, 2016 5 min 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... Continue Reading 5 min