The DeanBeat: How Warner Bros. rescued Avalanche Studios after Disney buried it
Disney and Warner Bros. have taken very different strategies in video games, and Avalanche Software, the decades-old Salt Lake City development studio, was caught...
The DeanBeat: 10 predictions for games in 2017
Every year I make wildly inaccurate predictions about the future of games, and that time has come again. I go through this exercise not...
The DeanBeat: Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers are full of surprises
In its past two game consoles, Nintendo tried to pack most of its innovation in the controller. And with the Nintendo Switch, the company...
The DeanBeat: Great gadgets, moments, and trends at CES 2017
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...
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...