NCSoft’s Songyee Yoon believes in gaming for a better world | The DeanBeat
Songyee Yoon is president of NCSoft, the South Korean maker of online games including Aion, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Blade & Soul, Lineage,...
Resilience and adaptation on display at GamesBeat Summit 2024 | The DeanBeat
It’s been a tough time in the game industry lately and I’d like to think of our GamesBeat Summit 2024 event as an oasis. Unlock premium...
What we can learn from the Helldivers 2 and Palworld launches | The DeanBeat
When everybody shows up at once to play a game like Palworld and Helldivers 2, it’s like a thunderous stampede for the company trying...
Hypixel created 21 books full of fan condolences for Minecraft’s Technoblade | The DeanBeat
The condolences for Technoblade, a young man who was a Minecraft creator, exceeded 430,000 messages. They now fill up 21 books which were given...
The metaverse is back. But let’s not call it the metaverse | The DeanBeat
When Disney shut down its metaverse division on March 28, 2023, the end of the 50-person division was interpreted as doom for the metaverse,...
It’s good to be Kojima | The DeanBeat
As I watched this week’s trailer for Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, I had to wonder again if Kojima is a...
Tears of the Kingdom and The Last of Us | The DeanBeat
In the past week, I have had the unfortunate and fortunate circumstance to interact with the entirety of my social network — all the...
How back to normal will gaming be in 2024? | The DeanBeat
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. As a former English major, I have always wanted to write that...
My favorite games of the last 13 years | DeanBeat
I recently listed my favorite games of 2023. And since I’ve been making these lists for so long, I decided to look backward for...
Game industry predictions for 2024 | The DeanBeat
Predictions are foolish to make and yet the temptation to rush back into the breach is always a pull for me. The future is...