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,...
The DeanBeat: Westworld finds the frontier between the real and the virtual, between humans and A.I.
HBO’s Westworld debuts on Sunday as a major TV show that delves into enduring sci-fi and morality themes about whether we should create human-like...
The DeanBeat: Using creativity to determine your own destiny in games
In the past week, I combed the San Francisco Bay Area to find the most inspiring game developers. I went from Cupertino to Novato, from...
The DeanBeat: The intersection of sci-fi, video games, and real-world tech
Video game designer Will Wright was fond of saying that a dog-eared copy of Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash was the business plan...
The DeanBeat: Let the shooter wars begin
It’s that time of year when Battlefield and Call of Duty go to war. Both sides are about to make a lot of noise...
The DeanBeat: What Pokémon Go has done for augmented reality
For more than five years, Vuforia has been selling augmented reality. More than 30,000 apps have used the Vuforia platform for AR, which is...