The DeanBeat: Worldwide game revenues weren’t too shabby in 2015
China may have hit the pause button, and the stock markets around the world tanked. Game investments and game industry acquisitions fell sharply in...
The DeanBeat: The 10 best technologies of the Consumer Electronics Show
I’ve returned from the biggest battleground of tech, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. My Intel Basis Peak smartwatch told me that, over...
The DeanBeat: Our preview of next week’s CES 2016 tech extravaganza
I made my predictions last week about what will happen in games in 2016. But next week, I’m going to expand my horizons beyond games...
The DeanBeat: 10 predictions for the game industry in 2016
The video game business is unpredictable. But if you can predict the trends with a reasonable degree of accuracy, your company can gain a...
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2015
The time has come to name my favorite games of the year. I’ve put this day off as long as possible. I love the...
The DeanBeat: For Microsoft, it’s time to worry about the console war
The evidence is piling up. Sony’s grip on the console business with the PlayStation 4 is starting to look unbreakable. Microsoft has to start...
DeanBeat: A big brain dump on video games in Montreal
MONTREAL — It’s a wonderful and merciless exercise to force speakers to talk about something important in just five minutes. I saw that recently...
The DeanBeat: Paris may give us a moment of clarity about who we pretend to be
MONTREAL — Video games are not detached from the real world. We use them to remind us of real life, or sometimes to escape...
The DeanBeat: The top 25 public game companies have changed drastically in five years
Five years ago, not many people outside of China had heard of Tencent. But today, the company heads the list of the top 25 public companies...
The DeanBeat: Seattle event marks the accelerated growth of virtual reality and augmented reality
SEATTLE — It’s not easy to find benchmarks for the excitement around virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — two technologies that are...