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...
The DeanBeat: How technology is advancing the cause of women in video games
I did something quite fun the other day that I haven’t done in decades. In fact, I have never done it. I played EA Sports...
The DeanBeat: GamesBeat 2015 will reveal the state of the game industry
Since I’ve been writing about games for 19 years and I’ve been running our GamesBeat conference for seven years, I’m often asked about the...
The DeanBeat: Apple TV fails to kill off the video game consoles
Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo can all breathe a sigh of relief. Apple had the living room video game console makers in its gun sights,...
The DeanBeat: Will we see an indie boom or an indie apocalypse as mobile goes triple-A?
Everybody wants to see indie game developers succeed. The rags-to-riches fairy tale of the lone developer striking it rich is like a green light,...
The DeanBeat: EA prospers by thinking about gamers
Andrew Wilson’s reign as the chief executive of Electronic Arts has certainly been good for investors. At EA’s annual meeting last week, shareholders didn’t ask...
The DeanBeat: Casual Connect shows that the game business is a daily Darwinian struggle
The Casual Connect game conference was a big affair this week in San Francisco, and it was a bellwether for the health of the...