The DeanBeat: A stellar week for gamers
We saw separate but wonderful visions of the game industry this week in a series of cool events.
The DeanBeat: The race between the game giants and the startups
Who will win the race in the video game business: startups or giants?
The DeanBeat: Being a tortoise isn’t so bad, but the water is choppy, EA’s top game studio boss says
Zynga was the hare. EA was the tortoise. Do we know who won the race?
The DeanBeat: OnLive’s fall from grace shows the wrong way to fall apart
Steve Perlman has become the King Lear of gaming. But does he have another act?
The DeanBeat: What’s next for Zynga as its ‘happily ever after’ fairy tale ends?
Zynga had a bad quarter, but this does not mean that social gaming is completely and utterly collapsing.
TheDeanBeat: Kickstarter isn’t indie gamemaker Double Fine’s only funding route
Double Fine Productions scored $3M from Kickstarter, but it also has other sources of revenue to keep its indie games in production.
The DeanBeat: How fast will the shift to huge growth for mobile games happen?
With the console market looking a little shaky and Facebook starting to slow down, mobile stands before the gaming industry as a potential savior.
The DeanBeat: What GamesBeat 2012 tells us about the road ahead in gaming
We had a great time at our well-attended GamesBeat 2012 conference last week talking about the road ahead in games and the Crossover Era. Here’s...
The DeanBeat: 10 takeaways about game investments from GamesBeat 2012
We examined many investment issues at GamesBeat 2012. This week's DeanBeat distills them to the 10 most important.
The DeanBeat: Even Grand Theft Auto V won’t save 2012 retail game sales
One thing is clear from the relatively disappointing showing of games at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game trade show this year. If...