The DeanBeat: Among the believers of the NFT gaming revolution
I made it out to a party for the first time in a while in San Francisco. Friends of Gabby Dizon, founder of Yield...
The DeanBeat: Life Is Strange: True Colors — discovering emotions, identity, and your story
I love Dontnod Entertainment’s Life Is Strange games because they’re always celebrations of diversity, with interesting characters who are fleshed out with relationships and...
The DeanBeat: Twitch hack exposes more industry secrets
Perhaps the lesson of the leak of a trove Twitch‘s data, source code, and internal tools is that we can expect this to happen...
The DeanBeat: What’s coming next for the games industry
The core of the game industry is doing just fine. By various measures, it grew users and revenues by 23% last year when the...
The DeanBeat: Riz Virk interview — Do we live in The Simulated Multiverse?
Rizwan “Riz” Virk is a successful entrepreneur, investor, bestselling author, video game industry pioneer, and indie film producer. We’re also not quite sure if...
The DeanBeat: Interpreting what Epic v. Apple means for games
A federal judge last week issued a landmark ruling in Epic Games antitrust lawsuit against Apple over how Apple runs the App Store and...
The DeanBeat: Sony shows off its immersive worlds coming … someday
Sony showed off an impressive lineup of games with immersive worlds at the PlayStation Showcase, but it also used familiar sleight of hand that...
The DeanBeat: Will the metaverse bring the second coming of Second Life?
The idea of the metaverse is getting more buzz than ever. I gave a speech on it yesterday to Sharad Devarajan’s class of MBA...
The DeanBeat: A delicious fall season is coming for gamers
With Geoff Keighley’s Gamescom Opening Night Live wrapped up on Wednesday, we now have a good rundown of all of the big game launches...
The DeanBeat: The learnings of the week in games
The online-only Game Developers Conference had 550 talks scheduled this week, and some of them are still happening today. They reminded me what I love...