The DeanBeat: Thanks for being part of the GamesBeat community
Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for reading GamesBeat and VentureBeat. We are grateful to our community for reading our stories, giving us news tips, commenting...
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...