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...
The DeanBeat: The week in the console and game engine wars
In what was supposed to be the quietest of weeks, we got some real news. Amazon announced that would open-source its Lumberyard game engine...
The DeanBeat: How fun finds a way around friction
In an old Saturday Night Live skit, actor Garrett Morris rubbed two balloons on his sweater, and they stuck to his chest. It was...
The DeanBeat: Social numbers show who won the virtual E3 2021
I always like to pick my favorites from the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), and I listed what I liked best at the all-digital E3...
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of E3 2021
I absentmindedly searched for my favorite games of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2020. Then I remembered we didn’t have an E3 show...
The DeanBeat: Watching the Darwinian competition of E3 unfold from afar
We’re on the cusp of another Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), but this is one that we haven’t seen before, as the game industry’s big...
The DeanBeat: Do game company valuations make sense?
We’re getting a good picture of what games are worth because so many transactions are happening in the game industry. I thought it would...