Month: January 2021

In recent years, vinvestor interest in the gaming industry has skyrocketed. The industry is more than video games; as multimedia experiments like Fortnite have shown, game developers embrace multiple forms of entertainment at once. Gaming technologies like Unreal engine that fuel these experiences complement traditional film, television and corporate production tools, being widely used in …

Services, not software, are the future of game enterprise tech Read More »

About a week ago I got angry again over a tweet. Specifically, it was this one from Nintendo of America, asking people if they like Mega Man or Mega Man X better. Mega Man or Mega Man X? – Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) January 21, 2021 Despite my best attempts to rally my supporters, Mega …

The RetroBeat: Classic Mega Man is better than the X series Read More »

Game companies compete with each other fiercely, so sometimes it’s news to see them come together. This is the mission behindGamers for SHOCK, A coalition of employees from gambling related companies. They came together to support Orange County Children’s Hospital (SHOCK) in Southern California. The group’s mission is to bring the gaming community together to …

Video game companies band together to help children’s hospital Read More »

I’m very proud that we were able to create an original event around the Metaverse this week and that it received good attention despite some crazy news like GameStopThe frenzy of stocks and Apple reaffirmation of its position on confidentiality in relation to targeted advertising. Our GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse and GamesBeat / Facebook: …

The DeanBeat: Our 360-degree view of the metaverse ecosystem Read More »

All the excitement around GameStop Stock bled in GamesBeat’s threads about the Metaverse. And it turns out that stock market manipulation is not exclusive to the physical world. “We’ve had some kind of small push in the economy of Eve Online,” said Hilmar Petursson, CEO of CCP, MMO Gaming Economy. “It was sort of a …

Eve Online experienced its own GameStop-like short squeeze Read More »

Many of us first think of the visual component of the metaverse, but sound will have an equally important role to play in creating compelling virtual worlds. As part of our digital In the Metaverse event, I hosted a panel with Philip Rosedale from High Fidelity and Andy Vaughan from Dolby. I was able to …

How sound technologies can bring emotion to the metaverse Read More »

Richard Bartle hope that metaverse will be a place where we can be the best of ourselves and where the operators of the virtual universe will help us achieve it. Bartle is one of the leading academics on video games and is a senior lecturer and honorary professor of computer game design at the University …

The ethics of the metaverse Read More »

When it comes to diversity, the metaverse will represent a huge opportunity to amplify the diversity of voices and creators. This is the opinion of Stanley Pierre-Louis, CEO of Gaming Industry Trade Group Entertainment Software Association. In a fireside chat with me at our GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse online event, Pierre-Louis said that the …

ESA CEO: Why diversity matters for the metaverse Read More »

The ‘How to Build the Metaverse’ panel at GamesBeat’s two-day All-Digital Metaverse event brought together speakers who take on the challenges to bring the Metaverse to life. Wanda Meloni, CEO and Senior Analyst at M2 Insights, was joined on stage by John Linden, CEO of Mythical Games, Jacob Navok, CEO of Genvid, and Chris Swan, …

What will it take to make good on the promise of the metaverse? Read More »

G4, the once popular game broadcast network that ceased airing in 2014, will bring back two fan-favorite shows – Attack of the Show! and X-Play – for the rebirth of the network. More details will come later on the hosts and talents of these programs. G4 will also launch its weekly content series B4G4 on …

G4 will revive Attack of the Show! and X-Play for network relaunch Read More »