The DeanBeat: Sorting through the significance of Sony’s PlayStation 4 revelation

We weigh the disappointments and the triumphs of Sony's big reveal.

Sony’s Shu Yoshida talks PlayStation 4: PS3/PSN compatibility, microtransactions, and more

Sony overloaded us with information about the PlayStation 4 last night, but many questions still remain.

Gamers at Work reveals the risks and emotional complications in entrepreneurship (interview)

Gamers at Work is a collection of interviews with some of the game industry's most iconic founders, developers, and entrepreneurs. It's also a handy guide for aspiring business people hoping to break into games.

How Sony could disrupt its console rivals — and itself — with its Gaikai acquisition

The disruptive effect of Sony’s $380 million acquisition of Gaikai could send reverberations throughout the video game industry.

As such, the deal will give Sony several strategic options that will help it fight the console war. With cloud gaming, the …

Samsung to compete with Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony via Gaikai cloud gaming

Samsung plans to enter the game business through a cloud-gaming service that is powered by game-streaming startup Gaikai.

The Korean electronics giant plans to announce the service at next week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). It could be a big change …

The DeanBeat: GamesBeat 2012 to focus on crossover strategies

GamesBeat 2012 is going to be all about crossover strategies. The game industry as we know it is changing. We’re seeing established companies cross over from one market to another, where once they faced barriers. As companies adapt to change, …

A roundup of stories from the Game Developers Conference

Our GamesBeat team is exhausted after five days of covering the biggest show for game developers in San Francisco. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of the major stories that we wrote from the Game Developers Conference this week. We’ve also thrown …

Gaikai signs up Warner Bros.’ Lord of the Rings Online game for instant demos

Gaikai is announcing today it has signed up another partner — Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment — for its game-streaming business where it embeds instantly playable game demos in the web sites of its publishing partners.

David Perry (pictured at last …

The DeanBeat: GamesBeat 2012 in July will focus on disruption, change, and innovation

We’ve unveiled our first speakers and other details for our fourth annual game conference, GamesBeat 2012. Our roster of speakers includes Will Wright, creator of blockbuster video games from Sim City to The Sims and Spore. Wright is now the …

Gaikai thriving with streaming game demo deals from Best Buy and others (exclusive)

Gaikai, the game streaming company, has kept a low profile recently, but a quick survey of the web shows that the company has scored some big deals with online retailers. Among those that have quietly adopted Gaikai are BestBuy.com, YouTube, …

Game-streaming firm Gaikai raises $30M

Game-streaming startup Gaikai said today it has raised $30 million in a third round of funding.

The Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based company is one of the vendors of cloud gaming, where games are computed in servers and then video of games …

Gaikai scores a whopper of a game distribution deal with Walmart.com (exclusive)

Game-streaming startup Gaikai has scored a major deal to stream high-quality video games for Walmart.com, the online division of the world’s biggest retailer, VentureBeat has learned. If the new way of selling games works out, it could mean a big …