DICE Summit to open with J.J. Abrams and Gabe Newell

Two of the biggest starts in entertainment will talk about creativity in the digital age at the upcoming DICE gaming summit.

PMC and Machinima will tout this year’s DICE Summit video game awards show

This year's DICE summit and game awards will be livestreamed to Machinima's 253 million monthly visitors.

Valve cofounder Gabe Newell going to be a hall of famer

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell is being honored for his contributions to the gaming industry at the 16th D.I.C.E. Awards on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013.

DICE Summit shakes up its format for game creator talks and renames industry awards

The game industry's big executive and developer summit is in for some changes.

The DeanBeat: 10 takeaways about game investments from GamesBeat 2012

We examined many investment issues at GamesBeat 2012. This week's DeanBeat distills them to the 10 most important.

GamesBeat 2012 analyzes the state of game investments

We’re pleased to announce that we have a panel on investing in the game business, one of the hottest investment categories of the past couple of years, at our annual GamesBeat 2012 conference on July 10-11 in San Francisco.

This …

Our latest round of GamesBeat 2012 speakers

VentureBeat is pleased to announce the latest speakers added to our roster for GamesBeat 2012 in San Francisco on July 10-11. We’re inviting 500 movers and shakers from throughout the games industry — social, mobile, online, and console — to …

The DeanBeat: DICE Summit entices the game industry’s insiders to Vegas

The DICE Summit (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) is well under way this week, bringing some of the game industry’s best minds together in Las Vegas for a few days of networking, thinking, talking, back-slapping, and partying. Staged by the Academy …

Elite game group recruits board members from the new guard at Nexon and Zynga

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences is an elite professional game group that puts on the annual Dice Summit gaming event in Las Vegas and selects the winners for the equivalent of the game industry’s Oscars. So it’s interesting …