GamesBeat 2012 interview vault: Check out our archive of conversations with industry leaders

Dean Takahashi — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:00:07 +0000

As we talk to the leaders of the game business, we’re witnesses to history. So we’ve decided to make it easier for you to find our interviews with game developers, publishers, entrepreneurs, and other luminaries. We’d like to introduce you to the GamesBeat interview vault. This post has a listing for every interview that we published with game executives and other game industry movers and shakers during 2012. The 151 interviews appear in reverse chronological order, with the latest interview appearing at top.

The interview vault is similar to the GamesBeat review vault, which logs all of our past game reviews for 2012. You can also get to our latest interviews by clicking on the GamesBeat tab (on the left hand side of the main VentureBeat or GamesBeat pages) and then the interviews section within that tab. The interviewees include noteworthy game execs such as Eric Hirshberg, the chief executive of Activision Publishing, and John Smedley, the president of Sony Online Entertainment. Most of these are edited and shortened interviews in a Q&A format, so you can get a mostly unfiltered taste of what it’s like to talk to these folks.

We’ve also added our recent interview with Jen-Hsun Huang (pictured above), chief executive of Nvidia, talking about the Project Shield mobile gaming system.

What were our favorites? Well, the most hilarious interview was Sebastian Haley’s interview with comedian Jay Mohr, who hosted the DICE Summit Awards show.

Are there some people who you want us to interview in the game business in 2013? Let us know in the comments. And many thanks to David Smith for transcribing many of these interviews.

2012

12/18 Guinness World Record holder breaks down his half-hour Dark Souls speedrun

12/18 Developer Ron Gilbert unravels the mysteries of The Cave and calls time of death on physical media

12/18 Double Fine’s unusually tough Tim Schafer on dancing games and being the anti-Willy Wonka

12/14 Crytek’s chief: Nothing will beat Crysis 3′s graphics for at least two years

12/12 Sony Online Entertainment chief says online frag game PlanetSide 2 is a smashing success

12/11 Why Company of Heroes 2 could warm the frozen real-time strategy market

12/6 With a new leader, Ngmoco shoots for mobile gaming empire

12/4 ‘Reverse Tetris’ puzzler Dream of Pixels may be critically acclaimed, but how is it selling?

11/24 A soldier’s perspective on Call of Duty and its ilk

11/11 Nintendo’s Scott Moffitt gives us the latest on the Wii U launch

11/11 Angry Birds Star Wars tests just how far those funny birds can fly