The DeanBeat: The Leisure Economy — where we all get paid to play games

Dean Takahashi September 1, 2017 8:00 AM

Game Boss interview: Nexon CEO preaches focus on players, not monetization

Dean Takahashi August 25, 2017 11:30 AM

The DeanBeat: Strategic zoom for the game industry

Dean Takahashi August 25, 2017 8:00 AM

John Smedley interview: Amazon wants games with ‘ridiculous computation’

Dean Takahashi August 19, 2017 11:30 AM

Amazon bets big on gaming with high-profile hires

Dean Takahashi March 9, 2017 2:05 PM

Ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley starts Amazon game studio after Kickstarter failure

Dean Takahashi February 15, 2017 10:00 AM

Former Sony Online Entertainment boss’s Pixelmage Games studio shuts down

Jeff Grubb December 26, 2016 4:10 PM

Preview

Pixelmage’s Hero’s Song fantasy role-playing game hits early backers in November (update)

Dean Takahashi September 7, 2016 6:15 AM

Ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley cancels Kickstarter campaign for Hero’s Song role-playing game

Dean Takahashi January 26, 2016 5:15 PM

Hero’s Song RPG is the first game from ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley’s startup

Dean Takahashi January 19, 2016 8:00 AM

Exclusive

Daybreak Game Company’s John Smedley steps down as chief executive officer

Jeff Grubb July 22, 2015 7:07 PM

Lizard Squad lashes out after Daybreak Games CEO threatens cyberattacker group

Jeff Grubb July 9, 2015 2:33 PM

Beware the dark: H1Z1 players switch off when night falls on the zombie apocalypse

Dan Crawley May 14, 2015 5:21 AM

After Sony spinout, H1Z1 developer Daybreak Game Company is free to publish on new platforms

Dean Takahashi May 13, 2015 11:00 AM

H1Z1 ‘pay to win’ critics can get their money back from Sony

Jeff Grubb January 16, 2015 12:00 PM

H1Z1 now best-selling game on Steam, criticized for ‘pay-to-win’ mechanics

Dan Crawley January 16, 2015 5:38 AM

DC Universe Online grows to 18M players, with PlayStation 4 leading the way

Dean Takahashi December 4, 2014 1:30 PM

PlayStation Network, League of Legends back online after a day of outages due to DDoS attacks

Jeff Grubb August 25, 2014 9:15 AM

If you make noise in Sony's H1Z1, the zombies will come running after you (interview)

Dean Takahashi May 24, 2014 12:30 PM

This is the end: Why millions of gamers love to play in the apocalypse

Giancarlo Valdes May 7, 2014 12:00 PM

Lessons in game marketing from the Ubisoft guy whose team just won 27 awards for it (interview)

Dean Takahashi April 25, 2014 10:00 AM

Sony Online chief to game marketers: Ignore livestreaming at your own peril

Dean Takahashi April 23, 2014 12:00 PM

Sony Online chief turns directly to gamers on Reddit and Twitch to promote his zombie apocalypse game H1Z1

Dean Takahashi April 21, 2014 7:30 AM

The father of EverQuest pitches his next-generation online fantasy game world

Dean Takahashi February 3, 2014 10:00 AM

Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Free Realms, and two other Sony Online Entertainment MMOs ending

Jeff Grubb January 24, 2014 1:45 PM

Planetside 2 set to launch in e-sports haven South Korea soon

Jeff Grubb November 7, 2013 12:30 PM

GamesBeat 2013 spotlight: Meet our all-star moderators

Dean Takahashi October 27, 2013 1:00 PM

Spike TV’s Geoff Keighley to interview Sony Online’s boss John Smedley at GamesBeat 2013

Dean Takahashi October 16, 2013 11:00 AM

EverQuest Next developer cuts jobs

Jeff Grubb August 28, 2013 1:31 PM

Sony Online Entertainment shows EverQuest Next to its hardcore fans

Dean Takahashi August 2, 2013 12:00 PM

Sony and MLG will make PlanetSide 2 into a competitive e-sport with huge teams

Dean Takahashi January 25, 2013 8:00 AM

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

Dean Takahashi January 22, 2013 8:00 AM

Sony Online Entertainment chief says online frag game PlanetSide 2 is a smashing success (interview)

Dean Takahashi December 12, 2012 8:00 AM

Twitch embeds livestreaming in Sony Online Entertainment’s Planetside 2

Dean Takahashi November 2, 2012 6:00 AM

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

Jasmine Maleficent Rea August 2, 2012 7:35 PM

Sony’s free-to-play online shooter Planetside 2 will pack 2,000 players in an arena (interview)

Dean Takahashi June 18, 2012 8:00 AM

Free Realms turns three years old with more than 20 million players (exclusive)

Dean Takahashi April 30, 2012 6:00 AM

Classic online game EverQuest celebrates 13th birthday with switch to free to play business model

Heinrich Lenhardt January 31, 2012 2:05 PM

Free-to-play transition brings seven-fold revenue increase for DC Universe Online

Dan Crawley November 22, 2011 8:30 AM

Sony Online’s Free Realms picks up a whopping 20M users

Dean Takahashi October 20, 2011 10:35 AM