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Successful game industry pros talk about their struggles with depression
Mental wellness becomes a forefront issue for game professionals during pandemic
GamesBeat Summit Visionary Awards — Honoring two who shed light on mental illness in games
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GamesBeat Summit Digital speakers: John Smedley, Glen Schofield, and Jessica Chobot
The DeanBeat: The Leisure Economy — where we all get paid to play games
Game Boss interview: Nexon CEO preaches focus on players, not monetization
The DeanBeat: Strategic zoom for the game industry
John Smedley interview: Amazon wants games with ‘ridiculous computation’
Amazon bets big on gaming with high-profile hires
Ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley starts Amazon game studio after Kickstarter failure
Former Sony Online Entertainment boss’s Pixelmage Games studio shuts down
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Pixelmage’s Hero’s Song fantasy role-playing game hits early backers in November (update)
Ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley cancels Kickstarter campaign for Hero’s Song role-playing game
Hero’s Song RPG is the first game from ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley’s startup
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Daybreak Game Company’s John Smedley steps down as chief executive officer
Lizard Squad lashes out after Daybreak Games CEO threatens cyberattacker group
Beware the dark: H1Z1 players switch off when night falls on the zombie apocalypse
After Sony spinout, H1Z1 developer Daybreak Game Company is free to publish on new platforms
H1Z1 ‘pay to win’ critics can get their money back from Sony
H1Z1 now best-selling game on Steam, criticized for ‘pay-to-win’ mechanics
DC Universe Online grows to 18M players, with PlayStation 4 leading the way
PlayStation Network, League of Legends back online after a day of outages due to DDoS attacks
If you make noise in Sony's H1Z1, the zombies will come running after you (interview)
This is the end: Why millions of gamers love to play in the apocalypse
Lessons in game marketing from the Ubisoft guy whose team just won 27 awards for it (interview)
Sony Online chief to game marketers: Ignore livestreaming at your own peril
Sony Online chief turns directly to gamers on Reddit and Twitch to promote his zombie apocalypse game H1Z1
The father of EverQuest pitches his next-generation online fantasy game world
Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Free Realms, and two other Sony Online Entertainment MMOs ending
Planetside 2 set to launch in e-sports haven South Korea soon
GamesBeat 2013 spotlight: Meet our all-star moderators
Spike TV’s Geoff Keighley to interview Sony Online’s boss John Smedley at GamesBeat 2013
EverQuest Next developer cuts jobs
Sony Online Entertainment shows EverQuest Next to its hardcore fans
Sony and MLG will make PlanetSide 2 into a competitive e-sport with huge teams
GamesBeat 2012 interview vault: Check out our archive of conversations with industry leaders
Sony Online Entertainment chief says online frag game PlanetSide 2 is a smashing success (interview)
Twitch embeds livestreaming in Sony Online Entertainment’s Planetside 2
