Published on: 2025-06-08 23:15:00
Games for Change announced its 2025 special award winners, including Rachel Kowert as the winner of the gaming nonprofit’s Vanguard Award. We interviewed her and the transcript is below the announcement part of the story here. These awards, part of the Games for Change Festival happening June 26-27 in New York, recognize the exceptional contributions of individuals and organizations in the gaming industry who have made significant strides in driving positive change through their work. The G4C
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 08:30:00
Well, I’m back. It feels like I just finished a 17-year journey, and now there’s a new one starting over again. As an English major, I loved to think about the last lines of the books I’ve read. Like The Great Gatsby’s ending: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. I puzzled over this line as a student. But I knew when I read the words that they were part of a great piece of literature. If you’re here. No, if you’re one of 3.5 billion gamers on the plan
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 20:00:00
Henk Rogers, one of the grandfathers of gaming, has a new book out, The Perfect Game, and we talked about it in an interview and again in a keynote talk at the Gamescom Latam expo in Sao Paulo, Brazil. More than 131,800 people attended Gamescom Latam, with many of the fans dressed in cosplay. The dashing Rogers was dressed up in his best Tetris outfit, and in Brazil he could still find fans and admirers for a game that was more than 40 years old. Rogers noted that he worked on the script with
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 02:00:00
Thank you all for the kind words related to our announcement that GamesBeat is going independent as we spin out of VentureBeat. We can’t think of a better way to spend our time than serving this industry with our journalistic flair and our community-oriented events. It was wonderful and heartwarming to see our story go wide. My own Twitter saw more than 160,000 impressions over a couple of days as Variety covered our move as if Gina Joseph and I were celebrities. On LinkedIn and Facebook, I was
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-15 06:04:09
GamesBeat, one of the top global brands and leading news voices in gaming, entertainment, and tech industries, today announces it will become an independent media brand, under new leadership. Gina Joseph, former chief strategy officer at VentureBeat, which owned GamesBeat, is the new CEO, making history as one of the only female CEOs for a gaming media publication. Dean Takahashi, one of the gaming and tech industries’ most respected journalists, will be Editorial Director. This significant tran
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-16 04:00:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When I launched VentureBeat in 2006, the goal was clear: Chronicle the disruptive technologies rewriting how business gets done. Gaming earned a seat at that table early — so much so that in 2008, I invited Dean Takahashi to build the GamesBeat channel. Today, we’re giving that franchise full independence, freeing VentureBeat to double down on the AI, data and security
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-21 20:45:00
As an old timer in games, it’s good for me to get to know what young people on the bleeding edge of technology and games think about. I had a chance to do that with Cody “Clix” Conrod, who has millions of followers on social. He has been playing Fortnite since a young age and now he is world famous. Clix started generating tons of money and followers since he was 13, given his skills at gaming. Now he’s 20 years old and he has promo deals with brands like JBL. At SXSW, Conrod talked about bein
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-02 07:30:00
Game developers are among the most creative people on the planet, but they have had a tough 2.5 years with more than 35,000 layoffs across gaming. Some of those cutbacks were expected to ease by 2025, but we’ve seen 1,200-plus layoffs in the first quarter. The troubles are so acute that, for the second year in a row, the Independent Games Festival host Shawn Pierre, assistant professor at NYU, started out with a plea for support for game developers during a difficult time. GDC usually draws aro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-24 13:45:00
The PC has always been everything to everybody. HP is very focused on selling AI PCs, as evidenced by its lineup in January at the CES 2025 tech trade show in Las Vegas. And yet the PC is also the platform of choice for content creators and gamers. Players are crossing lines from just being passively entertained to creating their own custom games with the help of AI. Blending all the necessary tools together to make software work seamlessly is one of the things that computer makers like HP have
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