The new GamesBeat: Ready to serve the industry, with your help | The DeanBeat

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 heartened to see thousands more expressions of congratulations. Our hope is that we can use this love to take advantage of what we see as great opportunities before us. I felt a bit like Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life, realizing we had friends. After all, this business of game journalism is kind of a lonely road. So many of the people who were my peers when I was younger have dropped out of the trade and moved on to something more rewarding. The GamesBeat crew at E3 2012. But I feel ... Read full article.