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The DeanBeat: This week’s tale of the game juggernauts

Gamers have many ways to keep score. This column is about how I like to look at the game companies during the busy fall season. This past week saw the launches of blockbuster games including Call of Duty: WWII, Assassin’s Creed Origins, Super Mario Odyssey, and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. We also saw earnings […]

EA results remind the industry that sports, not just Battlefield, pushes profits

Electronic Arts continues to reap benefits from its position as the leader in sports games, as both Madden NFL and FIFA Soccer produced solid results on multiple platforms in the most recent quarter. EA said that more than 50 percent of Madden NFL 18 players engaged in the “Longshot” story mode — the first such narrative […]

Amy Jo Kim: Designers should listen to super fans, not super haters

If you’ve worked in games and technology long enough, you have your Super Fans, the people who you can turn to when you’re designing a product that is targeted at a certain group of enthusiasts. They are the high value, early customers. And sadly, with the state of the Internet, you may also have your […]