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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

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

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