GamesBeat is now independent! We're no longer a part of VentureBeat, which gives us more independence and the opportunity to do some interesting and fun stuff in the future! variety.com/2025/gaming/...
Video Game Outlet GamesBeat Spins Out From VentureBeat, Forms Separate Independent Publication (EXCLUSIVE)
Former VentureBeat chief strategy officer Gina Joseph is CEO of GamesBeat, leading alongside veteran journalist and editorial director Dean Takahashi.
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April 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
GamesBeat is now independent! We're no longer a part of VentureBeat, which gives us more independence and the opportunity to do some interesting and fun stuff in the future! variety.com/2025/gaming/...
GamesBeat spins off from VentureBeat to become 'niche independent publication'
GamesBeat spins off from VentureBeat to become 'niche independent publication'
'We are excited about this powerful new chapter for GamesBeat and the industry we are serving.'
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April 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
GamesBeat spins off from VentureBeat to become 'niche independent publication'
GamesBeat is spinning off from VentureBeat as an independent outlet, with Gina Joseph and Dean Takahashi leading.
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April 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
GamesBeat is spinning off from VentureBeat as an independent outlet, with Gina Joseph and Dean Takahashi leading.
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I once joked "they would put AI in a chainsaw if they could." I should've known better.
April 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I once joked "they would put AI in a chainsaw if they could." I should've known better.
Just saw a video that, out of nowhere, took a swing at IGN by posting the Cuphead tutorial fail clip.
Problem is, that wasn't IGN. It was Venturebeat. Which really tells you a lot about the weird axe-grinding gamers do.
Problem is, that wasn't IGN. It was Venturebeat. Which really tells you a lot about the weird axe-grinding gamers do.
September 2, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Just saw a video that, out of nowhere, took a swing at IGN by posting the Cuphead tutorial fail clip.
Problem is, that wasn't IGN. It was Venturebeat. Which really tells you a lot about the weird axe-grinding gamers do.
Problem is, that wasn't IGN. It was Venturebeat. Which really tells you a lot about the weird axe-grinding gamers do.
GamesBeat is spinning of from VentureBeat and becomes a "niche independent publication".
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April 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
GamesBeat is spinning of from VentureBeat and becomes a "niche independent publication".
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www.gamedeveloper.com/business/gam...
Paying for an enterprise license of the only major AI chatbot that calls itself “MechaHitler” and generates CSAM is like failing an IQ test.
Musk's xAI launches Grok Business amid ongoing nonconsensual deepfake controversy
Credit: VentureBeat made with Grok Imagine
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January 2, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Paying for an enterprise license of the only major AI chatbot that calls itself “MechaHitler” and generates CSAM is like failing an IQ test.
Yea but everyone should stop sharing this link. VentureBeat uses AI to generate their header images! >:(
January 21, 2024 at 4:42 AM
Yea but everyone should stop sharing this link. VentureBeat uses AI to generate their header images! >:(
Former PlayStation Studios president and initial PS member Shuhei Yoshida says he was told by Jim Ryan to take his Indies role or leave the company.
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February 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Former PlayStation Studios president and initial PS member Shuhei Yoshida says he was told by Jim Ryan to take his Indies role or leave the company.
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Today is my last day at GamesBeat! I love them and am proud of the site's new independent era, but it turns out working two fulltime jobs is a lot! I want to thank everyone there for giving me such a lovely home and for being so supportive! gamesbeat.com/thank-you-fr...
A thank you from Mike Minotti
I have been with GamesBeat since 2012, when VentureBeat bought a small, community-focused games media site called Bitmob.
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August 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Today is my last day at GamesBeat! I love them and am proud of the site's new independent era, but it turns out working two fulltime jobs is a lot! I want to thank everyone there for giving me such a lovely home and for being so supportive! gamesbeat.com/thank-you-fr...
GamesBeat has announced its independence as a media outlet, spinning off from tech news site VentureBeat
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GamesBeat becomes independent media outlet
GamesBeat has announced its independence as a media outlet, spinning off from tech news site VentureBeat.
www.gamesindustry.biz
April 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
GamesBeat has announced its independence as a media outlet, spinning off from tech news site VentureBeat
www.gamesindustry.biz/gamesbeat-be...
www.gamesindustry.biz/gamesbeat-be...
Nightshade, a free tool letting artists "poison" AI models that attempt to train on their artwork without permission, is now available to download on Mac and PC (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
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January 21, 2024 at 4:20 AM
Nightshade, a free tool letting artists "poison" AI models that attempt to train on their artwork without permission, is now available to download on Mac and PC (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
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This is Dean Takahashi, lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. And a refugee from X/Twitter. Hello Bluesky.
November 9, 2024 at 10:36 PM
This is Dean Takahashi, lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. And a refugee from X/Twitter. Hello Bluesky.
VentureBeat has gone all-in on AI images and now the site just looks like a Wix template sample.
February 4, 2024 at 2:45 PM
VentureBeat has gone all-in on AI images and now the site just looks like a Wix template sample.
How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost: open-source approach, pure reinforcement learning, not supervised fine-tuning, and building on DeepSeek-R1-Zero (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)
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January 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost: open-source approach, pure reinforcement learning, not supervised fine-tuning, and building on DeepSeek-R1-Zero (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)
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GamesBeat devient un média de jeu vidéo indépendant, séparé du site VentureBeat.
L'occasion de rappeler que "média indépendant" n'est pas synonyme de "journalisme indépendant".
De rien, ça me fait plaisir.
www.gamesindustry.biz/gamesbeat-be...
L'occasion de rappeler que "média indépendant" n'est pas synonyme de "journalisme indépendant".
De rien, ça me fait plaisir.
www.gamesindustry.biz/gamesbeat-be...
GamesBeat becomes independent media outlet
GamesBeat has announced its independence as a media outlet, spinning off from tech news site VentureBeat.
www.gamesindustry.biz
April 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
GamesBeat devient un média de jeu vidéo indépendant, séparé du site VentureBeat.
L'occasion de rappeler que "média indépendant" n'est pas synonyme de "journalisme indépendant".
De rien, ça me fait plaisir.
www.gamesindustry.biz/gamesbeat-be...
L'occasion de rappeler que "média indépendant" n'est pas synonyme de "journalisme indépendant".
De rien, ça me fait plaisir.
www.gamesindustry.biz/gamesbeat-be...
Nvidia completes its $700M acquisition of Israel-based Run:ai, which helps orchestrate GPU clouds, and plans to open source its software (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
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December 30, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Nvidia completes its $700M acquisition of Israel-based Run:ai, which helps orchestrate GPU clouds, and plans to open source its software (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
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In the article they admit that VentureBeat itself uses gen AI for article header artwork, so if you don't want to give them the click, here is Nightshade's own web page: nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html #realartmatters
August 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
In the article they admit that VentureBeat itself uses gen AI for article header artwork, so if you don't want to give them the click, here is Nightshade's own web page: nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html #realartmatters
(VentureBeat) No kidding. Investors are dumb as rocks and cannot be trusted to make decisions about the economy.
February 25, 2026 at 3:35 PM
(VentureBeat) No kidding. Investors are dumb as rocks and cannot be trusted to make decisions about the economy.
“The test found that, while the models can solve bugs, they can’t see why the bug exists and continue to make more mistakes.”
I can’t help wondering how this whack-a-mole of crufty code could stunt growth for beginners who haven’t learned to troubleshoot yet.
I can’t help wondering how this whack-a-mole of crufty code could stunt growth for beginners who haven’t learned to troubleshoot yet.
February 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“The test found that, while the models can solve bugs, they can’t see why the bug exists and continue to make more mistakes.”
I can’t help wondering how this whack-a-mole of crufty code could stunt growth for beginners who haven’t learned to troubleshoot yet.
I can’t help wondering how this whack-a-mole of crufty code could stunt growth for beginners who haven’t learned to troubleshoot yet.