Aaron Loeb has been a leader in the games industry for thirty years. He has fostered the creative work of, and provided executive leadership to, some of the greatest game teams in the world making blockbuster hits played by over a billion people and generating multiple billions of dollars in revenue. He has served as CEO at Planet Moon Studios, VP and GM at Electronic Arts (Simpsons: Tapped Out), President of Studios Kabam (Marvel: Contest of Champions), Fox and Disney (Marvel: Strike Force), and until 2023, Chief Business Officer of Scopely. At Scopely, he oversaw the company's slate and development process, as well as product strategy, creating Scopely's system of internal development. The first fully-internally developed game Scopely has ever released, Monopoly Go! has become a generation-defining hit. Sometimes called "the most acquired person in the games industry," Loeb led the sale of Planet Moon to Big Point, and was a key leader in the sale of Kabam to Netmarble, the sale of Aftershock (a Kabam spinout) to Fox, and FoxNext to Scopely. In 2023, he left Scopely with its acquisition by Savvy and has, since that time, been advising startups around the world, in large part in his capacity as Operating Partner at Griffin Gaming Partners. He lives in London with his wife, an international human rights lawyer.
Each of the large, scaled technology companies, namely Meta, NVIDIA, Alphabet, Apple, Netflix, and Amazon, have each expressed interest in playing a foundational role in shaping what the next phase of the internet looks like. This might take the form of a โmetaverse,โ which will be enabled by VR / AR, and powered by spatial computing and AI, offering rich, immersive entertainment experiences. The videogames industry does all of these things well today, but most developers and publishers lack the enormous scale and infrastructure required to do this on their own. Why then, has Big Tech expressed such keen interest in gaming, without doing something big and strategic? Instead, we have seen smaller, organic efforts to this point.
This session aims to try and unpack all of this.
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