Recognizing Patterns
Gaming industry pattern recognition from inside the conversations. How one game delay reshapes an entire calendar, why roguelikes are eating everything, and what studios are really doing right now.
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Your Game Console Is Competing With a Data Centre
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The consoles got more expensive as they aged. A nearly six-year-old PS5 now costs $649.99 in the US, and the cheapest Xbox now costs exactly what a Switch 2 does.
The mechanism runs through the factory, not the chi...
Premium Games Are Coming to Your Phone: The App Store Is No Longer The Door.
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Phones can run console games, and almost nobody buys them there. Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 found about 9,500 iPhone buyers at $10 and roughly 175 at its full $40 price.
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The problem is the store, not the hardware. Apple’s and...
A Free Game Engine Is Taking the Power Back
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- A game engine is the software every video game is built on: it handles the graphics, physics and sound, and packages the finished game for each platform. Because a studio’s code, art and skills all pile up inside one engine...
Nintendo Does What Everyone Else Can't
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The launch date was never the scarce thing. The scarce thing is the evening, and games compete for it with Netflix, books and sleep, none of which has a release date.
Some substitutes are closer than others. Call o...
Forty Games Avoided GTA VI by Colliding With Each Other
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- Last November I called November 2026 a dead zone for everyone except GTA VI and the foolish. Most of the industry agreed and crowded into September and October. Nintendo put its Zelda remake on 5 November anyway.
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Award-winning producer of games and animation. 25 years shipping Video Games, Peabody-winning transmedia, and securing $17M+ for studios. Now shares the intelligence that stays in publisher meetings and conference bars at 11pm.
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