GameMakers
Joseph Kim, Ted ParkInsights on the F2P Video Games Industry
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The Most Important Number in Unity’s D2C Launch Is Zero
In 2002, Electronic Arts banned ICQ — the office chat app — and put a single internet terminal in the center of the building. A programmer named Steve Ganem responded with what he calls “civil disobedience”: he built his own LAN chat progra...
So This Is How The Metaverse Dies
Here’s the top of the Fortnite metaverse, as of June 20, 2026, during a Saturday night at around 8 pm EDT:
(Source: fortnite.gg)
#1. Battle Royale: 549.3k concurrent players.
#2. A battle royale variant: 97.7k
#3. Another battle royale...
🎙️ The Most Valuable Asset in Games Isn't Your Game
Here’s a contradiction worth sitting with. Earlier this year, Epic Games — the studio that spent five years and north of $100 million breaking the platforms’ 30% tax — quietly cut the value of V-Bucks by 20% to, in its own words, “pay the b...
The Last 20% Is Worth $100 Million
If you build 80% of the right game, you’re going to get like $10,000 in sales. If you build 100% of the right thing, you might get $100 million in sales.
That is Ran Mo — CEO of Proxima, creator of Suck Up!, and arguably the person with th...
GDC 2026: Relationships Are the Last Moat in Gaming
The gaming industry spent 2024 and 2025 obsessing over which jobs AI would eliminate. But the more interesting question — the one with actual strategic implications — is what AI can’t replace. Solomon Ruiz-Lichter figured out the answer thr...
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Mobile gaming executive. Interests in mobile games, health, and kids education. All opinions my own. Follow me on Insta: https://t.co/AnJIEio0Jt
Game Product Manager and Producer. Released indie multiplayer shooter At Sundown: Shots in the Dark on Steam/Consoles.
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