The UNBOXING Podcast
Joost van Dreunen, ChrisTwo NYU professors unlock the secrets of the games business
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✏️🎮 Games Industry Growth, Bobby Kotick & the Fight for Games Journalism
This week on UNBOXING, Laine and Joost are back to unpack two stories that raise big questions about power, money, and accountability in the games industry.
First up: is the games industry really growing as much as the headlines suggest? J...
✏️🎮 Free-to-Play, Game Design & the AI Shakeup
This week on UNBOXING, Joost sits down with longtime games industry consultant Teut Weidemann for a special interview about the business and design of free-to-play games — and the enormous changes coming to the industry.
Teut has spent dec...
✏️🎮 The Kids Act, Consolidation & the Future of the Games Industry
This week on UNBOXING, Laine and Joost dig into two of the biggest structural questions facing the games industry right now: how should games be regulated when it comes to kids, and what happens when the industry becomes increasingly concen...
🎮💸 Roblox Everywhere, the Slopocalypse, and Who Actually Owns Your Games?
This week on UNBOXING, Laine and Joost dive into some of the biggest questions facing the games industry right now: Who owns the things we buy in games? Who is responsible for keeping players safe? And what happens when a platform becomes b...
🎮📊 What Do College Students Actually Play? Inside the 2026 Games Industry Classroom
This week on UNBOXING, Laine and Joost take a break from the industry news cycle to look at something a little closer to home: what do today’s college students actually do when they play games?
Every semester, the two professors survey the...
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