I am delighted to announce our interview guests for The Game Business Live on June 8 in LA. I will be joined by industry luminaries Laura Miele (EA Entertainment), Jason Rubin (Naughty Dog co-founder) and Matthew Ball (Epyllion CEO). Tickets are on sale now! www.thegamebusiness.com/p/eas-laura-...
I guess that’s kind-of my point. Legitimate gamer, likes games…
I'm not convinced. Yves Guillemot and Lars Wingefors are two of the biggest execs I know who love games, and they've had real challenges. Same with Phil, actually.
I think it's a development schedule thing. The big studios are still making defining games, they're just taking 5+ years to do it.
If it’s good quality, I think it’s got the attention of the RPG community. But it needs to deliver
Big interview today with the head of Rebel Wolves, the studio behind The Blood of the Dawnwalker. That's the game from The Witcher devs that has around 1m wishlists.
In this week's The Game Business Micro (paid subscribers only) we discuss Amazon's simplified Luna streaming service and BAFTA giving a nod to the mobile game industry
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This would be an amazing idea.
Hi Mark. Chris@thegamebusiness.com
Really good, candid, open, chat about AI in game production. I learnt a lot.
It's a niche subject this week, but a fascinating one. The return of Kickstarter
In this week's The Game Business Micro (paid subscribers only), we discuss a huge weekend for The Super Mario Galaxy movie, a rise in revenue for third-party developers on Switch 2 and more...
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It’s not just a console problem
How about this for an unusual bonus episode of The Game Business Show… an onstage interview with stand up comic, and Taskmaster/Last One Laughing star Maisie Adam. Video only for this one as the audio is a little ropey www.thegamebusiness.com/p/watch-us-c...
I saw the Mario Galaxy movie.
Will watch again
"I don’t know why we would ever go back to working with a publisher"
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This week's Show is a chunky one as we discuss why publishers ran away from Dispatch, how it defied the trends, and what comes next for the interactive narrative game maker
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This October, I will be interviewing PlayStation legend Ken Kutaragi on stage in the UK. It's part of Game Republic New Horizons. Tickets available now. The interview will be released via TGB at a later date. www.thegamebusiness.com/p/were-speak...
Nintendo Switch 2 UK sales jumped 154% in March month-on-month following the release of Pokemon Pokopia. Nintendo accounts for over 50% of all consoles sold in the UK so far this year (Nielsen IQ)
In today's The Game Business Micro, we discuss the economic nightmare facing video game console makers, plus Nintendo's new pricing strategy (paid subscribers) open.substack.com/pub/thegameb...
It's our State of Games report! February was a tough month, but there were some winners, including Resident Evil Requiem, PUBG Mobile, Helldivers 2, Pokemon Go and Overwatch. Arc Raiders suffered a month-on-month drop of 2.4m players (paid subscribers) www.thegamebusiness.com/p/the-state-...
A new Switch game can see over 80% of sales come via physical retailers. Whereas, PS & Xbox sees the majority of new game sales happen via digital stores. If Nintendo can accelerate its digital business, it would offset the challenges it’s facing on hardware
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Struggling with the Star Fox news. Why is it whenever I put out a new episode, some earth shattering industry news breaks?
It was a useful metric around how long an episode should be
Today’s edition is mostly about Nintendo. But on the Show itself, I’m joined by @stephentotilo.bsky.social and we discuss all sorts, including the cuts at Epic Games and my first year running The Game Business.
The US is getting the digital/physical Switch 2 price difference the rest of the world has had since launch
Today, we speak to Javier Ferreira, the CEO of Scopely (that's the company responsible for Monopoly Go and Pokemon Go). We chat about the state of the games market, targeting PC and console players, Google's fee change and what it's learnt from Niantic
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We kick off the week with our Micro (which is for paid subscribers)... and we discuss yet another round of Ubisoft cuts, Nvidia's DLSS 5 controversy and Krafton's legal defeat (plus much more) www.thegamebusiness.com/p/ubisofts-d...
And coming up...
- A new member of The Game Business team
- Even more live events in London, LA, Cologne and Middlesbrough
- A new 'legendary' sub-series
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