Gaming Industry ANALYSIS
How Game Subscriptions Are Reshaping the Market
Subscription services promised players a Netflix for games — but the bigger story is how the model is quietly rewiring the economics…
Business Analysis
Deeper analysis of how games companies make and lose money — funding rounds, acquisitions, platform economics, revenue models and the strategy behind decisions that are usually announced without explanation.
These pieces take longer than news coverage and try to answer the question underneath the headline: not what a company did, but what it was responding to and what constraint it was working against.
Gaming Industry EXPLAINER
The 30% Question: Inside the Platform-Cut Debate
The fee platforms take on every digital sale sounds like an accounting footnote, but it has driven lawsuits, rival storefronts, and one…
Gaming Industry EXPLAINER
The Economics of Game Development Budgets, Explained
Blockbuster games now cost as much as blockbuster films, and that budget math shapes everything from how risky a studio can be…
Gaming Industry ANALYSIS
How the Games Industry Actually Makes Money Now
The business of games has quietly moved from selling a boxed product once to running services, storefronts, and recurring spend — and…