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Xbox Layoffs Show How Player Habits Broke Game Funding
The Xbox layoffs weren’t about bad management or greedy shareholders, they were proof that player habits broke game funding.
Aug 31 • 
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June 2025

Top 5 Startups in Video Games - Summer 2025
Five breakout startups poised to reshape the gaming industry’s core stack.
Jun 26 • 
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May 2025

🕹️ The Deals That Defined Gaming: The Roblox DPO
Gaming’s largest public offering wasn’t an IPO, it was a DPO.
May 28 • 
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Slaying the Incumbent: Roblox
The UGC toybox that became the most powerful platform in gaming.
May 6 • 
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April 2025

Talent Arbitrage Is the New IP Strategy
Why large publishers are losing the next billion-dollar franchises and how they can build a new talent pipeline to get them back.
Apr 27 • 
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The Deals That Defined Gaming: Tencent Helps Break Up Ubisoft
In a consolidating industry, one of gaming’s oldest giants splits itself apart.
Apr 27 • 
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Slaying the Incumbent: League of Legends
How genre leaders rise and fall.
Apr 27 • 
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GLP-1 and the End of Whales: Why Game Monetization Must Evolve
GLP-1 Is the Silent Disruptor of Game Monetization
Apr 27 • 
Game Industry Patch Notes
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