This Week In The Business: Epic vs. Valve
QUOTE | “In our analysis, stores charging 30% are marking up their costs by 300% to 400%. But with developers receiving…
This Week In The Business: What's It Worth To Ya?
QUOTE | “Contrary to assertions, loot boxes are not gambling. They have no real-world value, players always receive…
This Week In The Business: Wherefore Art Thou, Sony?
QUOTE | “We are exploring new and familiar ways to engage our community in 2019 and can’t wait to share our plans with…
This Week In The Business: Streaming Picking Up Steam
STAT | $143 million - The third quarter revenue generated by PlayStation Now, according to Superdata. The research firm…
This Week In The Business: The Changing Season
QUOTE | “The actions by management from these different companies - from ArenaNet to Riot, Rockstar, Telltale, all…
This Week In The Business: Buncha Crunch
QUOTE | “That was shit. This was the hardest.” - Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says Red Dead Redemption 2 development s…
This Week in the Business: Red Dead Is Number Two With A Bullet
STAT | 2 - The ranking of Red Dead Redemption 2 on Nielsen’s list of the Most Anticipated Holiday Games of 2018. The…
This Week In The Business: The Walking Dead
QUOTE | “We’re currently still working to find a way to hand off production of episodes 3 and 4 so that the season can…
This Week In The Business: I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling
QUOTE | “Psychologically akin to gambling” - A phrase used to describe loot boxes by two researchers who conducted a…
This Week In The Business: Is Selling 50,000 Copies Enough?
QUOTE | “Our hope is to find a balance between games that sell a shitload of copies and are good, and games that may…
This Week In The Business: A Streamer's Life For Me
STAT | $30,000 - What it costs to have a top-tier streamer play your game for an hour on their channel, according to…
This Week In The Business: Difficult Evolutions
QUOTE | “We will weave this change into our cultural DNA and leave no room for sexism or misogyny. Inclusivity,…
This Week In The Business: Doubt, Confidence, and the Journeys Between
QUOTE | “My lead programmer was expecting me to say, ‘you’re right, this is crazy, we can’t do this.’ But I’m like,…
This Week In The Business: The Waiting Is The Hardest Part
QUOTE | “Assume months at this point.” - Valve representative SeanJ, in response to a developer’s question of when the…
This Week In The Business: Condolences For Consoles
QUOTE | “The console as it exists today, and your TV... In five years time, people will still have them, I imagine,…
This Week In The Business: The Customer Is Always Right?
QUOTE | “We try to remove ego from the equation completely on our side. We’re not going to make something because it’s…
This Week In The Business: Kill Your Babies
QUOTE | “We have to accept that, if we start ten projects, four are probably going to fail. I don’t know the exact…
This Week In The Business: Development Challenges, Big and Small
QUOTE | “If a player sees our game, [and] intuitively he or she is not able to compare it immediately with another…
This Week In The Business: Struggles on Steam
QUOTE | “If they upped the cost of Steam Direct to something like $500 or even $1,000, that’s not going to deter a…