For 2025, 25% of single-player games with a $60+ price tag are coming out this month (September) www.thegamebusiness.com/p/are-video-...

Newzoo thinks some AAA companies are getting release dates wrong. But is that fair? We are joined by Emmanuel Rosier to discuss the pressures around when to launch your game www.thegamebusiness.com/p/are-video-...

"We probably won't maintain the revenue that we currently are when we make these monetisation changes to RuneScape. That's the truth" www.thegamebusiness.com/p/jagex-prep...

In 2022, console hardware revenue surpassed $6.6 billion in the US (Circana data), the highest it has ever been. That was down to $4.9bn in 2024, but that’s still more than almost every year during the previous console generation. www.thegamebusiness.com/p/are-video-...

Video game consoles face a challenging future due to rising costs and an ageing user base, predict leading data firms. www.thegamebusiness.com/p/are-video-...

The average age of console players in 2024 was 27.9 years old. That’s up from 24.2 years old in 2018. www.thegamebusiness.com/p/are-video-...

"The number of active PS5 and Xbox Series consoles will be 14 million behind what the PS4 and Xbox One achieved during the same point in their lifecycle" www.thegamebusiness.com/p/are-video-...

In today's edition of The Game Business Show and Newsletter, we ask the question... is the video game console sector in crisis? All the data is in the newsletter. Meanwhile, the podcast features Gamefile founder and reporter Stephen Totilo www.thegamebusiness.com/p/are-video-...

"In the past Relic has taken a long term to get games to market and those long gaps means we lose touch a bit with player behaviors, with trends, and we're out of sight and out of mind. So making games faster is a key ingredient to our strategy.” www.thegamebusiness.com/p/life-after...

We have two interviews for you today! Both under 15 minutes, and both with former Sega studios best known for strategy games. We chat to Relic and Amplitude on what they've discovered going independent, and their dreams for the challenged strategy genre www.thegamebusiness.com/p/life-after...

“There will be situations where age assurance is a hard requirement under the Online Safety Act. But there are other situations when it might be recommended, and you might think there are other ways you can protect users" www.thegamebusiness.com/p/developers...

If a game has a chat option, or user-generated content, does that mean children in the UK can’t play it? www.thegamebusiness.com/p/developers...

Video game industry growth will lag behind inflation again in 2025 (again) www.thegamebusiness.com/p/developers...

The Game Business Show is coming to London! We're part of the EGX/MCM Investment Summit where we (well, me) will be interviewing game legend Peter Moore. It's October 24, and free - you just need to apply for an Industry Pass (includes Comic-con access) www.mcmcomiccon.com/london/en-us...

Online safety laws being introduced in the UK, Australia and Europe is impacting what modes developers are putting in their games. We chat to legal firm Wiggin about the misunderstandings and realities of the laws designed to protect children online www.thegamebusiness.com/p/developers...

“Retro has to confront something that a lot of modern gaming used to confront, but really doesn't anymore… and that’s how to be better than free?” www.thegamebusiness.com/p/can-atari-...

In Newzoo's latest report, it estimates console users will increase just 2.5% this year. By comparison, PC is expected to grow 3.1% & mobile 4.5%. Consoles also represent the smallest audience (645m, while PC has 936m). However, console revenue will jump due to higher costs

“It does worry me that [retro games] is one of the things [companies] have shown a lot of interest in, because it'll probably pull down the average quality of [these games]. Will that destroy interest in them? It’s something we need to keep in mind" www.thegamebusiness.com/p/can-atari-...

Our Reader Survey closes this week! We would like to know more about you, what you think of us and where you think we should be heading. It’ll only take a minute! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"We've found our place for now. But I would love for Atari to be more than just retro games at some point in the future" www.thegamebusiness.com/p/can-atari-...

People looking for jobs in games today have a 15% chance of getting one. If you're new to games with less than 3 years of work experience, you have between a 5 - 7% chance. If you're over 50... you also only have a 5 - 7% chance. www.thegamebusiness.com/p/over-50-of...

"It may be that if you want to stay in the game industry, being open to going to places like China, like Japan -- not forever, but for some amount of time -- is going to become a larger part of the equation.” www.thegamebusiness.com/p/over-50-of...

In mid-2022, and back then 25% to 30% of open roles were ‘remote’ positions (working from home). Now, that number sits between 10% and 13%. www.thegamebusiness.com/p/over-50-of...

“Over 70%, and in some years 75%, of the layoffs have been in North America. North America used to have 30%, 35%, 40% of the open roles, and that number is now down to 25%" In today's edition, we dive into the video game jobs market www.thegamebusiness.com/p/over-50-of...

“These campaigns they did for Quake 1 and 2… that was a lot of work that people put into them, and it started to compete with their day job. Because you need to ship, and that is always the hard part. But they want to consider it a hobby.” www.thegamebusiness.com/p/the-indian...

This week's edition of @thegamebusiness.com features one of the all time great quotes ever seen in a video games business interview www.thegamebusiness.com/p/the-indian...

“As for Game Pass… We know the behavior of players. They jump in for five minutes and they drop out.” www.thegamebusiness.com/p/the-indian...

This week, we spoke with MachineGames, and we learnt about its fight club in the basement, and why they love making levels for Quake and Doom (as in, the original Quake and Doom) www.thegamebusiness.com/p/the-indian...

“The most important horrors... Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil 0, Resident Evil 4… were available on Nintendo GameCube. It was a gold time for Nintendo fans. We would like to be the one to open a new chapter for Nintendo right now.” www.thegamebusiness.com/p/lego-batma...

Some of the biggest Wishlisted games of Gamescom 2025 received very little media coverage, including Valor Mortis, Road Kings, Zero Parades, Denshattack!, Long Gone, La Divina Commedia and Routine www.thegamebusiness.com/p/lego-batma...

"Shadow drops remain a high-risk strategy" - and other stories from our Gamescom panel on the state of video game marketing www.thegamebusiness.com/p/cyberpunk-...

In today's episode of The Game Business Show, we look at the winners of Gamescom 2025, and interview Bloober Team and discover their secret Nintendo dream www.thegamebusiness.com/p/lego-batma...

The rise of niche, specialist media publications is a challenge for PR (and other stories) Leading media, PR and creative experts share their insight into the changing face of announcing and talking about video games www.thegamebusiness.com/p/cyberpunk-...

“Physical events are great for setting expectations and managing them, because you can get a feeling for what [people] are thinking” www.thegamebusiness.com/p/cyberpunk-...

"The only way to get to that [broader] market is to make investments into making it simple" - Xbox on simplifying PC gaming handhelds www.thegamebusiness.com/p/xbox-attra...

“We have seen Xbox on PC, but this is an Xbox PC. I find this quite interesting, because it is going to need work. It is going to need time" www.thegamebusiness.com/p/xbox-attra...

Xbox says it is investing in making its upcoming handhelds ‘simple’ to attract a broader audience of consoler players www.thegamebusiness.com/p/xbox-attra...

“Ramesses VIII is the only Pharaoh never to be found. They don't know where he is buried. They're still looking in the Valley of the Kings, but my premise is… it's not there." - Dead Space vet Glen Schofield wants to make a dark action adventure www.thegamebusiness.com/p/call-of-du...

“Still, there is a possibility, of course, these games will totally fail" www.thegamebusiness.com/p/why-is-ncs...

“When we talked about making shooters, the first thing everybody said is: it's a saturated market” - NCSoft on Cinder City and Time Takers www.thegamebusiness.com/p/why-is-ncs...

“[Krafton] audited us twice with The Callisto Protocol. They couldn’t believe we had spent $100m” www.thegamebusiness.com/p/call-of-du...

Today we speak to Dead Space and Call of Duty creator Glen Schofield on the apparent death of AAA, the challenges facing his last game The Callisto Protocol, and what he might be working on next www.thegamebusiness.com/p/call-of-du...

We are at Gamescom! Expect bonus shows! Live recordings! Sausages! www.thegamebusiness.com/p/were-going...

Assassin's Creed Shadows beat out Monster Hunter Wilds, Split Fiction and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 to become Europe's best-selling new game of 2025 (so far) Meanwhile, digital continues to grow, representing 74% of all PC and console game sales www.thegamebusiness.com/p/assassins-...

Do you remember when EA's former CEO said he wanted Call of Duty to 'rot from the core'? The competition between the two games has always been fierce www.thegamebusiness.com/p/will-battl...

“We were in a great partnership with E3 through the years, and it was never a competition. It was more… announce your game at E3 and play it at Gamescom" www.thegamebusiness.com/p/gamescom-e...

The early signs for Battlefield 6 is hugely promising. But convincing players to leave Call of Duty, and then stay, will prove very challenging www.thegamebusiness.com/p/will-battl...

In our Gamescom preview, we welcome @lucyjames.games to the Show, and interview the Gamescom organiser who share the pros and cons of losing E3. Plus, we look at consumer insights from Ampere, chat Battlefield & PlayStation, and more! Listen or read below www.thegamebusiness.com/p/gamescom-e...

Wizards of the Coast is building an internal team of artists and world builders that the various studios building D&D games etcetera can use www.thegamebusiness.com/p/wizards-of...

“Baldur’s Gate is an incredible game. And of course, we're going to do a successor. This is not the successor to that game" www.thegamebusiness.com/p/wizards-of...