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Season 2 of the GameCraft podcast kicks off with Mitch and Blake introducing the new 8-episode season, followed by an analysis of the current health of the games business.
Mitch and Blake discuss the paradoxical state of the business, where a "golden age" of content is facing some increasing financial headwinds. They compare the games business to the post-pandemic video streaming businesses, which have all faced difficult belt-tightening after a growth phase that produced some of the best content ever.
They look at the implications of increasing consolidation in the business (i.e., Activision/Microsoft, Zynga/TakeTwo, etc.), the end of the ten year surfeit of cheap money (the "Zero Interest Rate Policy"), and, finally, the over-investment of private capital into studios to fund game creation.
Artificial Intelligence (Ep. 16)
Intellectual Property (Ep. 15)
Distribution (Ep. 14)
Going Global (Ep. 13)
Independent Intervention (Ep. 12)
A Changing of the Guard (Ep. 11)
Choose Your (ad)Venture (Ep. 10)
The New Gold Rush (Ep. 8)
The Failures and Futures of Virtual Reality (Ep. 7)
Console Castles (Ep. 6)
The Playground and the Stage (Ep. 5)
The Forever Games (Ep. 4)
The Calculus of Fun (Ep. 3)
The Fall and Rise of Publishing (Ep. 2)
Steal This Game (Ep. 1)
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