This Week in Business
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Loot box disclosure fines are a joke | This Week in Business
Diablo Immortal and Hunt: Showdown fines for negligent ratings submissions undermine industry's insistence it takes loot box concerns seriously
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Gimme some truth | This Week in Business
Let's dig through annual reports to see what Activision Blizzard, EA, and Take-Two say when fewer people are listening
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Unity's incredible shrinking growth story | This Week in Business
The engine maker has switched from hiring aggressively in the name of growth to firing aggressively for the same reason
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Microsoft and Activision Blizzard won't take no for an answer | This Week in Business
The pair of 800-pound gorillas reacted differently to antitrust regulators until one of them actually stood in the way
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Are developers allowed to copy themselves? | This Week in Business
Nexon's copyright infringement lawsuit against Dark and Darker takes exception to Ironmace's rehashed fantasy tropes and Unreal Engine Marketplace assets
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How does Zynga hunt for whales? | This Week in Business
VP of player success details how the company uses gambling industry tactics to maximize the money it gets from its biggest spenders
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Has Name of Responsibility lastly peaked? | This Week in Enterprise
What the obnoxious present of online journalism suggests for the generative AI future
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The vibes are bad | This Week in Business
The demise of E3 continues a string of setbacks around the industry, but there are reasons for optimism
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GDC 2023's AI buzz has a familiar feel | This Week in Business
The pandemic's impact remains apparent, but this year's show is back to normal in a number of ways
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The industry's disingenuous defense of loot boxes | This Week in Business
Trade group testimony before Australian legislators more interested in protecting status quo than protecting players
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How to get away with being an abusive employer | This Week in Business
A helpful guide for staying out of the headlines and being lowdown on the down low
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Will we see mid-generation console refreshes again? | This Week in Business
At this point in the last console cycle, Microsoft and Sony were getting ready to announce PS4 Pro and Xbox One X; we consider why they would (and wouldn't) do it again now
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Rovio gives fans the bird | This Week in Business
Some fans preferred the pay-once remake of Angry Birds to the more lucrative free-to-play versions, so Rovio got rid of it
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Blizzard president sends a message | This Week in Business
Mike Ybarra's comments in an all-hands meeting upset some employees, but to what end?
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What's going on with EA on mobile? | This Week In Business
Following the surprise shutdown of Apex Mobile and the scrapping of Battlefield, the publisher's earnings call gives more insight to its plans on smart devices
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Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | This Week in Business
We're kicking off our new reviews section with a look at the biggest game of last year
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AI and the problem of "doing more with less" | This Week in Business
A new wave of AI tools are being pitched as ways to improve productivity, but would that just mean fewer jobs for devs?
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Pitting developers against one another | This Week in Business
In the absence of Striking Distance explaining The Callisto Protocol's credits omissions, we find a window into the management mindset elsewhere
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New Year's Resolution 2023: Sell to people who want to buy | This Week in Business
Epic's FTC deal highlights the virtue of friction and serves as a damning indictment of "long-standing industry practices"
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2022 was a year of market corrections | This Year in Business
We look back on an eventful 2022 with 52 quotes and stats that helped define the year in games
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Ubisoft asks players to stop being toxic | This Week in Business
We participated in the publisher's corporate training-style Fair Play Program so you don't have to
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Has 2022 been a bad year for new games? | This Week in Business
We take a look at new releases in NPD charts to measure this year's performance against each year since 2016
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Top 5 Investor Relations Pages | This Week in Business
You asked for it. Here it is. Our definitive ranking of the best investor relations websites in the business.
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Gaming's gambling problem is out of hand | This Week in Business
People Make Games report on CS:GO underscores how difficult it will be for the industry to kick the habit
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