Opinion
Let's fake a deal | This Week in Business
Console user agreements represent a poor excuse for consent
This Week in Business (Page 2)
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Microsoft has control issues | This Week in Business
The effort to squash unlicensed controllers hurts plenty of paying customers, and might not even achieve its goals
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Why is Trust and Safety so hard? | This Week in Business
From Andreessen Horowitz's Techno-Optimist Manifesto to Discord's efforts to reform toxic users, we look at the causes of – and ineffective solutions to – a long-running problem
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Activision Blizzard goes into the black box | This Week in Business
The Call of Duty publisher has been good at detailing its business, but that won't happen under Microsoft
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Riccitiello's exit a rare bit of accountability | This Week in Business
Let's compare the consequences of Unity's Runtime Fee debacle to those of historical game executive bellyflops
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Taking one for the team you've been kicked out of | Last Week in Business
As ex-BioWare devs file suit for severance, EA reportedly tells them Dragon Age: Dreadwolf hangs in the balance
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An allergy to transparency | This Week in Business
How the IARC works, what makes Naughty Dog's layoffs different, and the industry's ongoing effort to control everything anyone knows about it
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Engines of Woe | This Week in Business
Who pays the price for Epic and Unity's recent revelations about the need for a sustainable business?
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Is chasing artificial intelligence genuinely senseless? | This Week in Business
How can Roblox take a cut of sales that aren't happening if AI undermines the creator economy?
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Unity's self-combustion engine | This Week in Business
We dive into the Runtime Fee and why it makes perfect sense for Unity management and no sense at all for anyone else
News
The non-endemics trying to break into games | This Week In Business
Following the recent warning from former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden, we take a look at the biggest non-games companies trying to drop the 'non-'
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Starfield review controversy traces game journalism's orbital decay | This Week in Business
More concerning than Bethesda's decision to withhold early review codes from certain outlets is how heavily some sites are relying on the game to drive their business
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Gamescom, Activision Blizzard, and Microsoft's history of acquisitions | This Week in Business
Our weekly round-up column does a lap of the biggest news in the industry to see what we can take away
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Blockchain gaming forgotten, but not yet gone | This Week in Business
There's a lot less buzz around blockchain gaming these days, but Zynga's new Web3 title reminds us it's not quite dead yet
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A better way to grow? | This Week in Business
Whether live service companies plan to grow revenues by getting more users or increasing spending per user, they often wind up in the same place
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Right to repair | This Week in Business
Problems of ethical sourcing for minerals are aggravated by business decisions and consumption patterns that produce mountains of e-waste
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ESRB wants to make it easier to harvest kids' personal data | This Week in Business
Ratings board teams up with SuperAwesome and Yoti to get approval for a lower-friction way for parents to approve collection of children's info
Opinion
Microsoft-Activision's race for the finish line | This Week in Business
We attempt to answer the burning questions that remain as the biggest deal in the industry's history seemingly nears completion in the US
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Now you're playing with privilege | This Week in Business
Nintendo's annual report and gender pay gap show a last-gen mindset to equality in the workplace
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Here come clown feet | This Week in Business
Unity's AI-asset-creator-that-wasn't leads a week of bush league moves from big companies in gaming
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Games will need a radical rethink to work in AR | This Week in Business
Having games that interact with real-world environments is a significant technical hurdle, but perhaps a bigger design challenge
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Activision Blizzard says collective bargaining is a human right | This Week in Business
It just doesn't want any of the humans it employs to actually exercise that right
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GameStop is doomed, water is wet, and other observations | This Week in Business
Retailer's executive teams have understood the threat of digital distribution for decades and done their best to adapt; Ryan Cohen's chances of success are no better
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The law is whatever Nintendo says it is | This Week in Business
Why is the Switch maker keeping its emulation clampdown out of the courts? We speak to the lawyer who repped Bleem against PlayStation for insight
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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