Matthew Ball's State of Video Gaming 2026 report: global video game content sales grew 5.3% YoY to $195.6B in 2025 while job losses fell 40% YoY to 9,200 people
Matthew Ball's State of Video Gaming 2026 report: global video game content sales grew 5.3% YoY to $195.6B in 2025 while job losses fell 40% YoY to 9,200 people
Private funding fell a further 55% last year, according to Epyllion's latest State of Video Gaming report
A close look at the state of video gaming in 2025, including why gaming soared from 2011 to 2021 and then stalled, China's global rise, and mobile gaming growth
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Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer says he does not “feel an imperative” from users to release a major Xbox upgrade, preferring instead the “hardware we have”
Microsoft Corp.'s video gaming chief Phil Spencer said he doesn't “feel an imperative” to come out with a major upgrade of its Xbox game console.
The US military is embracing video gaming culture to attract and retain talent, but faces internal challenges and fierce outside criticism for doing so
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post : Tweets: @launcherwp and @amyjnelsonphd Tweets: Launcher / @launcherwp : In Feb., U.S. Army major Jon-Marc Thibodeau wrote in a since-revised statement: “The ‘Nintend...
The US military is embracing video gaming culture to attract and retain talent, but faces internal challenges and fierce outside criticism for doing so
The military is embracing video gaming culture, but faces internal challenges and outside criticism for doing so — In May, the U.S. military created a new rivalry. Tweets: @amyjnelsonphd and @launch...
A look at Xsolla, a video game payments company founded in 2005 by Aleksandr Agapitov with nearly $100M in 2021 revenue from Epic, Valve, Roblox, and more
Scott Carpenter / Bloomberg : Tweets: @business Tweets: @business : Aleksandr Agapitov is little known inside video gaming circles, let alone the business world. Yet his company is one of the leading...
Experts say China's gaming regulations for young players will hurt esports development in the country and hand a big advantage to rivals in other countries
Primrose Riordan / Financial Times : Tweets: @primroseriordan , @iikkakorhonen , and @chinabeigebook Tweets: Primrose Riordan / @primroseriordan : China was making a play for global esports dominance...
A look at questions the gaming industry faces as it reflects on 2020's increased spending on games, Cyberpunk 2077 debacle, murky economics of esports, and more
If you're trying to forecast the next 12 months for the video gaming industry, an oft-repeated exercise this time of year … Tweets: @launcherwp , @teddyamen , and @launcherwp Tweets: Launcher / @launc...
NPD: consumer spending on video gaming in the US hit a record $10.86B between January and March, up 9% YoY, with sales from video game content up 11% to $9.58B
New numbers from NPD confirm what we've known for a while: the first quarter of 2020 was a very good one for gaming companies.