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Cecilia D'Anastasio

@cecianasta
139 posts
2026-03-08
What most fascinated me about Roblox's teen millionaires was their philosophy toward money. Many traded their childhoods for long nights making games. Fisch maker Nate Colley, 19, can now “just make money from money and work for fun.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2026-03-08 View on X
Bloomberg

Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education

New: Meet Roblox's teen millionaires. A couple hit games “set them up for life,” according to one 22-year-old dev who calls them “a great source of passive income.” Move over YouTube and Twitch — Roblox is minting the next class of rich, young gamers https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2026-03-08 View on X
Bloomberg

Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education

2026-03-07
New: Meet Roblox's teen millionaires. A couple hit games “set them up for life,” according to one 22-year-old dev who calls them “a great source of passive income.” Move over YouTube and Twitch — Roblox is minting the next class of rich, young gamers https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2026-03-07 View on X
Bloomberg

Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education

Roblox creators are raking in hundreds of thousands a month from simple games like ‘Fisch,’ even as major studios cut jobs and cancel blockbusters.

What most fascinated me about Roblox's teen millionaires was their philosophy toward money. Many traded their childhoods for long nights making games. Fisch maker Nate Colley, 19, can now “just make money from money and work for fun.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2026-03-07 View on X
Bloomberg

Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education

Roblox creators are raking in hundreds of thousands a month from simple games like ‘Fisch,’ even as major studios cut jobs and cancel blockbusters.

2026-03-01
Stake says influencers like Drake and Adin Ross don't win more than the average gambler. We ran the numbers, and guess what :) Here's our year-long data investigation into Stake and Kick, with @oliviasolon and @LeonYin: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2026-03-01 View on X
Bloomberg

Inside the world's largest crypto casino Stake, which claims ~4% of all BTC transactions, with popularity boosted by celebs like Drake and influencers on Kick

Drake just needed some juice.  In 82 minutes of online slots play, the Canadian rapper's starting balance of $3.5 million worth of Bitcoin had dwindled to $422,355.

Clips of Stake influencers' astronomical jackpots — like the $37m and $45m they won live on Kick last year — get scattered across social media by clippers, who receive $800 per million views Stake says it is a separate business from Kick https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2026-03-01 View on X
Bloomberg

Inside the world's largest crypto casino Stake, which claims ~4% of all BTC transactions, with popularity boosted by celebs like Drake and influencers on Kick

Drake just needed some juice.  In 82 minutes of online slots play, the Canadian rapper's starting balance of $3.5 million worth of Bitcoin had dwindled to $422,355.

Our year-long investigation into Stake's advertising empire uncovered influencers' higher win rates and the house money they gamble with. Those wins get clipped and scattered across the internet, showcasing an impossible fantasy It's also today's @business Big Take [image]
2026-03-01 View on X
Bloomberg

Inside the world's largest crypto casino Stake, which claims ~4% of all BTC transactions, with popularity boosted by celebs like Drake and influencers on Kick

Drake just needed some juice.  In 82 minutes of online slots play, the Canadian rapper's starting balance of $3.5 million worth of Bitcoin had dwindled to $422,355.

2026-01-07
Discord filed confidentially for an IPO, per scoop from my fantastic colleagues @CarolineHydeTV and @BTLipschultz: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2026-01-07 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Discord files confidentially for a US IPO, working with Goldman and JPMorgan; Discord was valued at ~$15B in 2021, and rejected a $12B Microsoft offer

Discord Inc. filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter …

2025-11-25
A strong and true report from the frontlines of tech accountability journalism by @CaseyNewton: “I'm noticing the degree to which platforms wish to be judged only by their stated intentions, and almost never on the outcomes of anyone who uses them.” https://www.platformer.news/ ...
2025-11-25 View on X
Platformer

A look at how tech executives use “delay, deny, and deflect” when pressed on user safety and what it means for journalism, as shame loses power over public life

I.  —  On Friday, the Hard Fork team published our interview with Roblox CEO David Baszucki.

2025-10-24
New: The market for Counter-Strike skins fell $1.75 billion overnight — that's 25%. Investors dumped money into the digital item market amid concerns about the S&P 500 and crypto. Then, last night, Valve pushed a market-breaking update to the game. Data via @pricempire [image]
2025-10-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Pricempire: after Valve updated the exchange rate of Counter-Strike digital items, the market fell by $1.75B, or 25%, on October 23; in 2024, a gun sold for $1M

The value of digital items in the popular video-game Counter—Strike has fallen 48% following an update by the title's developer Valve Corp.

Here's a fun chart I made in May when the CS skin market hit $4.3 billion. Shows why investors pumped so much $$ into it. It hit $6 billion before it tanked last night. [image]
2025-10-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Pricempire: after Valve updated the exchange rate of Counter-Strike digital items, the market fell by $1.75B, or 25%, on October 23; in 2024, a gun sold for $1M

The value of digital items in the popular video-game Counter—Strike has fallen 48% following an update by the title's developer Valve Corp.

2025-08-23
I reached out to 440 moderators for this. It's a uniquely hard demographic to report on - one critical to the infrastructure of culture. Many live in job deserts and are afraid to speak out. Thankfully a lot of them did over concerns the AI they're training will replace them
2025-08-23 View on X
Bloomberg

How AI is increasingly being used to replace human content moderators, who say that the tech is not yet capable of reliably identifying harmful content

Kevin decided on a career in content moderation after his YouTube recommendations took a bewildering swerve.

2025-07-13
New: Teens are selling Roblox games for 7 figures or more in a now-thriving secondary market. One earned $3 million for Blue Lock Rivals: a game he made in just months: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-07-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Studios like Do Big are buying Roblox games for $1M+ in a thriving secondary market; Naavik: seven of the 15 highest-earning games in June have been acquired

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg :

2025-07-12
New: Teens are selling Roblox games for 7 figures or more in a now-thriving secondary market. One earned $3 million for Blue Lock Rivals: a game he made in just months: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-07-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Studios like Do Big are buying Roblox games for $1M+ in a thriving secondary market; Naavik: seven of the 15 highest-earning games in June have been acquired

Game service spawns a busy after market for the most-popular titles … It sold a few months later for more than $3 million.

2025-06-05
New: The Switch 2 has launched! @business attended launch events from Tokyo to Manhattan and interviewed esteemed Nintendoheads like SNL's Bowen Yang and @ChickenDog64, who waited outside Nintendo NY since April to secure the first console. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-06-05 View on X
Financial Times

Nintendo launches the Switch 2 globally, with midnight store openings and long queues; analysts expect it to sell 15M to 20M units, in line with its FY guidance

Mario fans queue at midnight store openings after games company apologises for failing to meet pre-order demand

2025-06-01
New: Record-breaking Roblox game Grow A Garden has spurred a million-dollar-a-week illicit fruit economy. Kid entrepreneurs are selling rare fruit seeds and animals to each other on third-party marketplaces. Full story: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-06-01 View on X
Bloomberg

Grow a Garden, a hit game on Roblox, has spawned a market where in-game items are sold for real money on sites like eBay, potentially violating Roblox's ToS

and spawned a market for virtual crops and livestock that appears to violate company rules https://www.bloomberg.com/... Cecilia D'Anastasio / @cecianasta : New: Record-breaking Ro...

2025-05-31
New: Record-breaking Roblox game Grow A Garden has spurred a million-dollar-a-week illicit fruit economy. Kid entrepreneurs are selling rare fruit seeds and animals to each other on third-party marketplaces. Full story: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-05-31 View on X
Bloomberg

Grow a Garden, a hit game on Roblox, has spawned a market where in-game items are sold for real money on sites like eBay, potentially violating Roblox's ToS

At a recent peak on Saturday, May 24, some 8.7 million people were playing at once, roughly the population of Switzerland …

2025-05-12
ZZZ didn't meet HoYoverse's expectations, sources say. 2024 revenue fell 23%, per @nikopartnersinc. Now it's developing games in entirely new genres, with the 2030 goal of crafting an all-encompassing virtual world: “We have never been a game company.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-05-12 View on X
Bloomberg

A profile of Genshin Impact creator HoYoverse, which is exploring new game genres as its titles begin to cannibalize each other and its revenue declined in 2024

HoYoverse plots a future path to reach further than its anime roots  —  For decades, Chinese video games and American gamers just didn't mix. Bluesky: @jaysheen . X: @zhugeex , @ce...

New: Inside HoYoverse—the first Chinese game-maker to crack the West. HoYoverse made billions from anime babe RPGs, but the data shows its games cannibalized each other. My deep dive into how the company plans to stay on top (with some fun scoops): https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-05-12 View on X
Bloomberg

A profile of Genshin Impact creator HoYoverse, which is exploring new game genres as its titles begin to cannibalize each other and its revenue declined in 2024

HoYoverse plots a future path to reach further than its anime roots  —  For decades, Chinese video games and American gamers just didn't mix. Bluesky: @jaysheen . X: @zhugeex , @ce...

2025-05-01
News editors: This will be be a huge year for gaming news and you will want that traffic. You can't do better than Polygon's reporters. We're getting possibly the biggest console and game launches (Switch 2, GTA VI), Roblox gangbuster growth, regulatory scrutiny—big stories.
2025-05-01 View on X
Kotaku

Polygon staffers, including co-founder and EIC Chris Plante, say the video games website has laid them off; sources say Vox Media sold Polygon to Valnet

One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up  —  The video game website Polygon has been sold to Valnet and much of its staff has been laid off, Kotaku as learned.