The Venture Deadpool (Ep. 21)
Mitch and Blake address the unpleasant topic of how and why venture-backed games companies fail. They look first at the nature of venture financing and the inherent differences between venture and pub...
30 Apr 20251h 6min
China (Ep. 20)
Mitch and Blake look at the current state of the vitally important Chinese gaming market, on the precipice of a bitter trade war resulting from the Trump tariffs. They review the history of the games ...
23 Apr 202556min
Valve (Ep. 19)
Mitch and Blake take an in-depth look at one of the most important companies in the global gaming business: Valve. They trace the company's origin as the developer of first-person shooter Half Life, t...
16 Apr 20251h 1min
The Mobile Gaming Duopoly (Ep. 18)
Mitch and Blake discuss the mobile duopoly in which Apple and Google exert extraordinary power by tying their app stores to hardware and software platforms. They warn that the inflexible and expensive...
9 Apr 202559min
Cycles & Survival (Ep. 17)
Mitch and Blake kick off Season 3 of the podcast with a high-level look at the current moment in the video game business, critiquing both the idea that the business is cyclical and we are in a downwar...
2 Apr 20251h 23min
Artificial Intelligence (Ep. 16)
In their final episode of Season 2, Mitch and Blake take on the complex and highly speculative topic of the impact of recent improvements in artificial intelligence on the games business. Your hosts a...
13 Mars 20241h 13min
Intellectual Property (Ep. 15)
Mitch and Blake look at the ins and outs of intellectual property licensing in games. After discussing the checkered history of the practice, they look at the creative and business reasons why license...
6 Mars 20241h 10min
Distribution (Ep. 14)
In perhaps their most important episode of the series, Mitch and Blake explain what they mean when they use the term "distribution" and why it is so important to their understanding of how the video g...
28 Feb 20241h 10min
