The Game Business Show

Star Fox developer Velan: How to survive as a North American game studio

This week, we speak to Velan Studios leaders Guha and Karthik Bala, who run the studio behind the new Star Fox remake on Nintendo Switch 2. The Balas, who had previously

How did PS5 boxed games sell in September? And the problem with industry consolidation

In today's bumper The Game Business Show, we're joined by leading analyst Joost van Dreunen as we discuss the perils and opportunities from a rapidly consolidating video

How Undead Labs saved itself and State of Decay from oblivion

In this edition, we welcome Philip Holt, the boss of State of Decay developer Undead Labs. The studio has just declared its independence from Xbox, but has had to lay off

Games media crisis deepens, Bloober hunts weird horror titles, and New York Games Week soft launches

In today's bumper edition of the Show, we discuss the layoffs in the games media, plus we have two interviews. The first is with the leaders of Bloober Team and Broken Mi

As a Battlefield studio, is Criterion Games really still Criterion?

We chat with four leaders from EA's Criterion studio about how it made Battlefield with three other international studios, and whether the studio is still the same one th

Tencent’s bid to create the next FromSoftware and Larian

In today's The Game Business Show, Chris speaks with Tencent’s Yong-yi Zhu at Gamescom. The two discuss Tencent's bid to find the next Larian or FromSoftware, the success

Is Xbox making the right decisions? Plus, how AI is (and isn’t) transforming game localization

In today's edition, Chris dives into the changes at Xbox and why the cuts - although brutal - are necessary and sensible. Plus, two leading localization experts chat abou

“We’ve been baptized in fire” – the new Rainbow Six boss on losing staff, Tencent, GTA and… Moana

We speak to the head of Rainbow Six: Siege Joshua Mills about the challenges that followed last year's major X update, the hack that took out the game over Christmas, lif

Five things we’ve learned about Japan’s games industry, plus how GTA 6 influenced Valor Mortis’ $40 price point

This week, we're joined by Japanese video game industry expert Dr Serkan Toto, and we talk about the state of the Japanese video game industry, the dominance of Nintendo,

Beyond Balatro and taking risks: Why Playstack doesn’t want a 100% hit rate

In this bonus edition of The Game Business Show, Chris talks to Balatro publisher PlayStack about how the hit poker game has transformed the company, why it's not looking

The shooter that Tencent abandoned: Wardogs hits 2m sales in one weekend

We speak to Joe Brammer, CEO of Bulkhead, which has just launched the smash hit 100-player first person tactical shooter Wardogs. Just nine months ago, the studio was un

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and GTA 6: The video game industry’s Barbenheimer moment

This week, Chris looks at the potential of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in the month GTA 6 launches, Ubisoft talks about its Player Council, Geoff launches a foun

“Some of the offers were actually offensive” – How Clutch found its publisher

We speak with Maverick Games bosses Harinder Sangha and Mike Brown about being dropped by Amazon, the "offensive" offers it received from other publishers, the state of t

GTA 6 reveal causes Xbox and PlayStation sales to jump by a third

In today's edition, Chris shares the latest data from the GTA 6 Netflix reveal, including its impact on PS5 and Xbox Series S and X. Transcription by ESO. Translation by

CD Projekt Red: If you want a cost-driven development, you cannot make The Witcher 4

We speak to CD Projekt Red joint CEO Michal Nowakowski about the switch to making multiple games, returning to The Witcher 3, why it released Cyberpunk 2077 too early, th

Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets: “I have two or three games left”

It’s our bumper Gamescom edition of The Game Business Show. In this edition, Patrice Désilets, the creator of Assassin’s Creed, speaks to us from Gamescom about the newl

Unity CEO: “The cost of building a game is coming down markedly”

In today’s bumper edition of The Game Business Show, we chat to Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg about his '100% optimistic' view on the future of the video game industry. He

The video games most at risk from PlayStation’s physical switch-off

In today's edition of The Game Business Show, Chris is joined by Piers Harding-Rolls. The two discuss the potential impact of $1,000 game consoles (should they happen). T

Arkane veterans Harvey Smith and Ben Horne reunite: “We’re back to the games we love”

The Game Business' Christopher Dring chats with legendary immersive sim game maker Harvey Smith (Dishonored/Deus Ex) and executive producer Ben Horne (NBA/Redfall) to dis

Is the Stop Killing Games campaign destined to fail?

In this week's The Game Business Show, Chris is joined by policy expert Dr Celia Pontin to discuss Stop Killing Games, the consumer movement that wants to stop online vid