🚨 NEW EPISODE

Artificial Intelligence (S2E8)

As Season 2 comes to an end, Mitch Lasky & Blake Robbins take on the complex and highly speculative topic of AI + games!

Now available on all platforms!

🚨 NEW EPISODE

Intellectual Property (S2E7)

Mitch Lasky & Blake Robbins thoroughly examine the role of IP and video games.

A wide ranging conversation on the topic — IP arbitrages, EA Sports/FIFA, Epic/Disney, and Transmedia!

Now available on all platforms!

🚨 NEW EPISODE
Distribution (S2E6)

Throughout this series, Mitch Lasky & Blake Robbins have repeatedly used the term 'distribution.'

This episode is a deep dive into how we define distribution and why it is so important for the video game business.

Now available on all platforms

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨

Going Global (S2E5)

In this episode, Mitch Lasky & Blake Robbins discuss the globalization of gaming.

They cover the innovations that unlocked these markets while also diving into the unique characteristics of these global hubs.

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨

Independent Intervention (S2E4)

In this episode, Mitch Lasky & Blake Robbins attempt to define 'indie' in the video game context...something that proves more difficult than it might seem on the surface.

Now available on all platforms!

.Mitch Lasky on the flexibility and strength that Epic has earned by aggregating users at scale

🚨 A Changing of the Guard (S2E3)

Mitch Lasky & Blake Robbins expand on last season's discussion of platform-based publishing by introducing: the game-enabling software platforms.

We cover the rise of Epic, Unity, AppLovin, Discord, and Roblox

Now available on all platforms!

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Choose Your (ad)Venture
Season 2, Ep. 2

Mitch Lasky & Blake Robbins do a deep dive on the nuances of game financing, the current state of gaming VC, and exits!

Now available on all platforms!

In Gamecraft S2E1, Blake Robbins and I discuss content vs. distribution innovation and its impact on value creation. I'm a bit of broken record on this topic, as Blake reminds me ... 🙄

We are back with Season 2!

Last season was the history lesson; this season is all about the business in 2024.

'The State of Play: 2024' is now live — Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins analyze the current health of the games business.

Available on all of your favorite podcast platforms

We are back for a special episode with our friends at Acquired Podcast!

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The Playground and the Stage (Ep. 5)

- User Generated Content in Games
- The rise of sandbox games (The Sims, GTA, Runescape, Minecraft, etc.)
- Evolution of games as performance spaces
- Roblox & Discord as 'third places'

Now available on all platforms!

New episode of Gamecraft Podcast dropping tomorrow:

Mitch Lasky and I propose a framework for understanding user-generated content in games based on two metaphors — the playground & the stage — representing the two ways users 'create' content in games through play and performance

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The Forever Games (Ep. 4)

- The rise of games-as-services
- The modern idea of a 'Forever Game'
- Mitch outlines his five attributes of long-term engagement in games
- MMORPGs + session-based games

Now available on all platforms!