News Sep 8th, 2025

Bethesda vet says subscription services are hurting devs

Former marketing and comms boss Pete Hines says the current ecosystem needs to support studios more

• business models
• subscription services
• platforms

News Jan 18th, 2024

Larian boss says company won't bring games to subscription services

"Whatever the future of games looks like, content will always be king"

• business models
• subscription services
• baldur's gate 3

News Jun 14th, 2018

Hitman 2 dropping episodic business model means more live content

"We can offer much more varied live content, simply because we have all the locations in Hitman 2 available"

• business models
• hitman 2

News Jun 8th, 2018

IO ditches episodic model for Hitman 2

Set to launch this November

• hitman
• business models
• hitman 2
• episodic

News May 29th, 2018

ESA once again defends loot boxes in video games

President Michael Gallagher insists the business model is not gambling

• loot boxes
• business models

News Mar 8th, 2018

One week after release H1Z1 is going free-to-play

Developer Daybreak attempts to broaden appeal as firm doubles down on battle royale esports

• h1z1
• battle royale
• business models
• free-to-play

Feature Mar 6th, 2018

From premium to free-to-play and back again: Why Trion Worlds keeps making changes to Rift's business model

CEO Scott Hartsman tells us about the free-to-play title's brand new premium service, Rift Prime

• Premium
• Rift
• business models
• free-to-play
• rift prime
• MMOs

News Oct 11th, 2017

OpenCritic and TotalBiscuit respond to loot box controversy

Review aggregator adds business model info, while YouTuber calls for ESRB to get involved

• loot boxes
• business models