topics recession 
The Bottom Feeder
MARCH 5, 2024
The video game industry is seeing a big wave of layoffs and game company closures, and it may be that we have begun the long, slow, agonizing bleed of a recession. Such pain makes it very tempting to either ignore the topic or retreat into soft, easy homilies. I’ve been talking about this topic since I had hair.
The Bottom Feeder
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Every once in a while, I come up with a clump of topics too small for their own posts. The Layoffs The video game industry seems to be entering a really harsh recession period of the Business Cycle. Posting this chart every year only gets more and more fun! Geneforge 2 - Infestation Demo Available! Plus, it’s only five bucks.
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Game Industry News
JANUARY 6, 2022
Rillak calls for a recess during which Book converses with Tarka who reveals that he wants the DMA’s energy source in order to hop universes to rejoin a friend from his Emerald Chain lab. Book takes him up on the suggestion, and after the recess concludes, he pleads with them as the last survivor of Kwejian to destroy the DMA.
Deconstructor of Fun
JULY 11, 2023
Don't paint with too broad of a brush for this important topic.” - Anonymous Developer from our survey Three-quarters of people who participated in the survey have been in the games industry for over five years while nearly half of the participants in the survey have more than a decade in the games industry.
Deconstructor of Fun
APRIL 12, 2023
When discussing the decline of the business, Ilkka mentions three topics: Firstly, it’s the end of the lockdown-induced hyper-growth. Secondly, he mentions macroeconomic factors, such as the recession, inflation, and energy prices, which all limit the disposable income of a consumer.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 10, 2021
Unrelated to the pandemic, Apple proposed a change to IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers), which was also a hot topic across mobile gaming. Thankfully, your faithful crew at DoF are here to try and help you make sense of it, well, at least the very specific part of it related to puzzle games.
Deconstructor of Fun
APRIL 25, 2023
Two behemoths of the business realized they needed to get ready for the inevitable impact of both the IDFA deprecation and the global recession. One such example in the gaming industry was the merger between Unity and ironSource. They even had to fend off AppLovin to complete the deal !
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