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Finance
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Going backwards buying physical vs. digital media + Switch 2 sells 10+ million units so far
Over the last year I've noticed a change in my buying habits when it comes to media. It started with my son buying Jaws (see: Our Son Bought a New In Box Jaws Stern Premium – The First 40 Days of Ownership – What’s the…
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Pinball all you can play vs. coin drop per game + VIP monthly subscriptions from Waterland Arcade
In this article let's look at several different ways you can pay to play pinball in 2025. The most common way to play is per game or $x for 3 games or 5 games, giving a small discount for purchasing more games at a…
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Stern Pinball Operating with 31% Corporate to 69% Production Staff Ratio?
Sometimes I come across news stories and don't know how or if they fit here. It's obvious when Stern Pinball expanded their manufacturing in 2023 that new jobs would be added, but something I didn't know is their…
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OPINION: Tax time is the worst time to raise prices and, yep, Microsoft isn't reading the room
Yeah, this is going to be a screed on game prices. Going to join the chorus of gamer boos on pricing. It's a topic on PGM we've covered before ( OPINION: New games prices need to come down across the board in 2025 ),…
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In 2025 is not having enough consoles produced to meet need on purpose or accidental?
Somebody needs to seriously ponder the headline question. Remember the Sony PS5 launch? The real winners at launch weren't gamers like you and I, credit -- discredit, really -- the scalpers that gobbled up the consoles…
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Elwin's Team Speaking on June 2025 panel + Next Level Pinball admission increase + Games Not Moving + Humpday Wednesday 4/2/25
Every week on Wednesdays, besides celebrating getting over the hump of the week -- getting closer to the weekend -- we look around at what's happening in pinball and report back here. Elwin's primary team will be at NW…
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Beast Games More About Bribery than Playing Games and Wasn't Profitable says MrBeast
Mea culpa: I don't follow MrBeast. The most attention I've given whatever promotion, contest or YouTube challenge he's running are intrusive ads that appear on a mobile game I'm currently playing. Most of these ads are…
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Elon Musk is good at (paying others to boost) his gameplay
Why this headline seems obvious for someone as insanely rich as Elon Musk it's a bit puzzling applied to someone that does play a lot of videogames. The obvious one word question is: Why? This is where we get into a lot…
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Game Fade = How Long Does it Take You to Lose Interest Playing a Game?
Game Fade. Maybe not a common term to apply to how long it takes for interest in playing a game to wane. When Googling that term, nothing relevant comes back. A better search query is: "how long to lose interest in a…
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OPINION: New games prices need to come down across the board in 2025
Here's a suggestion for 2025 to game companies: bring the prices down. This isn't about cheap consumer playing less, it's about supply and demand. A recent article here that expands on not even the complete number of…
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OMG, Did Sony really spend $400 Million Developing Concord?
We don't report on heresy and rumors very often here at PGM, but the following Forbes article on Concord's ridiculously expensive AAA game development is disturbing. "A new report from Sacred Symbols’ Colin Moriarty,…
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The Next Time You Drive Past a Casino, Watch This ... and Stop or Keep Driving?
An alternate title for this article might be: How To Save For a Stern Pinball premium or How Not To Save for a Stern Pinball premium. But which one is it? Has VegasMatt's son figured out how to profitably trigger a…
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After Dungeon Golf Underperformed, Developer Switched Strategy to More Releases, Quicker Publishing
Here's another place, at least conceptually, the music business and game development are intersecting. Something we've been talking about here and there about here at PGM is reducing the development time, shortening the…
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How To Play Games to Increase Pattern Recognition
Sometimes articles that seem to have nothing to do with a topic we focus on here at PGM -- GAMES -- bring some kind of tie-in. Billionaires and successful CEOs have extraordinary pattern recognition. Want to improve…
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OPINION: Did Gamestop Make The Right Decision Shutting Down Game Informer?
Inching closer to my 60s (relax father time!) I have a few years still, but being able to separate the wheat from the chaff is getting easier. Look at the gaming news this past week centering around Gamestop shutting…
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Game Publishers, Quickest Way to Kill Your Game Sales is Overpricing
We see it all the time, sadly. Games that release with overinflated prices. It's painfully obvious publishers price the games from dreamland instead of reality. They set the price based on what they want it to make to…
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Hey PC Gamer, it's Disappointing and Disturbing, not a "Bloodbath" when 220 people lose their jobs
It's too often these days that hyperbole with titles and headlines is taken too far. With all the serious stuff going on in the world, journalists, writers, we need to pick our words more carefully, more sensitively.…
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ZPF a new SEGA Genesis Game fully funded on Kickstarter in first 19 minutes
If you were wondering if new games for retroconsoles like SEGA Genesis were in demand, the answer is a resounding yes, as evidenced by this Kickstarter for ZPF (…
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Clicking a Banana over and over again, is this really a game?
Do you try and keep an open mind to different genres of games? Or are you set on what you like and won't budge on things that seem way outside the norm? Like this game that's rising in the Steam DB charts about, yes,…
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To date, 16,000+ Game Job Layoffs from 2023-2024 and Counting ...
Ouch on the headline, the reality. We at PGM do not want to see anybody in the gaming sector lose their job. On that disappointing front, 2023 was brutal and 2024 is not off to a promising start. Our own estimated total…
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Due to "Lack of Resources" Warner Bros. Delisting Adult Swim Steam Games Instead of Transferring Ownership to Developers
Remember a few months back, Antstream losing the Warner Bros. licensing for Midway and other classic arcade games ( Breaking: Antstream Arcade Losing Warner Bros. / Midway License )? According to Antstream, they are…
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Hasbro Denies Sale of Dungeons & Dragons to Tencent, Sort of
Yes, the headline is somewhat old news, but follow the deeper story that lies herein. Too often the IPs, the franchises, the characters, the stories, are gobbled up by Jaws-sized corporate fish. Hence, the story of…
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Elton John Selling (one of) His Personal Elton John JJP Pinball Machines in Auction to Benefit Charity
It's not often someone sells a pinball machine in their home, themed about that person, while it is currently the newest pinball machine for that manufacturer. In fact, this might be the first time it's ever happened(?)…
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Could Fortnite Shopping Mall and Arcade with Disney IP be Under Construction? Disney Pays $1.5 Billion For Equity Stake in Epic Games
Disney has its eye on Epic's Fortnite. Or rather getting their IP inside Fortnite, with billion+ dollar equity investment in Epic. The House of Mouse wants into Fortnite, in a billion ways. In addition to being a…
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Videogame Physical Store in Florida Uses X / Twitter to Grow Business
For the last year most of us have seen considerable negativity surrounding Elon Musk purchasing Twitter / X for a ridiculous valuation. We're talking billions more than it was worth. We haven't shared any of those…
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February 2 Apple Vision Pro - The Day Spacial Computing Breaks VR Gamer Wallets
Tomorrow is the day Apple makes their virtual reality dreams come true. Or so they hope. Have dabbled with VR here and there, and usually fascinated by the tech and gaming, but mostly it just makes me physically…
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Twitch Layoffs - Paying Too Much For Talent and, Apparently, 50% of Everything Earned isn't Profitable
As dismaying as it is talking about more workers being laid off in the gaming space -- there was too much of that in 2023 -- here we are at the start of 2024 and it's happening with game streaming (Twitch) and game chat…
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Jirard The Completionist Character Removed from Sea of Stars game over Charity Controversy
Please note the smiling, bearded character above, based on a real gamer, because he's now been completely removed from the game, Sea of Stars. Patched completely out of existence. Why? You haven't heard? Am not aware of…
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Kickstarter for Re-Release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1985 RPG Meets Goal 4 Hours After Release
This TMNT role playing game might be my first ever Kickstarter ( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/palladiumbooks/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-and-other-strangeness?ref=discovery&term=tmnt ) Consider myself an RPG…
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Breaking: Antstream Arcade Losing Warner Bros. / Midway License
Our PGM group has followed Anstream Arcade with varying levels of interest. We've seen it go from free, to paid subscription model and earlier this year perhaps the biggest move: landing on Xbox. But today 11/10/2023 at…
