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It is our understanding that Sony and Microsoft charge lower per-unit royalties for games that sell many copies.18 This interesting form of nonlinear pricing strengthens game developers’ incentives to focus on a few good games rather than many mediocre games.

David S. Evans • Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries

He’s earned $62,400 writing more than 400 character backstories for an online version of the video game Grand Theft Auto, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.

Megan Sauer • 19-year-old who makes $10,000 a month from his video game side hustle: 'I never knew that writing could make me' so much money

Tweets From Jason Shen · @JasonShen • Tweet

This trend has a long way to go, though. Making video games is colossally hard and expensive; you need to be a crazy genius indie game developer with ultra-high risk tolerance, or else a mega-corporation like Unity or Steam or Valve, to do it. Video games haven’t yet had their “creator revolution”.

Nabeel Qureshi • Nabeel S. Qureshi

Today, modding is mainstream in gaming on PCs, where the platforms tend to be more open than they are on consoles and mobile phones. The popular PC game store Steam has hundreds of millions of pieces of user-generated game mods and components. It’s not uncommon for hit games to begin as mods of other games, including League of Legends (an adaptatio

Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

By any measure, conventional or otherwise, the volume of microtransactions shows that the significance gamers attach to their virtual items and achievements can be a real source of economic value.

L'Atelier • The Virtual Economy

These features addressed the industrial design group’s worries about VR-induced alienation—they allowed other people in a room to interact and collaborate with a person wearing a headset in a way not possible with other VR gear. For years, the existence of such a display, internally code-named T429, was known only to a small circle of people even w... See more

The Information • The Inside Story of Why Apple Bet Big on a Mixed-Reality Headset

The Digital Future of Tabletop Games

Andrew Chen a16z.com