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Joseph Kim and Arthur Trusov talk top game charts, game industry news, and games we're playing.

Joseph Kim and Arthur Trusov talk top game charts, game industry news, and games we're playing.

0:00 Intro - New Years Eve

2:52 Top Steam charts - Baldur’s Gate 3, Lethal Company, Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077 big jumps 

6:27 Top mobile charts - Ice Scream 8, 8 Ball Pool, Royal Match vs. Monopoly GO

9:40 8 Ball Pool Keeps Trucking from Gamemakers Newsletter, innovations and early history, opportunity in runner games

14:52 Sony Activision Riposte will involve mobile gaming from Reuters

20:27 from Owen Mahoney interview: “Nobody in the industry is happy” from Game File newsletter - game projects getting too big

32:11 Top 5 FPS mobile games for 2024: Polygon Arena, Rainbow Six Mobile, Warzone Mobile, Valorant Mobile, and Arena Breakout Season 2

40:30 China’s NPPA walks back some Chinese gaming restrictions on WeChat, approves over 100 game licenses in response to backlash

44:45 Bethesda’s Starfield reviews tank to mostly negative

50:55 Valve’s bestselling games of 2023

54:00 Nintendo’s best downloaded games on Switch for 2023: Suika + new Dragon Quest game

59:30 Ghost Runner is free on Epic Games

1:00:00 Layoffs in 2023

1:03:30 Thoughts on 2024

1:07:55 Games we’re playing: Diablo 4, Block Jam 3D, Ghostrunner

Joseph Kim (Oldie but Goodie) and Arthur Trusov (Young Blood) discuss top charts and gaming news.

0:00 Intro

2:22 Top Steam charts

5:05 Top mobile charts

7:45 China to curb gaming spend: Netease and Tencent plunge

10:13 China regulator to study concerns about the new gaming curbs

12:45 Take-Two Bet $12B Just as mobile games tumbled

19:33 Valorant Mobile Game

25:30 Insomniac Games major hacking leak

29:30 GTA hacker sentenced

30:45 More layoffs at Sony, may close studio

32:35 Steam Winter sale up to 60% off on games and other gaming deals

38:03 What’re we playing? Ready or Not, Wild Rift, Coop games

Game over podcast Episode #3.

Joseph Kim and Arthur Trusov talk top game charts, gaming news, and games we're playing.

Overview:

0:00 Intro

2:19 Top Steam charts

4:32 Top Mobile charts

6:10 Netflix future games strategy

10:30 Epic Games hits all time records with Fortnite

13:12 TikTok hits over $10B in mobile IAP revenue

15:45 Epic Games wins verdict against Google for monopolistic behavior

21:40 Max Payne voice actor passed away

22:50 First home game console turns 50 years old

24:00 Sony patents dynamically adjusting game difficulty

26:09 Tencent shuts down Team Kaiju studio

28:28 E3 games conference shutting down

33:36 Twitter allowed “Artistic Nudity”, backlash 

38:40 Games we’re playing: Block Jam 3D (mobile), Asgard’s Wrath 2 (Oculus), Grand Theft Auto Online (PC)

Joseph Kim and Arthur Trusov talk top games by market charts, gaming news, and games we're playing.

Agenda:

0:00 Intro

2:11 Top Steam charts

3:25 Top Mobile charts

6:53 “Unity, I’m Done” - Fundamentally Games CEO quits Unity

13:56 Frost Giant’s Stormgate RTS fully funds Kickstarter

21:22 Sega’s new Super Game with an over $800M budget

25:50 GTA 6 Launch trailer and announcement

33:10 Day Before extraction shooter Top 10 worst rated game on Steam

37:50 EA’s old multiplayer games getting shut down

41:25 The Game Awards

47:14 What’re we playing? New Call of Duty Warzone map, Black Clover M, Spider Man 2, Alan Wake 2, Lethal Company  

0:00 Intros - Joseph Kim and Arthur Trusov

4:22 Top Steam charts Nov 21 -28, 2023

6:34 Top WW mobile charts Nov 19 - 25, 2023

10:03 Video game company layoffs

16:43 Marvel Snap publisher Nuverse shuts down

20:00 GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition going to Netflix

24:25 Lethal Company solo dev hits #1 on Steam charts

30:50 Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 shifts from expansion pack to full game

35:00 Games spotlight: The Finals

39:20 Alan Wake 2

40:10 Lethal Company

43:30 Wild Rift

44:00 Netflix’s Into the Dead 2 


44:35 Century Games Frozen City

45:00 Warzone Mobile and BloodStrike

46:37 Conclusion

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