Welcome to Game Souk, where we explore all aspects of the gaming world from tech, finance, culture, and beyond. Airs live every Thursday at 9am Eastern on X @daltonan. Topics covered in this episode:

• Direct to consumer breaks open: how Tim Sweeney's fight against the Apple and Google 30% toll is reshaping mobile gaming, and why the subscription newsletter model is the real engine behind compounding growth

• The numbers behind direct to consumer: roughly $17B in direct to consumer mobile gaming revenue in 2025, and where Apple's legal fight with Epic stands now

• GTA VI pre-orders go live at $79.99 standard and $99.99 Ultimate ahead of a November 19 release, plus a genuine panel debate over whether Rockstar sticks the landing or quietly disappoints after more than a decade of hype

• Is gaming becoming a luxury? GTA VI pricing, the $1,000 plus Steam Machine, and what rising console and component costs mean for who gets to play

• Fortnite's record comeback on the App Store: its largest download week ever, its first ever million download day, and a geographic surprise out of Saudi Arabia and Mexico 

• Memory is the new oil: the AI CapEx race, Micron's record quarter, SK Hynix's roughly $29B US listing set to rank among the five largest ever, and market concentration not seen since 1999

• Meta under pressure: why the market is questioning its AI spending, the $900M Cred investment and Kunal Shah taking over WhatsApp, and the new Arena prediction markets app paid in points rather than real money

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Produced by: Jacob Hollabaugh

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