The Game Business Show

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• How did PS5 boxed games sell in September? And the problem with industry consolidation

  October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

  In today's bumper The Game Business Show, we're joined by leading analyst Joost van Dreunen as we discuss the perils and opportunities from a rapidly consolidating video game industry. We also reveal how the GTA 6 and Zelda reveals boosted…

• How Undead Labs saved itself and State of Decay from oblivion

  October 6, 2026 · 42 min

  In this edition, we welcome Philip Holt, the boss of State of Decay developer Undead Labs. The studio has just declared its independence from Xbox, but has had to lay off a 'significant' number of staff as it prepares to release State of…

• Games media crisis deepens, Bloober hunts weird horror titles, and New York Games Week soft launches

  October 1, 2026 · 53 min

  In today's bumper edition of the Show, we discuss the layoffs in the games media, plus we have two interviews. The first is with the leaders of Bloober Team and Broken Mirror Games about finding weird horror titles akin to Backrooms in the…

• As a Battlefield studio, is Criterion Games really still Criterion?

  September 30, 2026 · 39 min

  We chat with four leaders from EA's Criterion studio about how it made Battlefield with three other international studios, and whether the studio is still the same one that made those Need for Speed and Burnout games. This is a public…

• Tencent’s bid to create the next FromSoftware and Larian

  September 29, 2026 · 25 min

  In today's The Game Business Show, Chris speaks with Tencent’s Yong-yi Zhu at Gamescom. The two discuss Tencent's bid to find the next Larian or FromSoftware, the success of Chinese-made games in the West, the company's ambitions for…

• Is Xbox making the right decisions? Plus, how AI is (and isn’t) transforming game localization

  September 24, 2026 · 44 min

  In today's edition, Chris dives into the changes at Xbox and why the cuts - although brutal - are necessary and sensible. Plus, two leading localization experts chat about the challenges in releasing games in other markets, and the impact…

• “We’ve been baptized in fire” – the new Rainbow Six boss on losing staff, Tencent, GTA and… Moana

  September 22, 2026 · 36 min

  We speak to the head of Rainbow Six: Siege Joshua Mills about the challenges that followed last year's major X update, the hack that took out the game over Christmas, life under new Tencent ownership, how to handle GTA 6, younger vs older…

• Five things we’ve learned about Japan’s games industry, plus how GTA 6 influenced Valor Mortis’ $40 price point

  September 17, 2026 · 55 min

  This week, we're joined by Japanese video game industry expert Dr Serkan Toto, and we talk about the state of the Japanese video game industry, the dominance of Nintendo, impact of China, the rise of PC and lots more.We then welcome…