Gamified

PlayStation ends disc production in favor of digital-only in January 2028. GTA 6 is rumored to ship with a TikTok-style social network built into the game. The Steam AI disclosure study showing AI-labeled games get 53% fewer reviews, the ESA report claiming the average gamer is a 37-year-old white man, and Mecha Chameleon, the $6 hide-and-seek game outselling Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam. The Gamified...

CHAPTERS: 2:30 - GoW: Laufey Revisited | Sentiment Score 20:41 - Over/Under $2B GTA VI Sales After 72hrs 43:56 - Summer Games Fest 95% Sequels | Red / Green Flag 57:50 - Console vs Cloud | Bullish or Bullsh1t 1:10:47 - Unreal Blueprints Deprecation | Buy or Sell 1:20:49 - Immutable = AppLovin Games | What are the Odds Watch instead of listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERGSPAD9XYw...

Sharma took over from Spencer last month and is already torching every major decision Xbox made. Employees are surprised. Retailers are confused. Layoffs incoming. Future Halo on PlayStation? Nobody knows. Single-player cinematic games are the new prestige format. The shift already happened — prestige migrated from multiplayer/live-service to authored, story-driven experiences, just like it migrat...

Have Steam wishlists become a vanity metric that no longer measures what people think it measures? The market just split on AI, and gaming is the clearest example. Nintendo has no AI features and no AI roadmap - and investors rewarded them for it. Roblox is doing the exact opposite: going all-in, building its own generative foundation models and baking agentic tools into the core of how games get...

THIS WEEK ON GAMIFIED: Forza Horizon 6 leaked before launch - then broke every franchise record. 172K concurrent on early access alone. 302K by end of week. Nearly 4x FH5's all-time peak. Sony held a staff town hall: single-player first-party games are PS5 exclusive going forward. No more Steam ports. A direct reversal of a six-year trend. Nintendo stock jumped 6.8% in three days. The reason?...

Watch instead of listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02n2n7h5PVI We score the health of the gaming industry 1 to 10. Gaming VC dropped 95% from its 2021 peak. 10,000+ jobs cut in 2024. Contraction or correction? Sony paid $3.6 billion for Bungie in 2022. Both Marathon and Destiny 2 are at 10K players on Steam. The panel votes buy or sell. Double Fine unionizes with 42 employees whil...

1. Ryan Cohen's GameStop makes an unsolicited $55.5B bid for eBay. Is this a legitimate M&A play or a $9.4B cash pile under pressure? The panel assigns odds from 2% to 50%+. 2. Gaming VC hit $627M in H1 2025 — down from $12.5B at the 2021 peak. The panel argues the bullish case and identifies which categories can still generate returns 3. Microsoft is reportedly exploring a free, ad-supported...

If you were running a studio, would you automate over or under 30% of it with AI? After comments suggesting many studios are already using AI tools but are afraid to admit it publicly, the conversation turns into a fight over what AI should actually replace, whether studios are quietly cutting humans out faster than they admit, and what happens when the industry starts trading headcount for toolin...

This week on Gamified, the panel breaks down Stop Killing Games and whether it’s a real consumer protection issue or a bad precedent for the industry, Roblox’s new age-based safety changes and what they mean for the company’s future, and the State of Decay 3 reveal controversy after the game was announced long before it was actually ready to show. 2:29 - Stop Killing Games | What’s the Word? 36:18...

The strange rollout of Borderlands Mobile, reports that Disney and Epic want to launch their gaming universe with an extraction shooter, the allegations surrounding Gunzilla Games + Ashes of Creation, and why Roblox games are getting movie deals. 2:51 - Steam’s AI Leak | What’s the Word? 19:26 - Borderlands Surprise Launch | Red or Green Flag? 30:22 - Disney Extraction Shooter | Sentiment Score 58...

The panel debates Take-Two (GTA6) cutting its AI team, whether game adaptations should be made for core fans or mainstream audiences, if PC is really about to overtake console, and if AAA is still the safer bet than indies. We also get into , AI’s role in preserving game history, and whether a curated indie subscription service can actually work. 2:08 - Fan Service in Game Adaptations | Bullish or...

Is Marathon already dead? Sony just raised PS5 prices for the second time in a year. And the CEO of an $11 billion company used ChatGPT to try dodging a $250M payout. Plus Chris Heatherly serves up a rumor about Disney. 2:55 Is Marathon Already Cooked? 19:20 PS5's are 30% More Expensive 36:48 Metacritic's Top 10 Publishers 48:08 Disney is Working on "Playable TV" 1:01:29 How Much...

Episode 153: The panel goes to war over Nintendo vs Marvel, dunks on Epic's disaster, dissects the $80B metaverse failure, and debates whether Crimson Desert's AI art scandal even matters. 4:00 Big Deal?: Crimson Desert AI Art Scandal 19:55 Buy or Sell: Cyberpunk TCG Kickstarter ($13M Raised) 35:49 Autopsy: What Killed the Metaverse? ($80B Lost) 46:45 Quickfire: GameStop Declares Xbox 360...

Topics on today's show - 143 million Pokemon Go players unknowingly built a 30 BILLION image AI dataset. Microsoft announced Gaming Copilot for Xbox - an AI that can play the game for you. NVIDIA showed DLSS 5 and the internet lost its mind (in a bda way). Slay the Spire 2 sold 3 million copies at $25 - did they leave millions on the table? GDC rebranded as a "Festival" and nobody ca...

Game Modes + Topics for this episode: 0:37 Netflix Valued Warner Bros Games at Zero 13:55 Marathon's Massive Sentiment Reversal 26:44 NY AG Sues Valve Over CS2 Loot Boxes 43:33 Where Does Gaming UGC Go From Here? 59:30 Pokemon Gen 10 Revealed 1:22:09 Should Celebrities Be Making Games? Red Flag or Green Flag — Paramount just acquired Warner Bros Discovery, including Mortal Kombat, Batman Arkha...

Gamified brings 6 game industry workers from founders to business developers to discuss what's going on each week in 60-second bursts. Every topic has a 'game mode' that makes the topics more entertaining and the takes a little hotter. Game Modes + Topics for this episode: 1. What's the Word -- Sony quietly shut down Bluepoint Games, the studio behind some of the most beloved remak...

Gamified brings 6 game industry workers from founders to business developers to discuss whats going on each week in 60-second bursts. Every topic has a 'game mode' - that make the topics more entertaining and the takes a little hotter. Game Modes + Topics for this episode: 1. What's the Word — Blizzard surprise-dropped a brand new class for a 25-year-old game, Diablo 2 Resurrected 2. S...

What’s the Word on Highguard trailer revealed at The Game Awards? Off the Grid launches ranked mode 1 year after launch - is it too little too late? Sentiment score for Steam’s new discovery system Which side is winning in 5 years - indie or AAA? 2025 was the year of the ______? MVP of the Year Today’s Panelists: - Dub @uhhdub - Kohji @ParallelTCGpod - Chris @chrisheatherly - Jerry @TGIFresco - Si...

Doodles mint stalls BEST AND WORST OF 2025 One thing to be excited about in 2026 Today’s Panelists: - Dub @uhhdub - Hantao @Hantao - Jonah @JonahBlake - Slayer @SlayerXgg - Charlie @0xChuckstock - Gorilla @CryptoGorilla - Oliver @OliverMaroney

What’s the word for Netflix trying to acquire Warner Bros? Keep or kill - should Steam drop the “made with AI” label? Bullish or bullshit on Fableborne “buying back” token allocation from NFT holders and airdropping USDC? Sentiment Score on Trump game launching on Open Loot What’s the word for Cambria generating over 1m in just a couple of days? Today’s Panelists: - Dub @uhhdub - Jerry @TGIFresco...

Is Gaming SO back? ZACH XBT Is Decentralized social media dead? Today’s Panelists: - Jordan @JordanEureka_ - Matthew @BuxtonMatthew - Iceyyy @iceyyy_gaming - Dub @uhhdub - Hantao @Hantao - Jonah @JonahBlake - Slayer @SlayerXgg - Charlie @0xChuckstock - Tony @Tvalc

Bullish or Bullshit on Kill Bill short film being released in Fortnite? What's the Word for a web3 game framing themselves as an olympic esport? What’s the Word for Roblox CEO saying prediction markets in Roblox is a “brilliant idea”? Who’s side are you on: Square Enix who are replacing most of their QA team with AI, or Balder’s Gate 3 team member who says replacing human QA with AI is stupid?...

WTF is a Kabuto King? Is $MSTR about to collapse? $JESSE launch Today’s Panelists: - Dub @uhhdub - Chris @chrisheatherly - Slayer @SlayerXgg - Jonah @JonahBlake - Payton @paytkaleiwahea - Matthew @BuxtonMatthew

What’s the word for “husbando” dating sim with almost 1B in revenue? 77 bit founder putting personal funds on the line for 77 days of life for his company to succeed or else it dies - what are the odds he succeeds? What’s the word for Philippines being the #1 revenue generating country for Legend of YMIR over the last 30 days? Games with anticheat as well as non-steam games cant be played on the s...

Today's Panelists: - Matthew @BuxtonMatthew - Slayer @SlayerXgg - Jerry @TGIFresco - Dub @uhhdub - Jonah @JonahBlake - Tony @tvalc - Chris @chrisheatherly - Kate @kateirwin - Jordan @JordanEureka_