Gaming Decoded: A Games Business Podcast

The costliest mistakes in studio leadership don't arrive all at once. They build in the gaps between what teams say and what leaders actually hear...or what they ignore. In this episode of Gaming Decoded, recorded on location at GamesBeat Summit 2026, host Andrea Rene and Vivrato founder Adam Boyes sit down with Jen Maclean, co-founder and CEO of Dragon Snacks Games. Drawing on leadership role...

At GamesBeat Summit 2026, host Andrea Rene sat down with Amir Satvat, Founder of Always Supporting the Games Community job board, and Adam Boyes, CEO & Founder of Vivrato, to examine the current state of the games industry job market through community-driven data and firsthand experience. Amir shares insights from the ASGC community, including: Why 30% of laid-off developers have been out of w...

Most studio leaders don't realize they need help until it's already too late to act on it. In this episode of Gaming Decoded, Andrea Rene sits down with CEO and Founder of Syndicate of Play, veteran executive Mark Stanley. Drawing on 25-plus years across companies like Sega, PlayStation, GameStop, and Xbox, he explains why studios keep making the same avoidable mistakes at the worst possib...

Most games don’t fail because they’re bad. They fail because no one knows who they’re for. In this episode of Gaming Decoded, Andrea Rene sits down with Tracey McGarrigan, founder and CEO of Ansible Comms and Tech Advisors, a strategic marketing and communications consultancy working with games studios and executives around the world. They break down what actually drives success in game launches,...

The games industry has a structural problem that most studios refuse to name: development and publishing have been at war for decades, and players are paying the price. In this episode of Gaming Decoded, host Andrea Rene sits down with Jonathan Lander, CEO & Founder of Square Corners Consulting and a Vivrato Visionary with over two decades leading online games at CCP (EVE Online) and ZeniMax O...

What do you get when you interview over 350 games industry leaders and ask them the same question? 173 different answers. That's the problem Adam Boyes set out to solve. In the inaugural episode of Gaming Decoded, host Andrea Rene sits down with Adam Boyes, founder and CEO of Vivrato Consultancy, to talk about why the games business is struggling despite more players and more money in the mark...

What do you get when you interview over 350 games industry leaders and ask them the same question? 173 different answers. That's the problem Adam Boyes set out to solve. In the inaugural episode of Gaming Decoded , host Andrea Rene sits down with Adam Boyes, founder and CEO of Vivrato, to talk about why the games business is struggling despite more players and more money in the market than eve...

Welcome to Gaming Decoded: A Games Business Podcast from Vivrato Consultancy. Each week, we pull back the curtain on the strategies and stories that power the world’s most successful game makers and industry leaders. Hosted by Andrea Rene and powered by Vivrato, each episode features industry operators, creators, and leaders sharing actionable lessons, market intelligence, and practical advice for...