Gaming Tech with Fexingo: Consoles, PC Gaming, and the Game Industry

Lucas and Luna tackle a trend reshaping the gaming industry: intellectual property is being bought and sold faster than ever. In 2025 and into early 2026, major publishers have spent over $12 billion acquiring old franchises, dormant characters, and movie tie-in rights. They dig into a specific case: the recent $2.1 billion deal for the 'Tom Clancy' brand — not the games, but the literary and film...

Lucas and Luna dive into the escalating competition for player attention among console, PC, and mobile platforms in 2026. With Sony and Microsoft betting on subscription bundles, Nintendo sticking to premium hardware, and cloud gaming quietly gaining ground, the episode breaks down how each strategy targets different player habits. Drawing on Newzoo's latest report, Lucas explains why mobile now c...

Lucas and Luna unpack how game engines like Unreal and Unity have become the most valuable infrastructure in the game industry — worth more than many game franchises themselves. They trace the shift from custom-built tech to licensing models, the economics of Epic's Unreal Engine royalty structure, and how Unity's run-time fee controversy reshaped developer trust in 2023. With specific numbers lik...

In the premiere episode of Gaming Tech with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna start with a staggering number: Nintendo has now sold over 143 million Switch consoles, surpassing the PlayStation 4's lifetime sales of 117 million. They unpack how Nintendo pulled this off with a seven-year-old mobile chip—the Tegra X1—while Sony and Microsoft chase raw power with $500-plus boxes. Lucas explains the 'blue ocean'...