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Amazon’s Fallout is another success story for transmedia, but the strategy needs to evolve

Blog post by Rhys Elliott

26 Apr 2024

Everyone was talking about the Super Mario Bros. Movie (The Mario movie ) and HBO’s The Last of Us this time last year, and now Fallout has entered the mainstream thanks to the Amazon show. But, for...

Collector’s editions have become a backdoor for AAA publishers to charge for early access

Blog post by Rhys Elliott

17 Apr 2024

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Ubisoft

Since publishers first increased AAA game prices from $60 to $70 in 2020, many people have asked MIDiA if publishers will raise that price further. Our answer: they already have – sort of, anyway. Via...

Single-player game budgets and scopes have spiralled out of control – it’s time to shrink the scope

Blog post by Rhys Elliott

11 Apr 2024

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Nintendo

AAA game development budgets and timelines for single-player games are getting out of hand. This was not always the case, but there has been an insidious creep over the past 20 years. The core development...

Steam is the unlikely winner of the modern console wars – for now

Blog post by Rhys Elliott

4 Apr 2024

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Sony

Thanks to console manufacturers and third-party publishers moving content to Steam, Valve now boasts one of the most diverse AAA offerings on the market, benefitting from new strategies adopted by Xbox...