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🔥🔥🔥 GameOver Weekly
1. AI kills PM, 2. Dev Funds are 💩, 3. Niantic's Exit | Tale of 2 Cities: Apex Legends vs. PUBG
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Joseph Kim
The Biggest Fire + The Global Shift in Game Dev
JK does a rant on The Biggest Fire concept and Ben Carcich and I team up again for another discussion on game development & production
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Joseph Kim
🔥🔥🔥 GameOver: Execs on AI, Steam Sales, Politics on LI + Pokemon Go Liveops
I was told our hot takes are too soft.
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Joseph Kim
🎙️ Understanding Battle Pass Game Design
Chris Cobb CTO of Pragma, Ted Park Indie Game Developer, and Joseph Kim Handsome Dude, discuss the Overwatch 2 battle pass illustrating key design…
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Joseph Kim

February 2025

🔥🔥🔥 GameOver Weekly
Marvel Rivals Layoffs Handwringing, Executive BS, WB Discovery Studio Shutdown | Rapid Growth of Sort Puzzle Games
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Joseph Kim
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Andrei Zubov
Deconstructing Overwatch 2 Battle Pass Design
Players have mixed reactions to Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 Battle Pass. Is the rigid reward structure to blame, and what can be done to fix it? Let’s break…
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Joseph Kim
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Ted Park
Production Lessons: How to Build a Better Game
Critical lessons on navigating uncertainty, scaling teams, and driving success in modern game development - insights from Building Better Games' Ben…
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Joseph Kim
Cracking the 4X Code: First Fun and RiverGame’s Billion-Dollar Strategy
Inside First Fun and RiverGame's billion-dollar strategy that's reimagining how mobile games are built and marketed.
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Joseph Kim
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Justin Y.
The LiveOps Playbook: Secrets from Gaming's Top Operators
Proven strategies from Brawl Stars, Jackpot Party, and SuperScale that drive massive success
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Joseph Kim

January 2025

🎙️ MMPs and Attribution: What Game Studios Need to Know to Grow
Deep dive insights with the best in the games industry- Brian Murphy, Head of Games at AppsFlyer, Josh Chandley, COO at WildCard Games, and James…
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Joseph Kim
📈 Royal Match's $219 Battle Pass Secret: Cracking the Premium Pass Formula
A deep dive into how a casual game transformed core gaming's favorite monetization feature into a $200M+ success story
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Shilpa
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Shikha Singh
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Joseph Kim
🎙️ AI x Gaming: How Campfire Used AI to 5X Engagement in Their Game
Siamak Freydoonnejad, CEO of Campfire, discusses building AI native games and how AI NPCs dramatically increases game engagement
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Joseph Kim
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