SuperJoost Playlist
SuperJoost PlayList is your weekly review of tech and entertainment through the lens of the video games business. Following major changes, strategic challenges, technological transitions, and how companies deal with them.
RAMpocalypse comes for Steam Machine
Engine failure
Data, play, love
Discord's IPO heralds a year of sobriety
Soccer unties the world
Irrelevant play
Europe's gaming reset
Steam's Trojan horse
Game Pass, or fail
Electronic Arts' $55B buyout doesn't add up
The $100,000 developer surcharge
New Battlefields
The Brainrot economy
Console makers play with pricing
Four publishers, four playbooks
Xbox firing on all cylinders
No kings left in gaming
Console’s brand new death
Roblox blooms
Mobile gaming's $4.1 billion reboot
Doesn’t play, still wins
Steam’s monopoly moment has arrived
Grand Flex Auto
Bad Apple
Gaming's billion-dollar gamble
Gaming's counter-cycle
Tax break
Second thoughts on Switch 2
Thoughts on Discord's IPO
The State of Play at SXSW
Toys transcending
Nintendo Switch's second act
The next big games conference
Asmodee rolls dice on divestiture
PlayStation's new, new CEO
EA drops the ball
Platform politics
Keighley's kingdom
Apple finds friend in VR
Ubisoft defies market
Musk gets into gaming
Taxman don't playeth
Subject, to change
Election games
Brands, ads, and video games
Roblox’s Hindenburg moment
Playtika’s $2 billion bet
The Play Pendulum
PlayStation-flation
Introducing ALDORA
Monkey King defies heavens
The $250 billion video games market
Luxury gaming
Metaverse 2.0
Digital toys at play
Supercell struggle
Having a ball
Immersion interrupted
Falling into grace
PlayStation's two princes
Reading what's next
Video games and the Anxious Generation
Fallout favorite
The New York Times, a Wordle company
Mobile gaming’s new data monopoly
TikTok time’s up
Xbox nothing burger
Betting the kingdom
Apple’s passive aggression
Palworld, the equal-opportunity offender
Death, and rebirth, of virtual reality
Video game predictions for 2024
Insomniac breach
Netflix's most popular gaming content