Adam Coster News Today

Ive seen GameStops recent stock surge explained a number of ways this week. Its like David and Goliath. Its like Occupy Wall Street. Its like MAGA. Its a group of hopelessly online meme lords causing chaos for the fun of it. Its Main Street America taking its revenge on the Wall Street crowd that tanked the economy and walked away without the slightest of consequences. Its a bunch of Joe Averages proving theyre actually smarter than the self-proclaimed smartest people in the room. Whatever elem...

> When content creators pour time and money into creating something they hope people will buy, it must be frustrating to see masses of pirates consuming those products for free. Nevertheless, a games developer is now advising companies with a perceived piracy problem not to antagonize pirates, since that only leads to stress and a toxic environment. Dealing with pirates raises all sorts of issues for content providers and entertainment companies. On the one hand these are people trying to get...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.]   St. Louis, MO — January 29th, 2021 — Crashlands, the award-winning Crafting ARPG with more than 800,000 players from Butterscotch Shenanigans, launches today on Xbox.   This launch also adds an exclusive new gadget to the story-driven crafting ARPG: The Axe Box. Players on Xbox will be able to craft this unique item, granting them a deployable a...

You spent two years and an enormous amount of human time and resources building your game. Your source code was locked down, people couldnt wait to get a hold of what youd made, and the thing was done, tested, and ready to go. You launched it, and watched the numbers climb. But then you compared those numbers to your revenue... and discovered that most of your users hadnt paid you a dime! After all that hard work, people are just taking your game. You would have been far more financially succ...