Archive - Video Games Industry Memo

Beating the content crush, 16/07/2026

PXN, PlayStack, PQube, and Hooded Horse share the secrets of pitching memorable games 😲

Jul 16 • George E. Osborn

Xbox presses reset, 09/07/2026

A brutal round of cuts follows years of Game Pass failure 😬

Jul 9 • George E. Osborn

Inside Italy's Indie Revolution, 02/07/2026

Why 'punk' Italian indie devs are attracting global publisher interest 🇮🇹

Jul 2 • George E. Osborn

June 2026

The Debrief, June 2026

Summer Game Fest, Stop Killing Games and bad World Cup games (note: not England vs Ghana)

Jun 28 • George E. Osborn

Young male gamers are twice as likely to believe conspiracy theories compared to the UK public, 25/06/2026

'Sceptical Scrollers' are also four times as likely to think they can spot misinformation 🤯

Jun 25 • George E. Osborn

The UK social media ban punishes kids for our failure, 18/06/2026

Also, Power Play is out today 🎉

Jun 18 • George E. Osborn

The Other Putin - Playing Politics, June 2026

An exclusive Power Play audiobook extract for VGIM Insiders

Jun 14 • George E. Osborn

How LGBTQ+ video game content is censored across the world, 11/06/2026

A new VGIM long-read report lifts the lid on censorship of queer game content

Jun 11 • George E. Osborn

The European games biz goes lobbying, 04/06/2026

Riding a regulatory wave in Brussels 🏄

Jun 4 • George E. Osborn

May 2026

The Debrief, May 2026

Switch 2 price hikes, Fenris and DeepMind partnership and DC political arcade machines

May 31 • George E. Osborn and Anna Mahtani

Why has the Esports World Cup moved to Paris?, 28/05/2026

Don’t mention the war 😬

May 28 • George E. Osborn

Combatting antisemitism in games, 21/05/2026

We explore a new tool tackling anti-semetic hate crimes in games

May 21 • George E. Osborn and Anna Mahtani

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