Buying a mobile player costs about a third more than it did a year ago. Adjust’s Gaming App Insights Report 2026 puts global blended gaming CPI at $0.56, up 30% year over year, and North America at $1.68 after a 31% jump. Now set that against what happens to the players you just paid for. […]

Everything you need to know before you sign a contract, from defining roles to evaluating teams and choosing the right hiring model. The games market will turn over $577.91 billion this year on Statista’s forecast, and one in four developers has been laid off inside the past two years according to GDC’s 2026 State of […]

Apple reviews 90% of submissions in under 24 hours, by its own published average. Everything before that submission is where iOS games die: the month spent on a mechanic that was never fun, the art library rebuilt because nobody locked the atlas size, the launch date set on the assumption of first-pass approval. So the […]

Every model, sprite, and UI panel in your build came out of the same production chain, and most of what goes wrong with game art goes wrong before anyone opens Blender. 19,112 games launched on Steam in 2025, a record. Roughly 2,200 of them finished the year with no reviews at all. Another 7,100 never […]

Your VFX backlog is growing, your one shader artist is buried, and the launch date isn’t moving. Here’s when outsourcing actually solves that, how to vet a studio without getting burned, and what it really costs in 2026. Most studios don’t plan this decision. They back into it after a few too many nights patching […]

Two-thirds of AAA studios cut staff last year. Their roadmaps didn’t shrink to match. Video game co-development exists for exactly that gap, fewer hands, same ambition, often closed within weeks. Whether the problem is a missing discipline, a slipping milestone, or a live-ops backlog nobody has time to clear, the fix looks the same: a […]

Start with the number: 70%+ of the top 1,000 mobile games run on Unity. Not some, not most — 70%. And the global mobile gaming market crossed $98.7 billion in 2024 (Newzoo). That’s the playing field. Over 1.5 million creators build on Unity every month (Unity), and the studios competing to hire them are not […]