Brandon Pero 5/30/26 Brandon Pero 5/30/26

5 Video Game Things I Learned | 2026 May 23 - May 29

May 23 through May 29 brought a surprising amount of video game news despite being so close to Summer Game Fest, and I loved learning these five things about games during that time.

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5 Video Game Things I Learned | 2026 May 16 - May 22

Five things that stuck out to me from May 16 through May 22: XBOX’s rise, Ubisoft and Bungie’s respective falls, more games on Steam, more ways to discover games with the Story-Rich Showcase, and PlayStation pulling away from PC.

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Have Working Conditions in the Video Game Industry Improved?

How has the video game industry changed for its employees over the years? Have we seen an improvement in working conditions? In this post, I explore that question using data largely gathered from the International Game Developers Association.

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5 Video Game Things I Learned | 2026 May 9 - May 15

A new, weekly post where I discuss five things that I learned about video games this week. There’s so much video game news and history to learn about on a regular basis. Here are just five things that stuck out to me.

Brandon Pero 4/21/26 Brandon Pero 4/21/26

What I Believe Really Causes Layoffs in the Video Game Industry

I believe executives in video games have a lot of misconceptions about what causes the mass layoffs we’ve seen. In recent news, the face of this has been Jack Buser of Google Cloud gaming. In this post, I talk about if AI is really the silver bullet to address layoffs.

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The Video Games Job Market

The video game job market has not been spared the wrath of the recent tech industry troubles.