Brandon Pero 8/22/26 Brandon Pero 8/22/26

5 Video Game Things I Learned | 2026 August 15 - August 21

Geoff Keighley came out about the process for selecting trailers to go on Gamescom’s Opening Night Live. PlayStation suffers at the hands of live service once again. Reports show that gamers aren’t particularly interested in new games, but how reliable is the reporting? This week is wrapped up with GTA VI leaks and some AI talk.

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.