Brandon Pero 5/22/26 Brandon Pero 5/22/26

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.

Brandon Pero 5/16/26 Brandon Pero 5/16/26

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.

Brandon Pero 3/17/25 Brandon Pero 3/17/25

The Video Games Job Market

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