Business — Game Cookies

Kiki holds a completed game beneath a Bit Reactor finish-line arch while some developers wait across a broken track and Chip braces a loose plank.

AnalyxyzOctober 8, 2026 · 6 min read

🍪 Shipping the Game Doesn’t Mean the Team Is Safe

Bit Reactor is bringing back some furloughed developers. Gravity Well has lost more than 40 staff after its funding disappeared. Two different situations…

By Leo

BusinessOctober 1, 2026 · 9 min read

🍪 Grasshopper Leaves NetEase With Exit Skills, After a Wave of Studio Cuts

Hello there, punk-game pilgrims, publisher-watchers, and acquisition-cycle survivors… Grasshopper Manufacture Inc. becomes independent from NetEase Games…

By Leo

Detective Kiki receives an Atari document sleeve in the rain while Chip holds their satchel open beneath an arcade awning.

BusinessSeptember 30, 2026 · 11 min read

🍪 Atari Is Rebuilding. Its Shareholders Deserve Answers.

Hello there, cartridge keepers, retro revivalists, and fine-print adventurers… Atari has assembled a bigger gaming business. Its financing is also giving…

By Leo

Kiki and Chip lead five colorful fantasy armies toward a giant crowned King towering above a mountain fortress, turning the labor pressure around King into a playful medieval battle metaphor.

BusinessSeptember 25, 2026 · 5 min read

🍪 King Said No. Five Unions Lined Up. It Signed Before the Strike.

Hello there, candy crushers, contract watchers, and strike-clock campers… King signed a collective bargaining agreement with Unionen and Sveriges Ingenjörer…

By Leo

Kiki and Chip react in shock as a Grim Reaper figure with Asha Sharma’s face knocks on Ninja Theory’s door, while Compulsion, Double Fine and Undead Labs are marked “Out of Xbox” and Arkane remains “In Consultation.”

BusinessSeptember 24, 2026 · 9 min read

🍪 Xbox Keeps Pressing Reset. Players Still Need a Reason to Stay.

Hello there, Spartan loyalists, Game Pass jugglers, and cloud-hour counters… Xbox is rearranging the people who make its games while preparing to change how…

By Leo

Kiki holds a glowing magical shield around herself and floating Chip as advertisement spaceships attack from every direction.

BusinessSeptember 16, 2026 · 7 min read

🍪 Microsoft’s Ad Patent Tests the Mobile Bargain on Console Games

Hello there, checkpoint campers, cutscene protectors, and one-more-round negotiators… Your next quiet moment in a game could look very different to the…

By Leo

Kiki pulls an advertising banner off a skate ramp while Chip braces its wheeled reel beside a football pitch.

BusinessSeptember 15, 2026 · 7 min read

🍪 EA Wants to Sell Advertisers Your Next Match

Hello there, touchline tacticians, kickflip escape artists, and sponsored-replay skippers… Electronic Arts (EA) wants advertisers to buy their way into…

By Leo

BusinessSeptember 7, 2026 · 8 min read

🍪 Mexico’s 8% Gaming Tax Still Exists. Developers Want It Repealed

Hello there, border-hopping players, global game makers, and wallet defenders… If you make or sell games outside Mexico, its 8% gaming tax can still…

By Leo

Kiki and Chip race across a fantasy airship as sealed story envelopes are pulled toward a closing mechanical gate.

BusinessSeptember 3, 2026 · 6 min read

🍪 Final Fantasy VII Revelation’s $110 Finale Is Already Selling Two More Stories

Hello there, materia accountants, Highwind pilots, and premium-edition archaeologists… Square Enix used today’s State of Play to confirm that Final Fantasy…

By Leo

Kiki comforts a crying Jinx beside a gravestone marked 2XKO while a tearful Chip stands nearby in a game-controller cemetery.

BusinessAugust 26, 2026 · 9 min read

🍪 2XKO’s Creative Gamble Came With a Layoff Clause

Hello there, cookie munchers, tag fighters, creative gamblers, and everyone who has discovered that corporate risk becomes extremely personal the moment…

By Leo

Kiki compares two ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X handhelds in a workshop while Chip watches beside a balance scale.

BusinessAugust 25, 2026 · 8 min read

🍪 ASUS’ $1,299 Xbox Handheld Keeps Last Year’s Core Specs

Hello there, handheld hunters, OLED believers, and anyone whose wallet just developed a dead pixel. ASUS has finally priced the ROG Xbox Ally X20.…

By Leo

Kiki stands in a Twitch-like streaming studio while a giant automated data conveyor quietly copies streams, chat bubbles, clips, and channel images toward an abstract Amazon-style AI server; Chip desperately reaches for a small opt-out toggle.

BusinessAugust 24, 2026 · 9 min read

🍪 Twitch Turned Streamers Into AI Training Data. Now One of Them Is Suing.

Hello there, cookie munchers, stream goblins, chat lurkers, and everyone who just learned that “privacy settings” can apparently include a surprise side…

By Leo