Gamecraft

Mitch Lasky / Blake Robbins
Weekly podcast. Next episode tomorrow.
Gamecraft is a limited series about the modern history of the video game business.

Beginning in the early 1990's, the video game business began a radical transformation from a console and PC packaged goods business into the highly complex, online, multi-platform business it is today. Game industry legend Mitch Lasky and game investor Blake Robbins go on a thematic tour of the last 30 years of gaming, exploring the origins of free-to-play, platform-based publishing, casual & mobile gaming, forever games, user-generated content, consoles, virtual reality, and in-game economies across the eight episodes of Season 1.

In Season 2, Mitch and Blake are back with a new series analyzing the state of the video game business in 2024. They start with a macro view of the current business, before looking at some hot topics in gaming: the rise of powerful independent game studios, emerging markets for games around the world, how innovations in artificial intelligence will change game creation, and the renewed importance of intellectual property in the game business.
27 episodes  •  0 archived  •  
S4 E1·
April 8
April 8
1h 9m
Bonus·
Oct 15, 2025
Oct 15, 2025
37 mins
S3 E8·
May 21, 2025
May 21, 2025
1h 9m
S3 E7·
May 14, 2025
May 14, 2025
52 mins
S3 E6·
May 7, 2025
May 7, 2025
44 mins
S3 E5·
Apr 30, 2025
Apr 30, 2025
1h 6m
S3 E4·
Apr 23, 2025
Apr 23, 2025
56 mins
S3 E3·
Apr 16, 2025
Apr 16, 2025
1h 1m
S3 E2·
Apr 9, 2025
Apr 9, 2025
59 mins
S3 E1·
Apr 2, 2025
Apr 2, 2025
1h 23m