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Grand Theft Auto Former Rockstar and GTA lead Dan Houser says gaming can "either go somewhere really interesting or somewhere that gets overly focused on making money"

Games MMO vet picks through the games industry carnage and blames "gigantic investments" in games that were "burning money": "A fraction of that could have created a lot of smaller games"

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Open World Games AAA games like the $70 Ghost of Yotei are really just for "more affluent people," says analyst, as soaring prices push players toward free games and Fortnite: "People just don't realize, because they're not paying attention"

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RPGs Upcoming Persona-inspired tactics RPG Demonschool was delayed due to Silksong, even though it doesn't share the Hollow Knight sequel's genre – and it's all thanks to our "capitalist society"

MMO Games You can use "a tenth" of the AAA "$400 million budget" and still get "not so different results" if you do it right, RuneScape CEO says: "We've seen that from Clair Obscur and a bunch of others"

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Is the games industry too focused on printing money?

Dan Houser, the co-founder of Rockstar Games, recently raised these concerns when discussing the future of the games industry.

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Is the games industry too focused on printing money?

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