This Week In The Business: Basically Dead

Steve Peterson, Gizmodo
Sat, 03/28/2015 - 7:00am

QUOTE | "Most developers never really made money. They were able to stay in the business. But the way the deals were structured, they were basically dead." - Oddworld founder Lorne Lanning, talking about why capitalism is killing games.Read more...

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