In-Game Ads Are Already Here. The Real Question Is How Weird the Industry Wants to Make Them
When people hear “ads in games,” they tend to imagine the worst version immediately: a boss fight paused by a…
Category: Industry
Bad Benchmarks, Big Demand: How Lisuan Tech Sold 30,000 GPUs Anyway
You would think a new graphics card needs killer benchmarks to make a splash. Apparently not. Chinese GPU startup Lisuan Tech has…
PC vs Smartphone: The Business of Obsolescence
PC vs smartphone is a comparison that usually revolves around performance, gaming, or productivity. PCs are more powerful, smartphones are…
PC Gaming Spending 2026: Middle Class Is Getting Richer
The games business loves a blockbuster narrative. Every quarter, the spotlight swings back to the same giants: the forever games,…
State of the Global Workplace 2026: The AI Paradox
Here’s the thing about the future of work: we were promised robots would take over the boring stuff so we…
80,000 Tech Layoffs, One Question: Is AI the Cause or the Excuse?
The tech industry’s favorite two-word explanation in 2026 might be “because AI.” Convenient, neat, investor-friendly — and maybe a little…
Remote Work Isn’t the Problem—Your Company Might Be
In March 2026, researchers from the London School of Economics dropped a report with a title that sounds like it…
OpenAI Kills Sora, Exposing the Weak Economics of AI Video
For a while, Sora was treated like the future of internet video. Depending on who you asked, it was either…
The 2026 Gaming App Insights Report Shows Mobile Growth Is Getting Smarter and Harder
For years, mobile gaming had a pretty forgiving growth formula: buy a lot of installs, celebrate the charts, and deal…
PC Shipments Are Headed for a 2026 Faceplant as Memory and Storage Prices Go Wild
The PC market was supposed to be settling into something resembling normal. Not exciting, not disastrous, just the usual cycle…
Highguard Died in 45 Days and The Story Is Messier Than It Looks
Live-service games usually fail slowly. Highguard didn’t even get the chance. Wildlight Entertainment’s raid shooter is shutting down on March 12, 2026,…
Mobile Market in 2026: The End of Easy Growth
There was a time when launching a mobile app felt like tossing a message in a bottle into a wide,…
Research: OLED Monitors Are Growing Fast
A few years ago, OLED monitors were that mythical creature everyone talked about but rarely owned. Gorgeous, yes. Practical? Debatable.…
Attendance vs Productivity: Why Presence Does Not Equal Performance
For many companies, productivity has a remarkably simple definition: Are you sitting at your desk? Did you arrive on time?…
If We Know Better, Why Don’t We Work Better?
Why the workplace stays stuck, even in a world overflowing with research, stories, and hard evidence. For years, the conversation…
The Science of a Fulfilling Work: What Makes People Truly Happy at Work
Around the world, studies repeatedly show that work — the place where we spend more than one-third of our lives…
Why Do Successful People Seem to Get More Stupid?
At first glance, the idea sounds absurd. How could people who have climbed to the top of their fields—visionary entrepreneurs,…
AI Didn’t Kill Journalism—Humans Did
A while ago, I stumbled upon an Instagram post with an audacious claim: AI has an 80–100% chance of replacing…
World Happiness Report 2025: An Overview
The World Happiness Report 2025 offers a sweeping look at the latest global trends in wellbeing, anchored around one central…
The Pursuit of Meaning: Can Work and Passion Coexist?
Since ancient civilizations, people have sought meaning in life, including in their work. A study by PwC shows that 83%…