I'm a microeconomist by training and use the economic theory of games throughout most of my research program. Game theory is used as a tool for economic analysis whenever two or more players (people, ...

Free-to-play games are certainly the way of the future, available in the present. These electrifying entertainment attractions are reshaping the gaming world, and players are lapping it up in droves.

Xbox boss Shannon Loftis, who heads up Xbox Publishing for first-party games, believes single-player-only games aren't dead but they do have questions to face around their economic viability. Speaking ...

A browser-based platform to build and estimate game economics and structures for premium, free-to-play, and play-to-earn games, Machinations.io has announced a $3.3 million Series A funding round. The ...

People used to pay one standard price for their favorite games in a one-off transaction. But now, many game companies are offering their games for... Forever games: the economics of the live service ...

A team of University of Delaware students represented the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the highly competitive 2023 Econ Games from March 23-24 in Lexington, Kentucky. This ...

Jaime Tugayev is the News Editor for DualShockers with over a decade of experience, and a much longer love for fantasy, shooters and strategy games. A lot of games have some degree of economic ...

We want to make a board game. It must, of course, teach the world about economics. It must be fun. It’d be nice if it sold ...

Marriage is a negotiation game. A marriage involves compromises that need to be negotiated. For example, decisions about money, work, chores, children, and aging parents must be agreed upon. If the ...