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Gaming luminaries explore industry’s struggles and how its best days are still ahead


Matthew Ball started a big conversation about the state of the game industry when he launched a 224-slide PowerPoint deck. We continued it.

Our crew included Mitch Lasky, retired from the job of general partner at Benchmark Capital; and Tynan Sylvester, founder of Ludeon and the developer who gave us the game RimWorld. And Mahoney spent a decade as CFO and later CEO of Nexon, the Asian online game company that invented free-to-play and has giant hits like MapleStory, Dungeon & Fighter, KartRider, Sudden Attack and my favorite Dave the Diver. One of the things that was fun for one of our GamesBeat conferences was Mitch and Owen did a fireside chat in the online-only virtual days, where they talked about a lot of the issues in the game industry.

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