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Why video games cost so much to make

Scope, scope, scope

May 12 • Julie Belzanne and Antoine Mayerowitz

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April 2026

Did games really get more costly to make?

By how much, since when, and for whom? We have the receipts.

Apr 14 • Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne

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November 2025

We fixed Steam regional pricing recommendations

Stop scamming Polish players

Nov 14, 2025 • Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne

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How much does it cost to make a video game?

We built a model to estimate the budget of 100,000 games. Here's what we found.

Nov 4, 2025 • Julie Belzanne and Antoine Mayerowitz

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September 2025

By the way, what’s a AA?

A taxonomy of the video game production scope

Sep 9, 2025 • Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne

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