Archive - Hushcrasher

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

November 2025

We fixed Steam regional pricing recommendations

Steam regional pricing recommendations are broken, so we built this free tool to fix it.

Nov 14, 2025 • Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne

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

September 2025

By the way, what’s a AA?

Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This…

Sep 9, 2025 • Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne

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