Stardock's Wardell: big game studios may be ending like the magazine industry did
draginol · x · 2026-10-23
Stardock founder Brad Wardell (draginol) reacts to another studio closure: multiple things can be true at once, and the age of major game studios may be ending. He draws an analogy to tech and general magazines that once employed thousands of well-paid journalists and illustrators before technology made 'everyone' a game or tech site, arguing the same disruption may hit studios, with other factors merely hastening economic non-viability. The quoted post accuses anti-woke commentators of profiting off closures; Wardell reframes it as structural industry change.
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