Rob Fahey
Columnist, GamesIndustry.biz

24/09/2008 @ 13:00

State of Independence

To an outsider, the fortunes of the game development industry must seem downright bizarre. Despite year after year of solid growth for the games market as a whole, development seems to follow its own curious cycle. Five years ago, at the height of the last console cycle, it seemed that every week brought news of a game developer going bust. In more recent years, as we approach the apex of the present cycle, it seemed that new studio start-ups were the order of the day.

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