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

The challenging state of the game industry has triggered a lot of conversations, and on the eve of the Game Developers Conference, we assembled an all-star roundtable of thinkers to address the game industry’s struggles and how to solve them. OK, I admit it. Owen Mahoney, former CEO of Nexon, assembled the panel and I tagged along as the moderator.

One of the things that came up was the 224-slide deck posted by Matthew Ball, CEO of Epyllion, who tried to analyze the state of games in 2025. In our conversation about the, we talked for about 90 minutes about the problems and possible solutions in a lively, unscripted conversation.