Matthew Ball
@ballmatthew
Entrepreneur, advisor, inter/national bestselling author, and TV/film/game producer (also: not a VC). Retired wildfire fighter, active battle royaler.
[PRESENTATION] The State of Video Gaming in 2025 --- 220 slides covering why gaming soared from 2011-21 then suddenly stalled (no, not COVID), where growth is and isn't, Black Hole Games, China's global rise, the brutal effects of TikTok + IDFA, Steam, more [URL in Next Post]
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220 slides covering why gaming soared from 2011-21 then suddenly stalled (no, not COVID), where growth is and isn't, Black Hole Games, China's global rise, the brutal effects of TikTok + IDFA, Steam, more
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![ballmatthew's tweet image. [PRESENTATION] The State of Video Gaming in 2025
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220 slides covering why gaming soared from 2011-21 then suddenly stalled (no, not COVID), where growth is and isn't, Black Hole Games, China's global rise, the brutal effects of TikTok + IDFA, Steam, more
[URL in Next Post]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GhSRDnHXwAA1ccN.jpg)
![ballmatthew's tweet image. [PRESENTATION] The State of Video Gaming in 2025
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220 slides covering why gaming soared from 2011-21 then suddenly stalled (no, not COVID), where growth is and isn't, Black Hole Games, China's global rise, the brutal effects of TikTok + IDFA, Steam, more
[URL in Next Post]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GhSRDnIXsAA53fM.jpg)
![ballmatthew's tweet image. [PRESENTATION] The State of Video Gaming in 2025
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220 slides covering why gaming soared from 2011-21 then suddenly stalled (no, not COVID), where growth is and isn't, Black Hole Games, China's global rise, the brutal effects of TikTok + IDFA, Steam, more
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Today we're we’re opening the doors to IP collaborations at scale on Roblox. Our new Licenses catalog lets creators apply to build with some of the biggest IPs— starting with partners like @Lionsgate, and their iconic titles like Twilight, Saw, and more. corp.roblox.com/newsroom/2025/…
Our vision is that Creators don't have to think about infrastructure - it just works at any scale. This includes during some recent record breaking peaks... corp.roblox.com/newsroom/2025/…
U.S. District Court finds Anthropic's use of copyright books (i.e. w/o express consent/agreement/deal) to train LLMs is "transformative" ("among the most transformative in our lifetime") thus justified as fair use + "in light of the purposes of copyright" documentcloud.org/documents/2598…
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Rents jump shocking 15% after NYC ditches broker fees: ‘discouraging’ trib.al/Jnq2SrZ
YouTube to Add Google's Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform hollywoodreporter.com/business/digit…
Everything dies, baby, that’s a fact. But maybe everything that dies someday comes back… 10/24/25 - only in theaters! (With love from South Jersey - as the Northerners know, we’re the Garden, they’re the State. 😮)
Jeremy Allen White is Bruce Springsteen in the new trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. In theaters October 24.
Let's gooooooooo
ANDOR scores its first top spot in Nielsen streaming ratings, thanks to a strong second season and 3 at a time episode release strategy. A rare win for Disney+ in the streaming ratings game…..
Newly available for free on Android worldwide and on iOS in the European Union: 🦸 In DC Heroes United, play as heroes like Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman in a single-player roguelite. 🟦 shapez, is a minimalist factory automation game where you build factories that create…
Great new dollar value-estimates for the largest growing markets in the video gaming business, and from the best in the region
Our 2025 Market Model Reports are now available for 13 of the most important countries for video games 🌟 Dive into 2024–2029e gaming forecasts for China, India, East Asia (JP, KR), SEA (ID, MY, PH, SG, TH, VN), and MENA (Egypt, KSA, UAE) 🧭 🧵Some key trends we observed:
Tencent has acquired just over 15% of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios: insider-gaming.com/tencent-has-ac…
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With OnlyFans' business back in the news, sharing some slides from my report on the company last year. When considering OnlyFans revenues, profits, scale, defensibility, reach, and impact, the company is probably the most successful founded in the UK since DeepMind in 2010, the…
Introducing interactive video from @odysseyml—video you can watch and interact with, imagined by AI in real-time. Give it a try for free today on (almost) any device, and let us know what you think. We think it's pretty cool!
Netflix co-founder @reedhastings joins the board of AI firm Anthropic. Hastings previously served on the boards of Microsoft and Facebook. He currently serves on the board of some company named Bloomberg. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Netflix Inc. co-founder and Chairman Reed Hastings is joining the board of the $61.5 billion AI startup Anthropic. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…