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Christopher Dring
Personal blog · thegamebusiness.comgamesbusiness
Christopher Dring writes The Game Business, a personal blog at thegamebusiness.com about games and business. Since 2025, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this as the original source on GOG hiring private investigators to track down IP rights holders for game preservation, preferred over a page summarising it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Expert analysis, exclusive data, and in-depth interviews on the global video game industry — delivered by industry insider Christopher Dring.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/when-we-launched-resident-evil-on2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-17
- Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-09
What Hacker News says?
Link to the actual article instead of a page summarizing the article: https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/when-we-launched-resident-...
Comment linking /p/when-we-launched-resident-evil-on
on “GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders”Submitted Over 50% of the job cuts in video games are in California as a story · 5 points
HN discussionPrevious discussion on this a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45620394 And the longer text from the original source: https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/when-we-launched-resident-...
Comment linking /p/when-we-launched-resident-evil-on
on “Games Preservation Is Hard and Sometimes Involves Private Detectives”Submitted Xbox Game Studios boss Craig Duncan steps down as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted One of the biggest game makers reveals 'uncomfortable truth' about AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ubisoft's Death by a Thousand Cuts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ubisoft&Tencent Create Standalone Subsidiary for Assassin Creed,FarCry,Rainbow6 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas as a story · 1 points
HN discussion