Colossal Order
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Video Games Finance Cheat Sheet: Autumn 2025
This autumn 2025 edition of a recurring newsletter feature digests the latest quarterly results from the largest publicly traded game companies, the first such roundup in roughly six months.
- Nintendo’s net sales surged 110.1% to $7.1 billion in Q2 FY2026, fueled by the launch of the Switch 2 and strong performance from Mario Kart World.
- Roblox grew its daily active users by 70% to 151.5 million and reached $1.92 billion in bookings, though the company still reported a net loss of $257.4 million.
- Microsoft’s gaming division saw a 2% overall revenue decline, driven primarily by a 29% drop in Xbox hardware sales.
Video Games Industry MemoNov 2025
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Building and Rebuilding the Anthropocene in Cities: Skylines
This paper examines the city-building game Cities: Skylines (Colossal Order, 2015) through an ecocritical lens, arguing that the genre reveals the forms of power driving the climate crisis.
- The paper argues that Cities: Skylines (Colossal Order, 2015) appears to offer omniscient control over city planning, but beneath this fantasy lies an ecological power in which growth and capitalist logics destabilise environments and ecosystems.
- Drawing on Eugene Thacker's 'world-without-us' concept, the analysis shows the game's pristine opening landscapes invite players to turn an impersonal planet into a personalised 'world-for-us' through civic construction.
- The central finding is that the game reproduces contemporary patterns of ecological power rather than offering alternatives, channelling players toward unsustainable and destructive engagements with nature.
DiGRAJun 2023
