Welcome to The Business of Games Podcast, brought to you by Xsolla. In this Extended Cut, host Lia Ballentine talks with Mark Long, veteran producer, investor, and CEO of Villain Studios, about how indie developers can thrive in an increasingly crowded market and why the future of Web3 depends on making it invisible. With experience at HBO, Microsoft, and as former CEO of Shrapnel, Mark shares a modern indie playbook built around ownership, community, and smart planning. He explains why devel...
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Welcome to The Business of Games Podcast, brought to you by Xsolla. In this Extended Cut, host Lia Ballentine talks with Mark Long, veteran producer, investor, and CEO of Villain Studios, about how indie developers can thrive in an increasingly crowded market and why the future of Web3 depends on making it invisible. With experience at HBO, Microsoft, and as former CEO of Shrapnel, Mark shares a modern indie playbook built around ownership, community, and smart planning. He explains why devel...
Building worlds, sustaining play: IOI’s Olivier Perbet on LiveOps, IP, and the future of AAA games
The Business of Games
33 minutes
1 month ago
Building worlds, sustaining play: IOI’s Olivier Perbet on LiveOps, IP, and the future of AAA games
Welcome to The Business of Games Podcast, brought to you by Xsolla. In this extended cut, host Chris Hewish sits down with Olivier Perbet, Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer at IO Interactive (IOI), to explore how LiveOps transformed Hitman from a boxed release into a living platform and what that means for the future of AAA publishing. From his early career at Disney and Warner Bros. to guiding IOI through independence, Olivier shares how storytelling, player connection, and rapid iterati...
The Business of Games
Welcome to The Business of Games Podcast, brought to you by Xsolla. In this Extended Cut, host Lia Ballentine talks with Mark Long, veteran producer, investor, and CEO of Villain Studios, about how indie developers can thrive in an increasingly crowded market and why the future of Web3 depends on making it invisible. With experience at HBO, Microsoft, and as former CEO of Shrapnel, Mark shares a modern indie playbook built around ownership, community, and smart planning. He explains why devel...
