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Game Economist Cast

What does the new wave of open economies mean for monetization? Will negative externalities overcome cosmetic economies in the long run? What exactly does a game economist do? Game Economist Cast is a roundtable discussion of the latest developments in mobile, HD, and crypto games, through a bunch of people figuring it out using the economic toolkit.

GEC BONUS EP: What's up at GDC 2026?

38 mins; March 18, 2026

E48: Ozempic, 2XKO and ARPDAU For Wild Takes

61 hours 19 mins; February 15, 2026

E47: Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma, Social Norms Go Astray, and Why Game Economy Needs Math

71 hours 1 min; January 26, 2026

E46: Economics of Sweepstakes, Vertical Word Game Progression, and UXR Failure

55 mins; December 14, 2025

E45: Autobattler Econ, WILD UGC Algo & A Currency Debate for the Ages (w/Arto Huhta) Autobattler Econ, WILD UGC Algo & The Big Currency Question (w/Arto Huhta)

73 hours 44 mins; November 23, 2025

E44: Incentive UGC Determinism for the Future of Gaming (w/Alex Seropian)

45 mins; September 29, 2025

E43: Bentham's Body, Hypothesis Testing & Marginal ROAS (w/Eric Seufert)

78 hours 12 mins; September 14, 2025

E42: Vertical Progression Is Gaming's Sex & Finally A Web3 Hope

66 hours 22 mins; September 01, 2025

E41: Karl Marx as a 5* Character & Ukrainian Drone Economy Design

62 hours 19 mins; August 04, 2025

E40: The Best Web3 Arguments (w/Yat Siu, Cofounder of Animoca Brands)

70 hours 24 mins; June 16, 2025

E39: Law & Economic Order, A Game Economist Investigation

70 hours 9 mins; May 12, 2025

E38: Economics of Game Innovation & AI's Now Proof

39 mins; April 21, 2025

GEC BONUS EP: What's up at GDC 2025 (w/Charlie Hsu)

36 mins; April 06, 2025

E37: Is Gaming Better Than Everyone at Experimentation? (w/Dr.Julian Runge)

71 hours 35 mins; March 03, 2025

E36: Pokémon Pocket's Gimped Trading and Matthew Ball's State of Gaming

73 hours 45 mins; February 10, 2025

E35: In Defense of Loot Boxes (w/Dr. Matthew McCaffrey)

82 hours 33 mins; January 19, 2025

E34: A Theory of Optimal Economic Balance

80 hours 46 mins; December 01, 2024

E33: Halo's Economist & Player Price Experiment Complaints? (w/Dr.Jason Arentz)

70 hours 22 mins; November 03, 2024

E32: Should more firms be like Valve? (w/Dr. Peter Klein)

55 mins; October 20, 2024

E31: Potty Mouth & "That" Levitt-King Paper

71 hours 20 mins; October 06, 2024

E30: The Economics of Game Development

60 hours 55 mins; September 15, 2024

E29: Can a Stick of Butter Keep You Sober?

77 hours 6 mins; July 14, 2024

E28: B-A-N-A-N-A!

58 mins; July 01, 2024

E27: The Best Game Economy of All-Time

64 hours 21 mins; June 09, 2024

E26: Price Theorists Battle Behavioralists for Marvel Snap

65 hours 43 mins; May 19, 2024

E25: The Veblen Goods Model That Explains Web3 (w/Dr.Sam Rosen)

56 mins; April 28, 2024

E24: Tragedy of the UGC Commons & Gold Bugs

63 hours 44 mins; April 13, 2024

GEC BONUS EP: What's up at GDC 2024?

49 mins; March 25, 2024

E23: Four Game Economists Walk into a Social Casino (w/Dr.Matt Melnyk)

51 mins; March 10, 2024

E22: Airdropping The Missing Web3 Palworld Take

74 hours 43 mins; February 20, 2024

E21: Subs, Doms, Surprise, and Suspense

67 hours 27 mins; January 22, 2024

E20: Game Inflation is Misunderstood

64 hours 4 mins; December 10, 2023

E19: Why Doesn't Apple or Steam Use Regional Pricing? (w/Bill Grosso)

64 hours 48 mins; November 26, 2023

E18: Internet Spaceships Are Serious Business (w/Dr.Eyjolfur Gudmundsson)

67 hours 40 mins; November 12, 2023

E17: Regressions, Gin Rummy, and a VERY Special Guest (w/David Nelson)

75 hours 47 mins; October 30, 2023

E16: Should Match-3 Players Choose Their Difficulty? (w/Dr.Julian Runge)

79 hours 56 mins; September 24, 2023

E15: Video Game Monetary Policy Real Talk

76 hours 43 mins; September 10, 2023

E14: Hayekian Emergent Gameplay & Reddit Gone Wild

81 hours 51 mins; September 06, 2023

E13: Rank Inflation, Chris' New KPI, and Defending the Indefensible

69 hours 53 mins; August 13, 2023

E12: Bots, Battlebit, Brawl Stars, and Battlestar Galactica

74 hours 30 mins; July 24, 2023

E11: Game Economist's Creed Meets Midwest Web3 Farming

71 hours 27 mins; July 10, 2023

E10: Monetizing Reddit, Fortnite Into The Bloodstream, & Game Thesis

67 hours 52 mins; June 27, 2023

E09: Regressive & Progressive UGC Taxes

71 hours 18 mins; May 29, 2023

E08: Voluptuous Consumer Surplus

66 hours 5 mins; May 21, 2023

GEC BONUS EP: What's up at GDC 2023?

20 mins; April 03, 2023

E07: The Mailbag Episode

55 mins; March 28, 2023

E06: What's the deal with markets anyways?

72 hours 32 mins; March 14, 2023

E05: Korv, Deluxe Edition Theory, & Market Power

66 hours 11 mins; March 08, 2023

E04: Costco Hot Dogs, Matchmaking, & More Snap

53 mins; January 29, 2023

E03: Land, Where's the Beef?

51 mins; January 08, 2023

E02: Fork & Knife

62 hours 40 mins; December 05, 2022

E01: And we're live

61 hours 22 mins; November 20, 2022

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