Save Point: Perspectives on the Games Industry, 2025 (Games Industry Series)

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The video game industry has never been bigger — or stranger. In Save Point: Perspectives on the Games Industry 2025, veteran publisher Scott Millard chronicles a year in the business from the inside: a global tour through the forces shaping modern gaming, from indie horror and sovereign wealth to the algorithms quietly deciding what players see next.

Blending personal anecdotes with sharp financial and cultural insight, Millard examines how capital, creativity, and control have become the new fault lines of interactive entertainment. What happens when crypto meets publishing? When state-backed funds become tastemakers? When horror becomes the last honest genre?

Both brutally honest and surprisingly hopeful, Save Point captures the contradictions of a business that’s part art, part algorithm, and all ambition — and asks what it means to keep creating in a medium where every “save point” is also a new beginning.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0FX2J4Y39
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 13, 2025
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 215 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8269233727
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9 ounces
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 – 18 years
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.49 x 8.5 inches
Book 2 of 2 ‏ : ‎ Games Industry Series
Best Sellers Rank: #2,395,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,908 in Computer History & Culture (Books) #4,134 in Video & Computer Games #4,999 in Computer & Video Game Strategy Guides
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