Category Archives: Analysis

Action Audit: Why Data Caps Won’t Be An Issue For Google Stadia…In The Short Term

Vice recently published an article that summarized Google Stadia’s potential roadblock with ISP data caps. You can find the article here: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5yagg/google-stadia-is-on-a-collision-course-with-broadband-caps-study-shows The article’s spirit is in the right place, but it leaves out crucial details that spell less of a disaster for Stadia in the short term. I don’t agree with the way the… Read More »

Our Take: Industry Insights – EA CEO Interview with GameDaily

We are very excited to announce our first audio/visual experience is now up on our partner YouTube channel – RallyCarDelta Gaming. RCD Gaming is JoeThreeZero’s partner YT channel and will contain a specific subset of our analysis: Industry Insights. After reviewing several ideas we decided to run an in-depth analysis of the Andrew Wilson interview… Read More »

The Scope/Complexity Vision Matrix of Software Development

I’ve spent much of my professional life in project management, particularly in IT. I’ve seen projects run the full spectrum of success & failure, from perfect execution & delivery through complete disaster. It’s important to remember that most projects, particularly software and games, usually don’t hit the extreme ends of the spectrum. It’s a simple… Read More »

Our Take: EA Announces Layoffs of 350

If you’ve spend any time around gaming news today, you may have seen this (report by Jason Schreier at Kotaku): I want to be clear: Jason Schreier has been reporting this accurately and fairly…mostly. I need to keep this short so I am not going to get into the ramifications of certain words & phrases… Read More »

Games, Expenses, Microtransactions, and How It’s All Related

I enjoy discussing the business aspects of the game industry. I want to share my knowledge with those that might not understand why post launch monetization is an important part of funding video game development. To be clear: There are valid debates to be had regarding monetization strategies, but this article is to be taken… Read More »

Action Audit: The Dirt Show – The First Look At Dirt Rally 2.0

I am taking a short break from my upcoming long-form article (regarding micro-transactions) to write an Action Audit on the first Dirt Rally 2.0 livestream. For those that don’t know me (and how would you), one of my passions in life is rally style racing. I don’t personally drive a rally car, but I go to… Read More »

Action Audit: No Man’s Sky NEXT

Welcome to Action Audit! We wanted a feature of the site to be something quick and convenient to read. Our goal with Action Audit is to give you something to consume in five minutes or less. It will generally consist of game reviews but may occasionally spin off into other topics, such as industry news… Read More »

Our Take: EA’s Response To The Star Wars Battlefront 2 Controversy

Shuffling the top means changes are coming…usually. [Update 9/10/2018 – Patrick Söderlund has decided to leave EA, post promotion. EA tried to keep him there with several incentives, but ultimately he chose to leave. That does not alter the point of this article. In an organization as big as EA, true change still must come from… Read More »

The Battleroyale Market – Why LawBreakers Failed and Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds is Thriving – Part One

PUBG is now 38.3% of all internet traffic. The rest is cat videos…and porn. This is part one in a three part series that explains why games like Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite have exploded in popularity while other, seemingly well constructed games, died off before they even made a splash. Playerunknown’s Battleground (PUBG) is a… Read More »

Our Take: There Is Nothing Inherently Wrong with EA’s EOMM System

EOMM matchmaking gives players an expected win every once in a while. The horror! If you’ve been around any video game forums or YouTube the past couple of days, you might have run across YongYea and Jim Sterling talking about EA’s EOMM system. If you want to catch up on the original story, you can… Read More »