What Went Wrong At Build a Rocket Boy?

Leslie Benzies’ studio promised a new world where players could make games of their own. Its first commercial release, MindsEye, became one of 2025’s worst-reviewed games. We explore what went wrong.

Leslie Benzies’ studio promised a new world where players could make games of their own. Its first commercial release, MindsEye, became one of 2025’s worst-reviewed games. We explore what went wrong.

Bending Spoons has built an unusual acquisition machine around Evernote, Vimeo, AOL, Airtable and other established digital businesses, keeping the products while radically reshaping the companies behind them.

Cloud Imperium has raised more than $1 billion in community funding for Star Citizen and Squadron 42, but its flagship multiplayer game remains unfinished almost 14 years after its announcement. What is going wrong?

Inside the global iGaming industry: its products, major companies, revenue sources, regulatory pressures and the human cost of gambling moving online.

The multiplayer hide-and-seek game turned player creativity into an extraordinarily effective marketing system. Its declining player count also reveals the possible limits of that formula.

Horizontal and vertical SaaS take different routes to product design, customer acquisition and growth. In this article, we compare their economics, strengths and limitations.

New EMEA headcount data reveals a sharp divide between fintech and travel. The difference may reflect when each market made its decisive digital transition.

Fragmented markets, recurring revenue and embedded workflows are drawing acquisitive software groups and investors deeper into vertical SaaS roll-up strategies.

A comparative test of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity found no single standard for literary imitation, with some systems refusing living-author style requests, and others complying.

Traditional copyright law protects an author’s words but not their style. Generative AI, which can imitate literary style at scale, pushes this distinction to breaking point.