Forte Forethought - Market Research

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What really happened with Gamestop?

You’ve probably heard the tale of GME, the ticker symbol for the video game retailer GameStop, and WallStreetBets (WSB), the 8 million-strong Reddit community of insurgent stock investors. WSB made a successful push to send GME soaring in just two weeks from under $20 to an all-time high price over $347 on January 27th, 2021, […]

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Game Marketplaces Survey

What do marketplaces look like in games? That’s the question that led us to conduct a deep-dive analysis of a sampling of 25 prominent and widely used game marketplaces, in order to better understand the different mechanisms they use, the flaws and potential evident in each, and their impact on players, developers and gameplay. Based […]

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