This is Part 4 of “Skin in the Game,” a special project of “Marketplace Morning Report” that looks at what video games, and the vast industry that surrounds them, can tell us about economics, business ...

Marriage is a negotiation game. A marriage involves compromises that need to be negotiated. For example, decisions about money, work, chores, children, and aging parents must be agreed upon. If the ...

A lot of games have some degree of economic management, but only actually stand out in this category. Deep economic models make every action you take more impactful and give some weight to decisions ...

Free-to-play games are certainly the way of the future, available in the present. These electrifying entertainment attractions are reshaping the gaming world, and players are lapping it up in droves.

Xbox boss Shannon Loftis, who heads up Xbox Publishing for first-party games, believes single-player-only games aren't dead but they do have questions to face around their economic viability. Speaking ...

(Editor's note: Reprinted with permission from "Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work" by Daryl Fairweather, published by the University of ...

Jaime Tugayev is the News Editor for DualShockers with over a decade of experience, and a much longer love for fantasy, shooters and strategy games. A lot of games have some degree of economic ...