UNBOXING: Play & Profit for the Gaming Curious
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The UNBOXING podcast is a weekly dose of insight into play and profit for the gaming curious.
Joost crunches data. Laine rummages in archives. Together these two NYU professors unlock the secrets of the games business they share with their students and cover the games news for insiders and newbies alike—your weekly dose of commentary and insight for anyone curious about why games matter in today's economy.
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Laine Nooney is an Associate Professor of Media Industries at New York University, specializing in historical, cultural, and economic analysis of the video game and computer industries. Their first book, The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal, was published in May 2023 by the University of Chicago Press. They are the co-founder of ROMchip, the first scholarly journal of game history, and their own research has been featured in popular venues such as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Motherboard, and NPR, as well as academic journals such as Game Studies, The American Journal of Play, and Journal of Visual Culture.
Joost van Dreunen teaches at the NYU Stern School of Business and is the author of One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games. Previously Joost was co-founder and CEO of SuperData Research, a games market research firm, which was acquired by Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN) in 2018. He is an advisor to firms active in interactive entertainment and publishes a weekly newsletter on gaming, tech, and entertainment called the SuperJoost Playlist. Joost received a MA from the University of Amsterdam and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
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