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SteamCube Should Be About China

SteamCube only matters if Valve treats China as the primary audience and proves the device drives incremental Steam activity rather than console-like vanity sales.

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Title	Date	Popularity (All‑time)	Popularity (30‑day)
SteamCube Should Be About China	11/21/25
Player Empathy, The East, and Dirty, Dirty Games	11/20/25
Octopus, Pianos, and System/Economy Design	11/19/25
Royal Kingdom Is a Failure, Match3 Is Dead; and the Innovator’s Dilemma Is All That Matters	11/17/25
Bad Policy Letters Hurt Us	10/16/25
Laffer’s Roblox Platform Econ Take	9/11/25
Roblox & Now the Alarming Trojan Horse	9/9/25
Yes, Players May Find Out They’re in an Experiment – So What?	9/6/25
Among Gaming’s Biggest Recent Misses	9/4/25
Lies Gaming Execs Tell	8/30/25
Games Fail at Soft Power & the Moral Duty to Support Japanese Anime	8/26/25
New Game Ideas Are Getting Harder To Find	8/24/25
The Most Ingenious Game of the Last 5 Years & Juggling Monkeys	8/22/25
The System Designer’s Jawbreaker	8/21/25
Video Games Should Do Some Imperialism On Toys Already	8/20/25
Match3 is Slots But Better	8/7/25
This Month in Squad RPG (July 2025, US)	8/6/25
PC/Console/Console Sinuglarity	8/3/25
The Tiny Big Battlefield 6 Bet	8/1/25
Will Gaming Cultural Critics Level Up?	7/30/25
Scopely’s Chess Board, and Pareto Rule Reminder	7/29/25
Income Inequality In Mobile Games	7/28/25
Let Us Pray	7/24/25
Economy Flow Builder & Fortnite API	7/23/25
4x Content Innovation Never Died, Platform Economics Consumed It	7/18/25
Monopoly Go Rivals Any Tech Revenue Story	7/17/25
5 Things About Breakout Hit F2P Live Service Hit Mecha Break	7/16/25
The Curious Fall of Marvel Snap	7/14/25
Why No One Cares About App Store & the EU Anymore	7/9/25
The Best Web3 Arguments (w/Yat Siu, Cofounder of Animoca Brands)	6/16/25
Three Things from 2025 Play Ventures Summit	6/9/25
Economy Diagramming Using Figma & AI	5/19/25
7 Things Squad Busters Needs to Experiment with NOW	5/17/25
Squad Busters 2.0 & SpaceX’s Raptor 3 Engine	5/16/25
Overwatch Uses This One Content Productivity Hack	5/15/25
Law & Economic Order, A Game Economist Investigation	5/12/25
Forget the 30% — Bring Back IDFA for Real Mobile Innovation	5/5/25
Effective Immediately: Epic Achieves Mobile Webstore Liberation	5/1/25
In Search of the Casual Habby & Meta SDK	4/29/25
Why Loot Boxes Exist	4/28/25
Two Troubling Signs for Gaming	4/26/25
SCOPLEY’s NEXT BILLION DOLLAR HIT: THE GAME OF LIFE	4/25/25
Jason Citron’s Discord Exit and the Needed Game Mythos	4/24/25
How to Model Extraction Economies (in Google Sheets)	4/21/25
The Strange Game Agglomeration Effects	4/19/25
Will Monetization Actually Trump Engagement?	4/18/25
Sometimes the Butt of F2P Liveops will consume my thoughts for a day. Today is that day.	4/17/25
The Economics of Cannibalization & Royal Kingdom	4/16/25
Experiment With Seeds, Damn It	4/15/25
Marathon, Extraction Shooters, & The Big Shooter Mistake	4/14/25
How to Create the Monopoly Go Effect (in Google Sheets)	4/11/25
INZOI: THE SIMS HAVE A NEIGHBOR	4/8/25
GEC BONUS EP: What’s up at GDC 2025? (w/Charlie Hsu)	4/7/25
Anti-Ai Artists Need Better Arguments; They’re Losing the AI Debate	4/3/25
Netflix Games Needs to Acquire the Jack(box)-of-All-Trades	3/31/25
Four Things from GDC	3/24/25
Mobile Gaming’s Survival is Married to the U.S. Economy; It Should Ask for A Divorce	3/19/25
Digest or Die: Tripledot’s Big Gamble	3/13/25
The Economics of Match Events	2/24/25
Fisharian Game Economy Tradition	2/17/25
AI In Gaming Has Flopped	2/3/25
The Game is Outside the Game	1/30/25
Playing For Keeps: Steam’s Q5 Releases	1/4/25
On Riot’s Arcane and It’s Cost	11/24/24
Why Great Games Ignore Their Players	11/24/24
WTF Are These Three Battle Pass Things	11/17/24
All Content Is Born Equal and With Unequal Impact	11/11/24
Call of Duty’s End Game Revealed & Bobby Kotick’s Oil Well	10/29/24
Three Things from the Play Ventures Summit	8/16/24
It’s Time for Games to Embrace Aggregation Theory	8/5/24
Three Ways to Improve Taylor Swift’s ARPPU	7/16/24
Squad Busters: Supercell Hits the Apex or Spins Off-Track?	5/20/24
Fallout is the Final Nail in the Transmedia Coffin	4/30/24
Inflation, Ads, and Webstores Change Everything We Know	4/7/24
The Call of Duty Puzzle No One Has Solved	4/1/24
Four Things from GDC	3/25/24
Five things from Think Games Istanbul Google X Deconstructor of Fun Event in Turkey	3/12/24
Gaming’s Best Days Are Behind It	2/12/24
Blizzard is Dead, and Its Murders Are Still Loose	2/6/24
Web3’s Biggest Problem is Solved; Time to Unleash the Uh, Product?	1/29/24
Palworld Achieves Highest Player Count of Any Paid Steam Game Since 2018; It’ll Mean Little	1/10/24
Insomniac Leaks Paint a Bleak Console Landscape; Sony and Microsoft Adrift at Sea	1/8/24
How to Solve “THE” web3 Problem: A Staircase Tax	11/19/23
Roblox’s Battlebit Failure & Adopt Me Ripoff	7/18/23
The Very Slow, Not So Fast, F2P Revolution	7/14/23
Apple Ignores Gaming, and Gaming Ignores Apple	6/8/23
Revenge of the Meta and Marketing Wars	6/7/23
Supply Chains In Everything	6/7/23
The Reverse-Blizzard Thesis	6/7/23
Made in China: The Rise of AAA Chinese Games in the West	6/7/23
Clash of Visions	6/7/23
Why Is Snap Struggling to Scale? It’s the Vertical Progression, Stupid.	1/17/23
PVP Bots are Unethical and It’s Time We Talk About it	11/28/22
Marvel Snap Has Secured Success, but Has It Also Sowed Its Demise?	11/8/22
Immigration Policy Is Coming for the 10-Year Game	8/22/22
The Best Currency Animations of All-Time	8/1/22
Sense & Nonsense in Blockchain Gaming: Three Problems With Tokens	5/30/22
Questions From a Student	4/18/22
Netflix Finds Its Game Nest With Single-Player, Not Live Service	3/7/22
Sense & Nonsense in Blockchain Gaming: Autarky No More!	1/26/22
What Is a Game Economist and Why Now?	12/20/21
Sense & Nonsense in Blockchain Gaming: Is “True Ownership” Actually True?	12/6/21
Sense & Non-sense in Blockchain Gaming: A Series	10/24/21
The Church of FOMO: Can It Stand?	9/27/21
In-Round Progression Is the Biggest Game Design Innovation in a Decade	8/23/21
On Trials & the “Drug-Dealer” Model of Hard Currency	8/8/21
Why I’m a Supply-Side Game Economist	6/27/21
“Community” Leads Us Astray	6/25/21
Why Virtual Currency Exists	6/5/21
The Creator Economy Is for Anyone but Not Everyone	5/31/21
There’s More Money in Blockchain Games Than Blockchain Platforms	5/23/21
Battle Pass Who? We’ve Got Direct Stores	5/16/21
More on the Economics of Battle Pass: Resting Prices, Forecasted Level and Complete Pass	5/9/21
The Environmental Economics Approach to Liveops Content Management	4/25/21
Ultimate Team, Fantasy Sports and the Sorare Thesis	4/19/21
A Simple Model of Cosmetics and Why They’re Hard to Sustain	4/17/21
The Economics of Battle Pass Are Broken. Let’s Fix It.	4/11/21
Why Do Game Genres Evolve? A Kuhnian Explanation	4/4/21
Some Questions for Metaverse(rs)	4/3/21
Is PS+ a Good Idea? I Analyzed 200+ Games to Find Out	3/28/21
Is There An Actual Case for Cyberpunk’s Delay?	1/1/21
Why Do Only Product Managers Write About Games?	12/23/20
Why Do FPS Players Like Small Maps?	12/12/20
Game Companies Are Not Tech Companies Part IV: MB = MC	12/5/20
Game Companies Are Not Tech Companies Part III: The Content Problem	11/6/20
Game Companies Are Not Tech Companies Part II: Platform Power (Or Lack Thereof)	10/31/20
Game Companies Are Not Tech Companies Part I: Every Game Has Networking Effects, They Just Don’t Amount To Much	10/23/20
Can We Get Players to Tell Us Their LTV?	10/21/20
Kantian Ethics for Game Ads and Beyond Is Probably a Good Idea	10/20/20
The Collective-Action Problem of F2P Clans Remains Unsolved	10/19/20
The Economics of Game Pass Demand a Playstation Launch	10/10/20
The Intellectual Poverty of Game Streaming & Subscriptions	9/27/20
The LTV-UA Rebate from Platform Fees	9/20/20
It’s Not Data-Driven or Informed You Want, It’s Science	8/8/20
I Got a Twitter	7/18/20
Why Aren’t You Doing Analysis on Your Impact?	5/24/20
Why does Epic need $1B in new funding? Is this all about Roblox?	5/2/20
Why do contestents break the rules in Netflix’s Too Hot To Handle?	4/26/20
The Economics of Reality TV	4/25/20
1950’s Peruvian Coke and Gacha	10/3/17
Players Go to Their Highest Valued LTV: Ads Are Beautiful Pareto Exchanges	1/16/17
Re-Rewriting Economic History	10/22/16
F2P Demand Curves Are Weird, Just Ask Levitt	9/18/16
Eric Seufert’s Best F2P Blog Post Isn’t About F2P	9/17/16
How to Measure Whales	5/21/16
The Content Problem and the Death of Level Designers	3/14/16
Get More Life Out of Your Lifetime Value Model! A Discussion of Methods.	1/17/16
Optimal Area Currency With Milton	1/5/16
There’s More to A/B Testing Then A & B: I	12/19/15