Welcome to Player Driven, the hub where gaming insights and community collide. We believe that behind every great game is a thriving community and an unforgettable player experience. Whether it’s building inclusive environments, exploring the latest tech, or diving into the art of storytelling, our mission is simple: to empower the creators, communities, and players that make the gaming world extraordinary. What We’re About: 🎮 Insightful Conversations – Through our podcast and community clubhouse, we bring industry leaders, creators, and innovators together to explore the cutting-edge of gaming. 🌍 Player-Centric Focus – From accessibility to trust and safety, we champion the initiatives that keep players at the heart of the industry. 📈 Data Meets Creativity – With a knack for combining KPIs with compelling narratives, we highlight strategies that don’t just work but resonate. 🤝 Community Building – We celebrate what makes the gaming community special: its people. From indie developers to AAA veterans, every voice matters here. Join us as we explore what drives games, empowers communities, and defines success in the ever-evolving gaming landscape. Your Game. Your Story. Your Community.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to Player Driven, the hub where gaming insights and community collide. We believe that behind every great game is a thriving community and an unforgettable player experience.
Recent episodes include "Is the Anti-Cheat Arms Race Over? Guy Kroupp, GetGud" (28 October 2026, 40 minutes), "Game Publisher or Marketing Agency? Ben Kvalo, Midwest Games" (20 October 2026, 47 minutes), and "The invisible backend behind games that do not fail, with Mitchell Patterson of Wolfjaw Studios" (6 October 2026, 45 minutes).
Player Driven publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 56 minutes.
Booking probability for Player Driven is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Player Driven requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Player Driven's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Player Driven are Software and IT Services & Software Development. Player Driven has a business audience.
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Cheating in multiplayer games is as old as the INI file. What has changed is how it is done, and what a studio can see. In this episode, Greg talks with Guy Kroupp, founder of GetGud, about how cheating evolved from...
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Everyone is calling themselves a publisher. Midwest Games founder Ben Kvalo explains what the word actually covers, why marketing is only part of it, and why nuance still beats the prompt. Ben also talks through two...
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There is a half of every online game that almost nobody thinks about. Matchmaking, inventory, entitlements, and the account services that decide whether you actually get in on launch night. By Mitchell Patterson's own...
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A game takes four to five years to build. A vesting schedule takes four to five years to finish. So the people who greenlit it have been paid and moved on before anyone finds out whether it worked. Colan Neese said that...
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Microsoft is reportedly ending day-one first-party releases on Game Pass and capping cloud gaming hours. Most people read that as a subscription story. On this episode it turns into a much bigger one. Greg Posner is...
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The internet spent the week arguing about which game wins the holiday. We think that is the wrong question, and the right one is which brand still has your attention after the controller goes down. This is the first...
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GTA 6 is already the biggest launch Colan Neese's team has tracked since they started measuring in 2019, and it is on pace to pass Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's peak roughly two months before it ships. Here is the part...
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Make-A-Wish sorts every wish into four kinds: to go, to meet, to be, or to have. Travel is still the biggest category overall, but when a child anywhere in the world asks to have something, the number one request is...
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GTA 6 is leaking all over the internet, Wolverine is getting dragged before anyone has even played it, and D23 may have quietly shown just how serious Disney is getting about games. This week on Player Driven Live, Greg...
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If George Clooney walks into a coffee shop, everyone looks up. If Banksy walks in without the mask, nobody does, and the work outside is worth millions.That's Nathan Lindberg's description of the gaming creator economy...
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Three of the biggest names in games reported inside a single week and the headline numbers pointed three different directions. Nintendo's profit nearly doubled. Roblox missed on revenue while its player count rose...
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Most anti-cheat scans your game. Anybrain watches how you move. Andre Pimenta, CEO and cofounder of Anybrain, joins Player Driven to explain why your mouse and keyboard are a fingerprint, how AI just made cheating easy...
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Mats Steen spent most of his short life indoors in Oslo. To his parents he looked like a young man with no one. When he died, hundreds of people reached out to say they had known him for years, inside World of Warcraft...
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Xbox just laid off thousands, spun off four studios, and cancelled games it had defended a day earlier. Greg Posner and games-industry analyst Colan Neese take apart Microsoft's restructuring memo and land on an...
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Episode description (full): A trade group that speaks for nearly every major game publisher told California lawmakers that running a private or community server is piracy. The catch: you can download a Minecraft server...
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Web games went from the thing you played to kill time in study hall to a platform pulling 100 million monthly active users. So why are so many developers still thinking about it like it's 2008? In this episode, Greg...
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The system that decides whether you have a good night in multiplayer almost never gets explained by the people who actually build it. Today it does. Call of Duty just walked back the biggest matchmaking change in its...
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Zach Letter spent over a decade as a full-time YouTube creator with billions of views before he saw Roblox and recognized the exact platform mechanics he had already mastered: a title, a thumbnail, and an algorithm to...
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Lewis Ward spent sixteen years covering games as an analyst at IDC. Now he runs Design Desk at Player Driven, and his obsession has moved upstream, into the design layer where games are still just ideas. In this episode...
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Bungie's total mindshare has collapsed 86% since 2019, Destiny is winding down to a final mission, and Marathon is on life support. Greg Posner and Colan Neese (SVP Gaming, ASI Screen Engine) work through what happens...
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research psychologist, award-winning author, Games for Change
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global head of startup operations, Always Supporting the Games Community
US government employee / pastor, The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development
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