Guy I know that made a very successful, major award winning, game is trying to get funding for a new one at the moment and all the investors are basically saying sorry we don’t do games anymore, we’re all in on defence contractors.

February 20, 2026 - 01:28 UTC

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Yeah much like film producers, they don't actually know what a game (or film) is.
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Look, everyone knows that the safest investment strategy is hyper concentration in a single sector that is currently flooded with multiple firms that are likely to fail because everyone is doing the same thing.
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Maybe they should make simulators for the military then.
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Military contractors are actively headhunting from the games industry, offering crazy salaries, particularly because drones mean the difference between games and genuine murder machines is basically zero now.
But for some reason not everyone wants to make their money killing people.
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