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By Takashi Mochizuki and Vlad Savov

May 18, 2026 at 11:02 AM UTC

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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Takashi Mochizuki and Vlad Savov investigate the trouble with games as an industry at a time of extreme popularity for games as a pastime.

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