The video game industry is at a crossroads

By Noah Caldwell,

Scott Detrow, Vincent Acovino

Published April 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM EDT

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Vincent Acovino talks about the state of the gaming industry and his recent reporting on the annual Game Developers Conference, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

Noah Caldwell

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Scott Detrow

Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

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Vincent Acovino

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