Roblox has had a busy stretch. A new payments product, continued growth overseas, a noticeably different investor base, and an announcement that could change what “Roblox” means as a platform. Here is what each one means for the people actually building on top of it. Roblox Wallet: A Payments Product...

Today’s content creators can choose from myriad platforms to build their careers on. For short-form vertical content, creators have found audiences through TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, while for livestreaming, creators can choose between or multi-stream on Twitch, Kick and Rumble. But for long-form content, YouTube remains the primary platform, and...

My favorite board game, Agricola, has been turned into a mobile game app twice. The first time, Lookout Games had rights in the board game and, presumably, entered into a license agreement with Playdek to develop the mobile app. The result was an excellent adaptation of the board game with...

Many creator payment disputes begin the day the contract is signed. By the time payment becomes an issue, the work has already been completed, the campaign has gone live and leverage has largely disappeared. Many of those disputes could have been avoided if the payment provisions had received the same...

An indemnification clause is a provision in an agreement that shifts risk from one party to another. In a game development agreement, it often appears near the end of the document and receives less attention than payment terms or ownership rights because it looks like legal jargon. But when a...

On August 12, Twitch shifted the default settings on every channel so that a broad range of content (including live streams, VODs, clips, highlights, and the text and images on a channel) can be used to train Amazon’s generative AI models unless a creator opts out. The shift has drawn...