Could a dating app for games help smaller developers?

One of the experts involved in Ludocene is veteran US games journalist Brian Crecente. He set up gaming websites Kotaku and Polygon, led video games coverage at Rolling Stone and Variety, and now runs a consultancy business. He says there's currently "a perfect storm for not knowing what to play" thanks to the reliance on search engine optimisation (SEO) and automatic algorithms. "There's just so much stuff," he says. It's very hard to discover what it is you might like and you might miss out on some hidden gems." A lot has been written about layoffs and studio closures in the video games industry, but Brian points out that many websites and magazines dedicated to it have also closed.