Indie Dev "Silenced" By BAFTA Decision To Pull Trailer; Hack Reveals GTA Online Makes Over $1 Million A Day

About this episode

Jessica McDonell discusses the controversy surrounding an indie dev's trailer being pulled from the BAFTAs and the revenue generated by GTA Online.

IT'S BEEN A WHILE! dont worry im back and i bring you the one-two jessica special: a very complicated 'lets talk about it' story about an indie dev's trailer being cut from the BAFTAs due to its subject matter AND the new thing that happened with GTA. because of course.

People in this episode

Host: Jessica McDonell

Topics covered

• indie game development
• BAFTA controversy
• GTA Online revenue
• video game industry
• trailer censorship

Keywords

• indie dev
• BAFTA
• GTA Online
• trailer
• video games
• censorship
• revenue

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BAFTA

Products: GTA Online

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