You're walking down a city street.

You turn a corner and you're swarmed by zombies.

You fight them off with a folding chair.

Explosions rattle the street around you.

You're basically beating up enemies in a dystopian version of New York City.

And there's all this kind of ooze spilling out of this onto the street.

That's Vincent Acovino, all things considered producer who covers video games for the show.

This game is called Beatdown City Survivors, and it'll be released later this year.

So it's like a really old school looking game.

It's all like pixel art that's reminiscent of retro kind of video games and arcade games.

The game might look retro, but it says a lot about this current moment in video game development. The video game

industry is massive, probably way bigger than most people think. It brought in around 187 billion

dollars in revenue last year, which is more than the film and music industries combined.

Much of that money was made by big developers creating big games.

But more and more, small independent studios are disrupting the space.

Studios like New Challenger, which is making Beatdown City survivors.

Some of the biggest hits in the industry are coming from developers that are, you know, a team of one person.

It kind of goes to show the power dynamics right now in the industry where small, independent developers do have the power and potential to make big video games without the risk that comes with making a giant multi-million

dollar project as a big studio.

Consider this.

The video game industry is facing a host of issues.

Massive layoffs, the advent of AI, games that take years to be released, and that

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