# Lewis Ward

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REDBLACKS Radio Show - June 3, 2025

AJ Jakubec is joined by TSN's Farhan Lalji to preview the CFL season. Then he and Matt Kaunisviita take a look at what the REDBLACKS' roster looks like for Thursday's season opener in Regina. AJ wraps up the show by replaying The Drive's interview with Lewis Ward, who is set to play in his 100th ca…

The Economics of Gaming: How One Player Broke an MMO and Launched a Career

Guest: Andrew Wagner, Author of Economics of Online Gaming and Founder of Wagner Road CapitalCoHost: Lewis Ward, Research Director @ IDC 🎙 Episode SummaryWhat happens when a high schooler treats an MMORPG like a business case study? Andrew Wagner joins Player Driven to share how his time playing Et…

The Rules We Break: Eric Zimmerman on Game Design, Loops, and Culture

Episode Overview What does it really mean to design a game — and what can that teach us about culture, creativity, and even our daily lives? In this episode, Greg is joined by Lewis Ward and Eric Zimmerman, legendary game designer, professor at NYU’s Game Center, and author of The Rules We Break. E…

You’re Not Designing Games… You’re Designing Behavior

This week’s episode takes a different angle. What started as a conversation about Epic, Disney, and the state of the market quickly turned into something bigger… a discussion about systems. From live service games to theme parks to parenting, the same core question shows up everywhere: What behavio…

CFL Draft Preview

John Hodge of 3 Down Nation joins Travis Currah and Sheldon Jones to preview the 2026 CFL Draft.   00:00 - Open 02:46 - Saskatchewan Roughriders release Ajou Ajou 05:58 - Ottawa RedBlacks release Lewis Ward and sign Brett Lauther 10:19 - Adam Bighill retires as a Winnipeg Blue Bomber 12:29 - …

Why Most Games Fail in the Gap Between the Idea and the Build

Lewis Ward spent sixteen years covering games as an analyst at IDC. Now he runs Design Desk at Player Driven, and his obsession has moved upstream, into the design layer where games are still just ideas. In this episode he and Greg get into the part of game-making most teams skip: the psychology un…

Inside Call of Duty's Matchmaking, From the Engineer Who Built It with Charlie Olson

The system that decides whether you have a good night in multiplayer almostnever gets explained by the people who actually build it. Today it does.Call of Duty just walked back the biggest matchmaking change in its history.Activision recently published internal white papers explaining parts of howt…

Why Tencent Is Paying for Better Gamers

Lewis Ward and Greg Posner open Games for Change 2026 with three interviewson the calendar, a Player Driven happy hour that night, and no idea yet howany of it goes.A new Raising Good Gamers white paper lands at the show this week: a meta-analysis of roughly 200,000 studies on what parents actually…

Games Can Be Positive in Ways You Can't See | Games for Change 2026

Mats Steen spent most of his short life indoors in Oslo. To his parents he looked like a young man with no one. When he died, hundreds of people reached out to say they had known him for years, inside World of Warcraft, as a character named Ibelin. His parents had no idea. That story sits at the ce…

The Preview 26/27: York City (A)

Episode 1025: It's a big away trip as Swindon prepare to travel to York for the first time in a decade, and a new tick off for the groundhoppers and history buffs. Lewis Ward is in the dugout for the women's side, and Ian Holloway is in the charity furniture shops of Wiltshire and Bristol. With a v…