# People Make Games: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-29, People Make Games has 579,000 subscribers, 42,460,475 total views, and 63 videos. It ranks #131,502 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [People Make Games](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for People Make Games is “Bobby Kotick vs. The Games Media”, a long-form video published Sep 24, 2026.
- These are People Make Games’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Aug 29, 2019 and Sep 24, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 381,325. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.” (7,934,777 views, Dec 13, 2021). Least viewed: “The Gameshows To Get You Through Self-Isolation” (49,160 views, Apr 9, 2020).
- Median length: 22:19 for 48 long-form videos.
- In this sample, People Make Games’s consecutive uploads were a median of 49 days apart (shortest gap 13 days, longest 153 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 30, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Bobby Kotick vs. The Games Media](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/kKwpp-Bn8jI/) | 2026-09-24 | Long-form | 242,534 | 47:41 | 0.85x |
| [If Rockstar Meant to Kill This Union, It Didn't Work](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/ym4zN4i1aT8/) | 2026-07-23 | Long-form | 125,672 | 33:01 | - |
| [He Won’t Stop Building a Map to an Imaginary Place](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/Is8N7B9b0GQ/) | 2026-06-15 | Long-form | 946,294 | 47:05 | 2.78x |
| [Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/dnuipPQDd_w/) | 2026-01-13 | Long-form | 235,239 | 39:47 | 0.69x |
| [Why We're Boycotting Xbox](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/Ybj10537yi4/) | 2025-12-18 | Long-form | 177,796 | 39:39 | - |
| [The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 31 Union Members](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/8TvWNFBBwuY/) | 2025-11-24 | Long-form | 245,254 | 16:21 | 0.68x |
| [The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/c9nOwjeznjI/) | 2025-11-11 | Long-form | 398,387 | 19:18 | 1.11x |
| [The Disco Elysium Saga Isn't Done Yet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/lZEAs6M1wts/) | 2025-08-15 | Long-form | 352,714 | 1:56:58 | 1x |
| [I Captained a £4,000,000 Starship Filled with Actors](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/UROMioNwoXs/) | 2025-05-08 | Long-form | 326,977 | 43:21 | 0.91x |
| [100 Slaps: The Breaking News The Games Industry Ignored in 2024](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/RR9HQ2C6h_4/) | 2025-01-07 | Long-form | 356,132 | 50:37 | 0.86x |
| [The Games Behind Your Government's Next War](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/lYaDXZ2MI-k/) | 2024-09-05 | Long-form | 463,854 | 1:12:31 | 0.84x |
| [PMG Responds to the Games Industry Layoffs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/ld2xvbPpqcw/) | 2024-07-02 | Long-form | 111,017 | 17:08 | - |
| [Inside the Peculiar World of Farming Simulator eSports](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/MM6Deexy3to/) | 2024-05-23 | Long-form | 709,661 | 33:18 | 1.33x |
| [The Murder Game Revolution That Has Gripped China](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/6_dlxbGUNNQ/) | 2024-01-25 | Long-form | 364,262 | 32:30 | 0.92x |
| [We Roleplayed the End of the World with 4000 Other People](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/bW6EYmRX7wk/) | 2023-11-21 | Long-form | 2,142,994 | 38:47 | 4.58x |
| [The Games Industry Must Not Stay Silent on Palestine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/pDB_wYdn5f4/) | 2023-11-06 | Long-form | 126,998 | 38:56 | - |
| [People Make Games Only Exists Because of YOU!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/zLERmE-Bqrw/) | 2023-08-10 | Long-form | 75,892 | 7:49 | - |
| [Investigation: Who’s Telling the Truth about Disco Elysium?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/JGIGA8taN-M/) | 2023-05-29 | Long-form | 965,078 | 2:30:00 | 1.85x |
| [We Entered the World of Microsoft Excel eSports & Got Our Asses Beat](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/N2QC6VQXo8U/) | 2023-03-15 | Long-form | 1,828,106 | 25:30 | 3.58x |
| [What's It Really like Working at Valve?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/s9aCwCKgkLo/) | 2023-01-25 | Long-form | 642,956 | 47:42 | 1.37x |
| [How Valve is Profiting from Steam's Back-Door Casinos](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/eMmNy11Mn7g/) | 2022-11-07 | Long-form | 424,979 | 36:24 | 1x |
| [Video Games Are Failing the Working Class](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/Xz6NyOaP5xg/) | 2022-08-18 | Long-form | 201,206 | 18:28 | - |
| [The Video Game Developers Resisting Russia's Invasion](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/URT1oLizd-I/) | 2022-06-16 | Long-form | 112,181 | 21:55 | - |
| [Making Sense of VRChat, the "Metaverse" People Actually Like](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/4PHT-zBxKQQ/) | 2022-05-17 | Long-form | 510,491 | 37:36 | - |
| [Investigating Three Indie Superstars Accused of Emotional Abuse](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/xDPzZkx0cPs/) | 2022-03-18 | Long-form | 533,732 | 40:54 | - |
| [Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/vTMF6xEiAaY/) | 2021-12-13 | Long-form | 7,934,777 | 35:22 | - |
| [The Inside Story of Mass Effect 3's Endings, Finally Told](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/nhtgjmkcht8/) | 2021-10-21 | Long-form | 233,972 | 28:25 | - |
| [Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/_gXlauRB1EQ/) | 2021-08-19 | Long-form | 2,669,425 | 22:44 | - |
| [The Game Prototype That Had to Be Banned by Its Own Studio](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/aOYbR-Q_4Hs/) | 2021-07-20 | Long-form | 1,585,278 | 16:06 | - |
| [Comic Artists Are Waging a War, and We Joined the Frontlines](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/8Jm8URxXFF0/) | 2021-06-02 | Long-form | 1,205,693 | 12:09 | - |
| [Ubisoft's Blockchain Experiments Are Bad for the Planet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/bt2kHeqd7AI/) | 2021-05-13 | Long-form | 125,500 | 15:59 | - |
| [How Game Publishers Buy Crunch Overseas](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/bm7KUE1Kwts/) | 2021-03-04 | Long-form | 234,656 | 18:55 | - |
| [Behind-the-scenes at a World Class Escape Room](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/CLRndx9cJfI/) | 2021-02-04 | Long-form | 179,473 | 13:06 | - |
| [The System Behind Hades' Astounding Dialogue](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/bwdYL0KFA_U/) | 2020-11-19 | Long-form | 1,241,300 | 12:28 | - |
| [What Is "Blaseball" And Why Is It Taking over the Internet?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/Y5t8DwnDE1k/) | 2020-10-14 | Long-form | 484,229 | 17:25 | - |
| [Why Subnautica Owes Its Success to This Button](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/zVnOcmiEdIE/) | 2020-09-10 | Long-form | 880,290 | 15:44 | - |
| [Can You Really Get Rich in the World's Only "Cash-Based" MMO?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/OTPLp5u3iSU/) | 2020-08-13 | Long-form | 1,824,144 | 25:21 | - |
| [Why Have These People Been Playing Cookie Clicker for SEVEN YEARS?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/aFl99Wieknw/) | 2020-06-25 | Long-form | 1,417,174 | 13:57 | - |
| [Inside Second Life's Most Expensive Brothel](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/oR94zlsHFdc/) | 2020-05-26 | Long-form | 240,087 | 20:00 | - |
| [Kirby's Forgotten Connection to the Civil Rights Movement](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/-bPOZ0HuKmE/) | 2020-04-23 | Long-form | 118,132 | 12:52 | - |
| [The Gameshows To Get You Through Self-Isolation](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/u5XXM9Xk5ks/) | 2020-04-09 | Long-form | 49,160 | 14:52 | - |
| [This Game is Helping Me Cope Right Now](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/tZHrdJoIXMM/) | 2020-03-27 | Long-form | 94,365 | 9:48 | - |
| [It's Time You Knew About Kabaddi: The Ancient Game That's Gone Pro](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/av1mr3UpdZk/) | 2020-03-12 | Long-form | 1,602,547 | 14:13 | - |
| [The Game That Inspired Minecraft, But Never Made a Penny](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/__Nq2vNcpIo/) | 2020-02-27 | Long-form | 439,813 | 13:01 | - |
| [We Visit the Hearthstone Pro Silenced by Blizzard](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/GZa8jatvq78/) | 2020-01-23 | Long-form | 151,044 | 15:28 | - |
| [What Happens When You Try to Recycle a Video Game?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/ABAtHAUrNnk/) | 2019-11-28 | Long-form | 61,872 | 14:44 | - |
| [Investigating Athene, the Youtuber Who Started a Religion](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/EgNXJQ88lfk/) | 2019-10-07 | Long-form | 1,392,242 | 1:31:31 | - |
| [Why the Sound of a Gun Had to Be Nerfed in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@peoplemakegames/videos/RDxiuHdR_T4/) | 2019-08-29 | Long-form | 910,177 | 12:19 | - |

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