The New Guys

Confidential pre-release consulting for games

Narrative risk intelligence for the game industry.

We help publishers, studios, and investors identify audience-reception, creator-market, narrative, and marketing risks before they become public controversies or commercial failures.

TNG Risk Index // Project profileNightglass
Illustrative data

Narrative RPG • Late alpha • Sample assessment

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Overall indexElevatedOut of 100
APFAudience Promise Fit68High
PFIPlayer-Fantasy Integrity74High
FCFranchise Continuity42Elevated
MDMessage Density63High
CACharacter Appeal49Elevated
RERepresentation Execution56Elevated
CMVCreator-Market Vulnerability61High
MCRMarketing Copy Risk70High
RFRevision Feasibility35Guarded

Services

Built for the decisions that happen before the public sees the game.

Each engagement is designed to convert subjective creative concerns into commercially useful guidance.

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Full Narrative & Market-Fit Audit

A deeper review of story, characters, dialogue, worldbuilding, quests, marketing language, and audience promise.

  • Comparable-title analysis
  • Franchise continuity assessment
  • Creator-market vulnerability map
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Executive Outside-Voice Briefing

A publisher-ready deck that frames creative concerns as commercial risk, helping leaders align with teams without making the issue personal.

  • Board-style risk memo
  • Downside scenarios
  • Studio conversation support
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Investor Diligence Review

A commercially grounded audience-risk assessment for investment, acquisition, publishing, or licensing decisions.

  • Title and portfolio risk
  • Studio and market positioning
  • Audience and franchise exposure

News

News from The New Guys.

Company announcements, press releases, and updates.

Coverage • GamesBeat

The New Guys will help game studios identify and reduce audience risks before launch

GamesBeat profiles The New Guys, our pre-release audience-risk model, and how publishers can surface narrative, marketing, and creator-market vulnerabilities before launch.

“identify avoidable creative and commercial risks before games are revealed, marketed, or released”

Dean Takahashi, GamesBeat
Press Release • gamescom 2026

The New Guys to Attend gamescom 2026 in Cologne

Narrative-risk consultancy will meet with publishers, studios, investors, and industry partners about identifying audience-reception risk before key pre-release decisions.

Press Release • PDF

The New Guys Launches to Help Game Publishers Identify Audience-Reception Risk Before Launch

New advisory firm offers confidential narrative, character, marketing, and community-risk reviews for publishers, studios, and global game companies.

Private briefing

Need an outside read before reveal, beta, or content lock?

Send a confidential note and we will respond with a recommended engagement path: rapid screen, full audit, executive briefing, or investor diligence review.

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