Jordan Middler
Jordan Middler tracks how big-name games are made and marketed, with a particular eye on the studios, licences and production deals behind major franchises. He writes for Video Games Chronicle on the technology of games in practice: who is building what, how established developers move between projects, and what that means for players following long-running series.
Franchise reporting with an eye on who makes what
Middler’s coverage centres on console and PC games built on recognisable entertainment brands and long-running game series. In his piece on Rocksteady’s credit as co-developer on a new Lego Batman game, he explains how a studio best known for the Arkham series is attached to a licensed project, clarifying the relationships between publisher, licence holder and development teams. He returns to this kind of story structure across his work, using news pegs such as a new instalment, a reveal or a credit listing to set out which studios are involved and how that fits into the broader life of a franchise.
Within that frame, he treats technology as part of the story of a series rather than an abstract spec sheet. Platform choices, engine details, and shifts in genre or scope are presented in terms of what they do to a known property and its audience expectations. This makes his coverage useful when a brand moves to a new publisher, a new format or a different studio, because he foregrounds continuity and change around the core franchise.
Attention to developers, credits and production deals
One of the consistent threads in Middler’s writing is his focus on who is actually making a game. The Rocksteady and Lego Batman story is built around the studio’s presence in the credits rather than a trailer alone, and he uses that to explain how co-development and support roles work on a modern blockbuster. Similar pieces pick out changes in developer line-ups, support studios being added to a project, or new internal teams being spun up inside existing companies.
He is specific about naming studios and clarifying their roles, distinguishing main developers from co-developers, support teams and technology partners. The tone stays factual and restrained, keeping marketing language at arm’s length while highlighting concrete details such as credit lines, job listings, or formal announcements. For communications work that hinges on studio recognition or on clarifying who is responsible for a project, this attention to credits and production structure is central.
Short-form news, announcements and industry updates
Middler primarily works in short- to medium-length news pieces rather than long essays. His recent archive at Video Games Chronicle is dominated by straight reporting on game announcements, updates, delays and corporate moves, each built around a clear central development and the key context a regular games reader needs. Headlines tend to be tightly written and descriptive, signalling the main news angle without opinion or flourish.
Within that format, he frequently draws on official materials — trailers, press releases, credit listings, ratings board entries and financial calls — and then adds the framing detail that situates a story in a series timeline or a company’s broader strategy. He keeps quotes and commentary lean, favouring clear summaries over personality-driven takes, which makes his pieces easy to excerpt when someone needs a clean statement of record on a title, a studio or a deal.
Coverage of releases and hands-on impressions
Alongside news, Middler contributes reviews and impressions of new releases. These pieces follow the same plain, structural approach as his news coverage: emphasis on how a game plays, how it builds on or diverges from earlier entries, and what its technical performance means in practice. He connects those judgments back to the series and studio history he covers in his reporting, giving readers a through-line from announcement and development to the finished product.
Across formats, the distinguishing feature of his work is consistency: clear, minimally embellished prose anchored in concrete production facts, with a repeating focus on the connection between well-known IP, the developers behind it and the technology that makes it work.
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