# thebotwire.com Games Industry Trade News

> thebotwire.com Games Industry Trade News is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Returns curated games industry trade news covering studio funding, layoffs, platform policy, and mobile UA economics from sources like GameSpot and IGN, plus business-focused outlets.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/gamesindustry/latest
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-com-games-industry-trade-news-f3d10ed8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_30U6IZcSAJuOM88gP8zbY

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability thebotwire-com-games-industry-trade-news-f3d10ed8
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest games industry trade news — studio funding rounds, layoffs, and platform policy changes — from the past 24 hours, up to 20 results.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need games industry-specific trade news — especially studio funding, layoffs, platform policy, or mobile UA economics — rather than general gaming consumer news. It is more business/BD-oriented than a consumer gaming news feed, making it ideal for VC scouts, game studio BD agents, and market intelligence workflows. Prefer it over the sibling general gaming endpoint (GameSpot/IGN consumer releases) when the use case is industry business intelligence rather than game release coverage.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for narrow query or freshness window — returns empty list
- Invalid 'since' format string returns error or unexpected results
- Limit value out of range (must be 1-50) returns validation error
- Source filter 'src' accepts only value '80', other values may return error or no results
- Network or upstream feed outage may return stale or empty data

## How this service works

Games industry trade , studio funding, layoffs, platform policy, mobile UA economics. Game-studio business-development agents, games-focused VC scouts, and consumer gaming apps and Discord bots

## Output

A list of curated news items from games industry trade sources, each including headline, summary, source, and publication timestamp. Results are filtered by optional search terms, source ID, result count limit, and freshness window.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-com-games-industry-trade-news-f3d10ed8/health.json
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