Frontier Devs Plc Ord (FRRDF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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So welcome to our interim results call. Thanks everyone for making the time to join us this evening, this evening, this morning. If you could stay muted and keep your camera off until we get to questions, that would be appreciated. So I will pass over to Jo to introduce herself and then we'll run through some of the numbers. So over to you Jo. Thank you, Alex. I hope everybody can hear me. Well, welcome everybody. And this is my first time talking to you as CEO. So I thought it'd be good to give you a little bit of background into my experience, both in the games industry, but also at Frontier. So 30 plus, I don't like to say the number, but I started in the games industry working on magazines, which at the time were the only way that people could communicate with players. In fact, developers were still printing code so that people in their bedrooms could play games by typing them in. I've always been player first. In that time, the players used to send in bags of posts in order for us to know what they really think about the games that we were talking about. In the early days, the first games I worked on were IP games, so games like Terminator 2, Robocop, The Simpsons, and actually the first Jurassic Park game, which is a nice full circle for me. But those games, the emphasis was on the IP, and it was only when I moved to Maxis, which was one of the first developers of... of creative sim games or management sims as they were at the time. That's when developer input and understanding what the players wanted and feeding that back into the game to improve on the game became a really essential part of my job, even so far as getting people to create cities and send us in floppy disks so that we can use them to share content. And that's sort of the early stages of my mass...