EA didn't give a shit about FIFA.” - MCV/DEVELOP
How Video Games Are Changing the Way Soccer Is Played (Published 2016)
Games like FIFA that were designed to reflect the sport’s reality have helped alter it, influencing professional players and front offices.
‘String of blunders’ at the Asian Games is drawing growing criticism in Japan…Is the cause ‘ditching big corporations’?
From the ‘Toyotomi Hideyoshi’ controversy to inadequate lodging and meals, misdirected buses, and even the North Korean anthem played instead of the South Korean national anthem. Issues around the ...
Valve’s quest to take e-sports mainstream
The ‘Dota 2’ version of the World Cup is bringing pro gaming to the fore
How a comedy of errors ‘ruined everything’ for athletes at the Asian Games
Athletes transported to the wrong venues, three matches in 18 hours and an accommodation crisis add to organisers' woes.
The Player and the Played
In an age when capitalism feels like an unwinnable game, extreme reactionary ideas and politics are on the rise. The Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, Squid Gam...
All This Over… Mixtape?
The manufactured controversy has grown far bigger than the game itself
The causes of Olympic stadium cost overruns from 2000 to 2020
The Olympic Games have frequently witnessed cost overruns. Olympic stadiums have drawn significant media attention due to their escalating costs, but lack of systematic documentation. This study ai...
The causes of Olympic stadium cost overruns from 2000 to 2020
The Olympic Games have frequently witnessed cost overruns. Olympic stadiums have drawn significant media attention due to their escalating costs, but lack of systematic documentation. This study ai...
Athletes 'can't take it any more' as Asian Games issues mount
The Asian Games in Japan were facing more accusations of poor organisation Friday with a world champion gymnast "totally exhausted", the public drafted in to rescue stranded athletes and South Korea…
Fifa World Cup: Uefa to boycott tournament if Gianni Infantino's investment plans go through
Uefa says "the World Cup is not for sale" after its 55 member associations vote to boycott future tournaments if Fifa and its president, Gianni Infantino, do not back down on their investment proposals.
Integrating Narrative into Game Design: A Portal Post-Mortem
How Fanatics cornered the sports collectibles market
As FIFA's exclusive collectibles licensee, Fanatics is set to tap a rapidly growing market in the world's largest sport, but longstanding criticisms follow.
As Epic goes all in on AI game development, maybe it’ll be the kids who ultimately decide the fate of the games industry | Respec
How the young audience reacts to the upcoming Star Wars x Marvel shooter and Fortnite may well dictate AI’s future in game dev.
Ready, Set, Wait: Why Asian Games 2026 is Making the Wrong Headlines
Missing accreditation records, disputed room allocations, airport delays and an anthem blunder have overshadowed the opening of Aichi-Nagoya. The complaints extend beyond India, and the international media has been reporting them
A Different Approach To VC - AVC
I wrote this to my partner the other day. I’m not going to provide the context. It doesn’t matter. It could have been about almost anything in the startup sector right now. “the biggest thing that is wrong with the startup sector right now is entrepreneurs and their teams are too focused on valuation and […]
Exploitative Game Design: Beyond the F2P Debate
The past few months have seen a torrent of articles about Free-to-Play business models, often discussed alongside issues of ethics in games (for example: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). These pieces have addressed the effect on addiction-prone players or children, the possibility of corrupting artistic intent, the sheer amount of money being spent, and other advantages and dangers of F2P. While all of this is relevant, I fear that we’re focusing too much on F2P and glossing over the wider ethical issues in game design.