The manufactured controversy has grown far bigger than the game itself
Mixtape Takes Place Never – It Takes Place Always
Mixtape isn't about the music; it's about romanticizing life when the music starts to play.
A Generation of Hip-Hop Was Given Away for Free. Can It Be Archived?
They won't be lost to fire, like much of the Universal Music catalog, but who will save the mixtapes?
Rejection, tragedy and billions of dollars - The story of FIFA - MCV/DEVELOP
EA didn't give a shit about FIFA.” - MCV/DEVELOP
Fan PS5 boycott over discs seemingly has little impact in US | VGC
There was “no significant change at all” in player count during PS5 boycott…
Opinion | Video Games Are Destroying the People Who Make Them (Published 2017)
The industry’s infamous “crunch” culture is taking a serious toll on workers.
500+ Billion Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile A First-Person Shooter
During the last 3 months, I spent some of my time and tokens decompiling a popular first-person shooter. The goal was not to reach a simple proof-of-concept state. Instead, we really wanted an accurate, stable and feature-complete recreation of the game. The avid reader of my blog might have noticed that I had previously written two posts that have since been removed. Everyone else might now be wondering which game I am talking about. To both of you I can only say that corporate America was here to ruin our fun.
The China Cultural Clash
The NBA controversy in China highlights a culture clash that both tech companies and the U.S. government need to take to heart. Plus, why Tiktok being Chinese is increasingly a problem.
The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed
A year-long investigation by an indie journalist is a call to action
Crooner in Rights Spat
Why have copyright protections grown and grown? Louis Menand on what the intellectual-property battles really mean.
Inside Nintendo's secretive creative process
Nintendo’s ‘conductor’ takes us behind the game giant’s inner workings, how it finds talent and the philosophy that sparks its eccentric ideas
We Need To Stop Calling Entertainers ‘Artists’
Expert in building reliable digital platforms and leading high-impact technical teams. 20+ years experience at the intersection of technology, teams, and learning.
Cakewalk
Fueled by over 30 years in the relentless pursuit of innovation, we build the most intuitive, next-generation music production tools that empower all creators to push creative boundaries.
Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property
Andrew Ross, Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property, American Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 3, Rewiring the "Nation": The Place of Technology in American Studies (Sep., 2006), pp. 743-766
This Gamescom Showcase Did A Lot Of Games Dirty
Sorry to anyone who wasn’t Square Enix or CD Projekt Red
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
Marc Andreessen – Why Software Is Eating The World
2011 Big Tunechi op-ed from the WSJ. Horowitz: Thank you for everything you’ve done to make RapGenius happen–I write about why it’s one of the internet’s foundational sources of
