Another year has passed and now is the time to look back and take stock of the year that was. For Critical Distance that means crafting our mega roundup, with links curated from all the year’s week…
Another year: 2025
For the last ten years on Christmas Day I've written a retrospective on the past year. This year's is a public post.
2025: The year in LLMs
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
2025: The year in LLMs
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
Latest open artifacts (#17): NVIDIA, Arcee, Minimax, DeepSeek, Z.ai and others close an eventful year on a high note
Ending the year with a bang.
A Year in Review: Phaser in 2018 and beyond
Welcome to the annual Phaser round-up, covering all the stats and milestones achieved during 2018. If you'd like some context, you can read the 2016 and 2017 entries first. I'll be comparing stats with those from 2017 to see how things have changed.
The Best Video Games of 2018
This was hardly a vintage year for video games, but there were releases that nevertheless excited, stimulated, and challenged their audiences to think for themselves.
Be A Property Owner And Not A Renter On The Internet
The year is 2025. The internet in the shape that we've known it in the early 2000s is no longer there. Or, not quite in the shape that we've seen it before. This is not just plain nostalgia talking - the vibrant ecosystem of blogs, feeds, personal sites, and forums has been usurped by a few mega-concentrated players.
The best memes of 2018, according to The Verge staff
Is this... another year-end list?
3 Disruptive Game Design Trends to Look Forward to in 2020
There’s always innovation happening in the game industry, and disruptions can happen anytime. Here are 3 game design trends for…
New Year’s Message: Moving Fast And Breaking Things Is The Opposite Of Tech Optimism
Every year since 2008, my final post of the year for Techdirt is about optimism. This makes this year’s post (which will be the only post for today — go out and enjoy the holiday times, people) my …
Gap Week: March 20, 2026
Hey folks! I was traveling this week to give an invited talk at Western Michigan University, so I don’t have a blog post ready for you. That’ll also probably be the case for next week (…
Gap Week: March 20, 2026
Hey folks! I was traveling this week to give an invited talk at Western Michigan University, so I don’t have a blog post ready for you. That’ll also probably be the case for next week (…
The Video Game Industry Can't Go On Like This - Kotaku
At about this time next year, we’ll have a pretty good idea of what the next generation of video games will look like. New consoles will likely be shown
2023 Gems of the year winners
It has been nearly four years since the first line of code of Obsidian was written on January 31st, 2020. Today we're thrilled to announce the winners of our fo...
Monument Valley in Numbers: Year 2
In January of 2015 we made the decision to be transparent with how Monument Valley has performed since its release. We made an infographic…
