The topic every game dev is talking about behind closed doors : The cost of doing business
Content warning : I’ve embedded some tweets to various developers that show the sorts of comments that they receive every day. There’s some…
"Did We Create This Monster?" How Twitter Turned Toxic - Fast Company
For years, the company’s zeal for free speech blinded it to safety concerns. Now it’s scrambling to make up for lost time.
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
Remember what happened with the Tower of Babel? Same type of deal.
Introducing The Pentaract: A Comprehensive Set of Video Game Lexicons for ATProto
Some of you already know that I’ve been working on-and-off on a lexicon for video games. I figured it would be a good idea to put the lexicon up for further discussion, and to make sure I’m headed down the right path with things. But why? Last year, the video games industry experienced a significant upheaval when radical groups leveraged moral panic to pressure payment processors, which in turn pressured games platforms to remove NSFW applications. This resulted in a lot of underrepresented dev...
Your Angry Tweets Aren't Helping
Spend any time on Twitter and you'll quickly conclude that everyone is outraged about everything. It's time we put that energy to use in the real world.
A lexicon for game activity sharing
I think that discussion landed on atmosphere.games, no? I think it’d be cool to get this lexicon out there soon.
In South Korea, Gamers Stage An Inquisition Against Feminists - Kotaku
On March 26, a top game development studio in Korea released an unusual statement about one of its employees: “The woman was mistaken in retweeting a
Opinion | Twitter Has an Old Media Problem. Here’s a Solution. (Published 2016)
The company has become an indispensable news source for millions but as a business, it needs a white knight to swoop in.
Twitter Engineer Fired On Twitter Calls Musk’s Team ‘A Bunch Of Cowards’
The Android developer frets over Twitter’s near-future: “No one trusts anyone within the company anymore.”
The Search For The Apolitical Video Game
How Twitter’s CEO Plans to Fix the Company | Fortune
How the media-juggernaut-turned-train-wreck is getting back on track after a rough two years.
Richard Garriott on the state of the games industry: 'The bells and whistles are no longer what's important'
"Pre-EA, we never cancelled a project."
Richard Garriott on the state of the games industry: 'The bells and whistles are no longer what's important'
"Pre-EA, we never cancelled a project."
» The Last Days of Zork The Digital Antiquarian
If you follow the latest developments in modern gaming even casually, as I do, you know that Microsoft and Activision Blizzard recently concluded the most eye-watering transaction ever to take place in the industry: the former acquired the latter for a price higher than the gross national product of more than half of the world’s countries. I find it endlessly amusing to consider that Activision may have lived long enough to set that record only thanks to Infocom, that humble little maker of 1980s text adventures, whose annual revenues — revenues, mind you, not profits — never exceeded $10 million before Activision acquired it in 1986. And just how did this David save a Goliath? It happened like this:
So the people launching a new Twitter under the name Twitter launched their thing so I signed up. Turns out they have an AI scanning tweets for "truth" and it currently has no idea what it's doing. Posted something innocuous about Star Wars Zero Company and it essentially blocked it from all feeds.
So the people launching a new Twitter under the name Twitter launched their thing so I signed up. Turns out they have an AI scanning tweets for "truth" and it currently has no idea what it's doing. Posted something innocuous about Star Wars Zero Company and it essentially blocked it from all feeds.
