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GPT: Like Crocodile Tears in Rain

What if we changed the system and made AI useful and welcome for everybody?

Richard Carrillo

“Interviewing for Game Design” Revisited

Occasionally, the fault lies not in what is said, but in the lens through which it is considered.

The God of Dung Fire

Stock AI Generator Is Not Just Bad But Wants Your Money Faster Than You Can Count to Five

For AI-generated images, don’t follow that guy with the candy bar into their van.

The Future Starts Here

What Unity’s CEO John Riccitiello Thinks About You

Behold the beauty of Unity’s giant strawman!

Unity & ironSource

After the C-Suite, Unity’s Business Model Is Showing Its True Colors Too

The bright future of mobile games that Unity is banking on.

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Unity’s C-Suite Is Showing Its True Face

Heartbreaking.

The God of Blazing Dung Fires

The God of Blazing Dung Fires: Monetizing Undesirable Player Behavior

Blizzard sounding out how much more profit you can make from blazing dung fires than from enjoyable playing experiences.

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Embracer’s Building a Kind of Library of Congress for Physical Games

Imagine all the paintings in the Louvre were hidden inside boxes and you could only read their descriptions.

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Valve Loses Bid to End Antitrust Case Over Steam

No offense, but it’s high time Steam got its ass kicked.

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Square Enix Dumps Western Game Studios and IPs

Selling off some of your jewels in a fire sale to invest in cryptoshit seems totally reasonable.

Holy Metrics!

The Paradise Game

Game metrics made in heaven, courtesy SMBC.

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Indie Game Developer Funomena Is Shutting Down

Terrible news chasing terrible news.

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Buy Me, I’m Toxic

Being open to buy-outs is now the fashionable thing to do if you’re a toxic publisher.

America’s Army

America’s Army Calling It Quits After 20 Years

Haven’t played it for years, but it sure feels like the end of an era.

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Managerial Lego

Turns out, I was still way too generous regarding Ken Levine’s 2014 GDC talk.

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GAN Theft Auto: Playing Within a Neural Network

You’ve seen AI play within an environmnt, but here the AI is the environment.

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Boss Exam!, or: Grading in Games

“Tests” in well-designed games not only test the player exclusively on what the game has taught them, but push their proficiency even further.

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The Other Thing on the Doorstep: Games and the Classroom

If games and new technologies can’t be integrated into the classroom, then we should start building our own multilearner online game-based learning classroom today.

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The Thing on the Doorstep: Technology and the Classroom

To become a true knowledge society, learning and teaching must become a shared quest of lifelong exploration.

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“#GamerGate Isn’t Over But” Addendum

“I got into the game industry to make games. And it’s time for me to get back to it.” —@spacekatgal