







People make games, a fact that Asha Sharma and the ghouls running Xbox sure seem to want you to forget
Before you place all the blame on Sony, former Destiny 2 CM says Bungie was 'very close to shutting its doors' before the buyout
"It was an emergency acquisition."

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 Gentrification of Video Game History
We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas

I Won't Play Kojima's New Game Because of the Xbox & Microsoft Boycott
With Xbox as the new game publisher for Kojima's Physint, I won't be playing it due to the Microsoft boycott over the Gaza genocide.
Xbox transfers Rare and Halo franchise to Activision, proposes closure of Ninja Theory, and confirms another 268 roles cut amid studio restructure
Major staff cuts at former 343 Industries and other teams; consultation begins at Ninja Theory; Obsidian transferred to Bethesda, buyer found for Undead Labs

Bungie confirms it’s ending Destiny 2 updates to focus on new games | VGC
The end of Destiny updates follows declining player numbers…

'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam
'You work six years on a game, you line up press and events for the launch, and then some guy at Valve clicks on a checkbox and blocks everything.'

Despite Awards, South Of Midnight Studio Becomes Latest Victim Of Microsoft’s Implosion
Compulsion Games could be on the chopping block, months after Xbox hyped up its award wins

Lone game dev builds an explorable cyberpunk city almost entirely out of ASCII characters
Dot dot dot matrix.

Devs aren't "lazy" and game updates aren't guaranteed | Opinion
Where did the demand that every game must be continually updated come from – and is there a way to avoid the friction it causes?

Games Done Quick's Long, Difficult Journey To A Better Gaming Future
Progress isn't linear, and there are no skips or shortcuts

20 years ago, Dead Rising showed a different path for open worlds, and more games should pinch its ideas
Dead Rising showed developers there were different ways of doing open worlds. 20 years since its release, we go back and explore what we could of had.

This Gamescom Showcase Did A Lot Of Games Dirty
Sorry to anyone who wasn’t Square Enix or CD Projekt Red

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.
Sure Seems Like Xbox Is Cooked
"Could you patch the Titanic when it was halfway down? No, that was sunk the second it hit the iceberg"

Freefall 4399 July 13, 2026
TRANSCRIPT Sam: Telling the computer what I want to have done. It makes my job easy. I don't know how it works. I don't know what I'm actually doing. Sam: I've always assumed the other guys know what they're doing. If they're using A.I. as well... this could be a problem. Sam: It makes it too obvious that almost nobody knows what they're actually doing. That destroys one of the illusions societies are built on.