DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations faced brutal crunch, with developers working up to 80-hour weeks to finish the expansion before release.
Laid off id Software developer says crunch on Doom: The Dark Ages' Revelations DLC was "brutal" with up to 17-hour days
Doom: The Dark Ages developer id Software may have managed to ship the Revelations DLC on time, but it reportedly came at the cost of the wellbeing of its staff
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.
The Vault
The Vault contains every game released in the world for thirty-three classic systems.
Microsoft announces 3200 layoffs and four studio departures in "most significant" Xbox restructuring in history
It's a brutal day at Xbox.
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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
Bungie confirms it’s ending Destiny 2 updates to focus on new games | VGC
The end of Destiny updates follows declining player numbers…
How creatives and devs can all finally escape the control of the silicon valley of evil and make a trillion dollars - Multi-hyphenate
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Grave Seasons is my most anticipated murder mystery-farming sim of the summer | RPG Site
A cozy horror farming-dating sim…What could go wrong?
Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun
We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.
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?
007 First Light Hands-On: A Fun James Bond That Plays It Safe
IO Interactive's latest game feels engineered to be a crowd pleasing blockbuster
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.
Meta Has Entered Its Death Spiral
Meta was hot during its early glory days, but it's starting to look as though it's entered a long, inexorable death spiral.
Rainbows End: what lessons can we take from future worlds? - Boris Mann Tech Blog
Vernor Vinge's sci-fi novel Rainbows End and what it can teach us about b2b software
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth o…
Few topics are as timely as the growth of government. T…
