Ubisoft recently published some details about its experiments in generative AI, in which writers craft a personality and backstory for an NPC that can then, the company hopes, have “an
One of the life lessons that didn’t make it into my Inside Baseball week blog about the horrible personal insights that come with owning a business is this: I
Going from basically no concept of what a business is to owning one myself alongside other people has taught me a lot. In the early stages of forming Aftermath, Luke
Rooster Teeth is shutting down. The long-running video game media company went through a series of owners before landing with Warner Brothers Discovery, who continue to ruin the things they
The video game industry layoffs of the past few years have shown us that big-budget game development is unsustainable: all that crunch and ballooning costs don’t necessarily equal commercial
To add to the current Aftermath trend of playing card games, I just picked up Cobalt Core, an FTL-like space combat roguelike but with a card deck to manage instead
The journalism death spiral just keeps spinning lately, with the rich ghouls who own the industry energetically stripping it for parts. Which of these parts is the most valuable seems
PlayStation announced Tuesday that it’s laying off about 900 people, or 8% of its workforce. The cuts will impact “employees across the globe, including our studios.”
In a letter
Luke and I have both been playing driving survival game Pacific Drive. Luke wrote last night about his dislike of the save system, a feeling I can relate to. But
Yesterday, Riot announced the official name of its fighting game, once known as Project L, as 2XKO. Fans were swift to make fun of how the hell you’re supposed
You might remember a while back I had some trouble with my PC, which involved buying a whole new power supply before realizing the problem was a $20 fan. At
The trailer for the Borderlands movie came out yesterday. It looks fine, I guess; I’m not really a Borderlands guy, though I love to watch Randy Pitchford talk about
