Why Isn’t Anyone Funding Video Games Anymore?
'If anyone tells you that it’s easy to get funding right now, I’m going to assume that they picked up the phone and called rich mom and dad'
Podcasts
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Why Do Mainstream Publications Keep Trying To Help Xbox Rehabilitate Its Image?
"Come on, at least don't do the work for her"
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Why Aren’t There Any Major Video Game Studios In NYC?
"The kind of paradox of New York is that there’s all this punk energy and tradition, but it’s fucking expensive to live in"
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Dylan Faden Did Nothing Wrong, Except For Everything He Did Wrong
Come for the thoughtful discussion of why Remedy games just hit different, stay for Luke’s monologue about the power of architecture.
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Why It Took Years For A Story About Bobby Kotick Sending Journalists Legal Threats To Come Out
"It wasn’t about pulling together the evidence. It wasn’t about doing the research. That was done pretty early on"
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The Steam Frame Is Good, But For Who?
On this week's podcast we were joined by The Verge's Sean Hollister to talk VR, retro games and more
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What Really Caused The Video Game Crash Of 1983?
"It takes more than bad games, I think, to kill an industry"
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Star Wars Zero Company's Success Is Bittersweet
What should be a victory celebration for a breakout game has been hampered by a messy lawsuit and developers without pay.
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GTA VI’s Realism Might Make It Hard To Kill People
"I wonder if I’ll be able to do the normal Grand Theft Auto thing of going on a rampage and killing a bunch of people. I don’t think I’d feel good about it"
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Nothing About GTA VI’s Launch Can Be Normal
"Can you imagine another video game getting this treatment? This level of brand recognition and obnoxious Netflix specials and Sephiroth-adjacent coin-selling hacker kids sending manifestos?"
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The Onion’s Infowars Is Destroying What’s Left Of Alex Jones’ Reputation And Getting Sandy Hook Families Paid
"If you take all of his stuff and then spend a long time saying, 'You have to be a moron to believe what this guy thinks,' that’s how you actually affect change here"
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Balkanize The Video Game Industry
"I want this industry to just shatter into a million beautiful shards that all have their own heroes, their own things, their own structures, their own funding methods"