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gaming studios are full of people who are squarely in the target market for the product they're developing. this has downsides but in many ways is a huge edge, so in a sense ageism…

valorant had layoffs, as did league. what makes you expect cuts on the league game design and balance teams? (not the same thing, btw)

brutal job market in games right now. layoffs and studio closures all over the place, startups having trouble closing rounds, meanwhile ever more games on the market with 15k relea…

thanks for reading and sharing your perspective! i'm arguing against my own interest here as VCs indirectly pay most of my income, but as you also observe the standard playbook doe…

>there is also a place for large VC funded teams that's a good point. i was at a large dev for a while myself and a fair number of coworkers have gone on to start their own studios…

you're correct, this was a basic error on my part - it's #5 all time ( https://steamdb.info/charts/?sort=peak ). apologies / thanks for the catch, and i've fixed the text

hiya, author here. Palworld is a wild, wild game (think pokemon meets ark:survival evolved, or simply pokemon with guns), and it follows a number of other super-successful indie ga…

i don't know that it would be fair of me to bemoan the slow progress of long covid research given how new it is by medical standards, but at the very least i am glad that mainstrea…

i have some familiarity with sentiment / intent detection in context heavy environments (gaming and VR) and absolutely agree that labeling is both a fundamental and very nuanced pr…

this is a good example of the importance of comms and user education. robinhood didn't lock trading - or at the very least, they were far from the only brokerage to do so and had v…