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An Unlosing update

Just wanted to send a note to let subscribers know that I've accepted a job offer and as a result I only expect to be making sporadic posts here for the foreseeable future. While I'm excited for this new opportunity, it's a little bittersweet

Meta's money well spent

Meta continues to burn money on the metaverse like it's going out of style, even though by all accounts it has been entirely out of style for some time now. The company lost another $4.4 billion on its Reality Labs AR/VR division in the last quarter,

Nintendo sets the Alarmo | A Decade Down the Road

Nintendo's new alarm clock surprised everyone, even though the company told people all about it 10 years ago this month

Can Roblox beat the "pedophile hellscape" charges?

A new report calls Roblox "a pedophile hellscape for kids" while accusing the company of misleading investors. What's new here, and how insufficient was the company's response?

The AI game dev push is patently absurd | This Week in Games

This patent for Game Development Via Generative AI raises a lot more questions than it answers

Honoring the GOAT of Bad Game Quotes | This Week in Games

Terrible executive quotes are such a major export of the games industry that it's about time we set up a Hall of Fame to honor the worst of the worst. Here's the inaugural class.

Brazen abuses and bad actors | This Week in Games

LinkedIn wants your consent to train GenerativeAI models on your data, and it's not waiting for you to give it.

"Nintendo hardware goes away, because nobody cares" | A Decade Down the Road

10 years ago this month, consoles were dying and there was no place for Nintendo in the hardware market, depending on who you listened to.

Microsoft digs deeper as Unity digs itself out | This Week in Games

Egads, what a week. I ran a column Tuesday figuring that Sony's PS5 Pro unveiling would be the week's biggest news. But now we've got Xbox layoffs and Unity celebrating the first anniversary of its Runtime Fee announcement by killing the thing once and

PS5 Pro raises questions about the future of consoles | This Week in Games

Console gaming used to have a bunch of advantages over alternative forms of gaming. Those have lessened over time, and the PS5 Pro announcement suggests the console market will be narrowed further in the future.

Snitches get riches | This Week in Games

The SEC's whistleblower program pays for tips that lead to fines, and has proven effective. The FTC and other regulators need to have comparable programs in place.

Microsoft improves conflict minerals sourcing as Sony's backslide continues

How are game hardware makers doing when it comes to ensuring their supply chains aren't funding armed conflict and human rights abuses?

It will get better | This Week in Games

Anyone can tell you it's been an absolutely brutal stretch in the games industry going back nearly two years now. Nothing but layoffs and cancellations and closures and precious little optimism to cling to. We've got recruitment agencies closing because people don't want to

Making good on years of threats

Hey, here's a fun idea: I'm going to try to do something and probably fail miserably, and you're going to get to watch it happen. Come on, it'll be fun! So I was laid off in May after 19 years employed as

August and everything after | A Decade Down The Road

When I was doing the 10 years ago this month column at GamesIndustry.biz, there were two months I had mentally circled on the calendar for upcoming columns, one I was eagerly looking forward to and one I was absolutely dreading. The happy one was going to be August of