The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people, don’t know how or why people use their products, and very often have no idea what they’re doing.

I don't know if I've laughed more at a headline than when I sat down with a coffee this morning and saw "Meta Plans to Shift Spending Away From the Metaverse".

The Verge today quoted Microsoft executive VP and marketing officer Yusuf Mehdi in saying the company’s vision is to “rewrite the entire operating system around AI, and build essentially what becomes truly the AI PC.” Do you want this? I sure as shit don’t want this, and I especially don’t want to be strong-armed into it so Microsoft can fudge the numbers on its AI products’ popularity.

This computer is not for the people writing those reviews — people who already have the MacBook Pro, who have the professional context, who are optimizing at the margin. This computer is for the kid who doesn’t have a margin to optimize. Who can’t wait for the right tool to materialize. Who is going to take what’s available and push it until it breaks and learn something permanent from the breaking.

When searching for the blog post that kicked off the marketing beat earlier today, I noticed it has been removed from Xbox Wire.

Nick is a winningly benign presence at the heart of the wasteland. Infused with the memories of a pre-war cop and now running his own detective agency, he exemplifies the best of humanity.

Epic had the means to just shut Fortnite down and come up with a new title to compete with PUBG, but it had the restraint to rethink its strategy and greatly overhaul Fortnite to overcome its own shortcomings and innovate.

While a great many things have changed in the games business in the past few decades, certain basic principles remain unyielding.

I love Capcom's approach to nostalgia here, the way it frequently finds its way into the core mechanics of Requiem.

Highguard is now confirmed to be the latest in a long line of failed live-service shooters, after an announcement today.

In early 2025, when Bluepoint again pitched the idea of Bloodborne remake, the studio was told that the numbers made sense but FromSoftware didn’t want it to happen, according to people familiar with the process.

When a game like Highguard, with its Apex Legends creators and reported Tencent funding, comes out and just kind of flops, you have to wonder what happened to get it to this point.