Fuck about, that was quick

Throughout it all, even when things went bad, Spencer clearly understood games as a medium, a profession, and a business. Having an Actual Game Guy at the top of a big gaming company is far rarer than it should be, and while there was a lot of facade to Spencer — particularly towards the end, when he used faux-candour and his gaming credentials to try to mask the godawful shitfest he had spawned — I imagine this is the aspect of him we will come to miss the most. Heartening though it is to at last see a woman in the big chair in this most historically blokey of industries, I do not see much in Asha Sharma’s track record to suggest things are about to get better. (And that’s before we get into all the birthrater stuff.) So, yeah. Phil was a good bloke, and he did some good stuff. I believe his heart was in the right place right up until the end — but unfortunately for him, and the rest of us, Microsoft these days is no place for hearts. Let’s have a quick look at the three big moments where, to my mind, it all went wrong for Phil Spencer.

On Phil Spencer newsletter.hitpoints.co/362-dank-spe...

With new blockbusters taking longer and costing more than ever to make, and nostalgia never a more powerful currency, shuttering a proven specialist in remakes and remasters is frankly insane. Casting out a team of such deep technical expertise and, more crucially, such broad institutional knowledge — Bluepoint doesn’t just know its own tools and technology, but also those of the studios whose games it has modernised, from Sony Santa Monica to Naughty Dog, Team Ico to FromSoftware — is simply inexplicable. Pretending there’s nothing for Bluepoint to work on, when the market for remakes has never been bigger and the long-rumoured, widely coveted Bloodborne remake has reached Shenmue 3 levels of mythicism, is unbelievable. Everything about this decision, from top to bottom and viewed from any and every angle, is ridiculous, baffling, an affront.

On Bluepoint

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i just think our launch video is really cool. you should watch it, if you haven't seen it yet. and also, there are only 12 days left in our pre-launch sale! 15% off your subscription for LIFE!!! mothership.blog 4 eva

Credits for Brent Porter (3D art lead) and Catherine Menabde (2D art lead) are shown here. There's a lengthy description of what they did, with a pastiche of various Demonschool characters underneath, messing around with a computer.

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

Amazing!!!
Already preordered! I am looking forward to both relive and read everything here

I promise once it gets here to Colombia, I will find a nice spot and take a picture of the book with a Caribbean background just for publicity!

get better soon! We will be here!

@mackeza.bsky.social

miss, are you no longer writing pushing buttons?

#319: Midnight caller Early thoughts on Switch 2 and a surprise start to not-E3.

Wrote a free one. On Switch 2 being weirdly un-Nintendo (but good!), State Of Play being a bit performative (but good!) and all the rest of the week’s big stuff. People seem to like it! You should read it! newsletter.hitpoints.co/319-midnight...

I got the book on Amazon, after all. it just works.
Easily. No hassle. No hidden stuff.

To my chagrin. One Click. And now I am off to whatever fantasy land Mr Abercrombrie created. Good Day Sir!!

- A concerned customer.

I want to become an author. But with publishers like you in the internet making things harder FOR EVERYONE, no wonder things are so dire.

Make it easily available everywhere and you will see your numbers flourish. Limit it and the Great Spirit of Francis Drake will own you forever.

I want you to take my stupid hard earned money. But it seems you don't want it. At all.

Why you want number go up but limit people from a different latitude to get it to you? The bank will give you the 14. CHARGE US the tax and conversion and you help an author reach further.

I can easily go the High Seas, get the damn book, and see how I manage to get the 14 dollars to the author. That would require ONE CLICK. 10 seconds. And worry later down the road.

Or I could go to Amazon and get it on Kindle with worst rates for the author.

@bookshop.org

See this is why people end up pirating everything.

I tried to buy Joe Abercrombies' newest book "The Devils" from Colombia with three different cards and all were declined BY YOU.

I have two options as it stands right now with your stupid limitations:

I do wonder if there is a way to see this for all countries in LATAM. Because mexico is dreadful with just Free to Play stuff.

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Yo debería escribir un primer de

"Soy un desarrollador, me compré un Macbook con un M adentro (M1, M2, M3 M4)

Y ahora, ¿Qué más hago?"

Donde explico como configurar el ambiente como uno se acostumnbra, que instalar, los paquetes, los manejadores las diferencias del CPU...

Sometimes, I run
Sometimes, I hide
Sometimes, I'm scared of you
But all I really want is to hold you tight
Treat you right
Compile day and night
Baby, All I need is time. (CPU TIME)

The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex

Today's paid newsletter is free to all! A monster edition covering all the week's big news, Ninja Gaiden II Black, and that massive VC presentation everyone's been going on about from which I learned exactly one thing: there is no singular 'game industry' newsletter.hitpoints.co/298-carve-it...

MIDNIGHT MESSIAH!

\m/ HAIL TRVE METVL!!!!

La nueva app de bancolombia esta bien hecha
Funciona
Es rapida
Pareciera nativa

Jamas pensé que escribiria esto:

Pero es la mejor app de bancos en Colombia que yo haya visto :O

With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.

Siempre que te pregunto
Que cómo cuándo y dónde
Tu siempre me respondes
Quizás, quizás, quizás

Y así pasan los días
Y yo, desesperando
y tú, tú contestando

QUIZÁS, QUIZÁS, QUIZÁS.

The weirdest story someone told me (about a now known creep) that at an awards banquet, she was sitting next to him (did not know him personally) and after dinner ice cream was brought out. Her ice cream came out first and his was delayed and, after a moment, he reached over with his spoon... 1/2

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Gold Banner on Red Background: Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING! Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

An image showing dell’s new laptop naming convention. Dell. Dell Pro. Dell Pro Max. And under each tier are three additional tiers, base, plus, and premium. Meaning a name for laptop could be the Dell Pro Max premium. Or Dell plus. Or Dell Pro basic.

This is the dumbest naming strategy I’ve ever seen in my life. Way to take the worst things from Apple and somehow make them even more confusing. This is not an improvement, Dell! via https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24325799/dell-pro-max-premium-plus-ces-laptop-pc-rebrand-announcement

Sometimes you just need to go back to tje source and replenish and nurture your life

So I went back to Rush 2112. And I am relearning my love for it.

What an amazing album.

So my Windows Computer has been updating for one hour or so.

I don't understand why this process is so slow and time consuming on any windows machine regardless of its relative computational power