@nickstatt.bsky.social
Sr. Producer on Vox Media’s Decoder podcast. Former gaming/tech reporter & editor with Protocol, Verge, CNET. Addicted to Marvel Snap and telling myself I should read more. I have a cat named General Bean Sprout.
I wrote about Bluesky's CEO switch. Jay Graber deserves lasting credit for building a big and bustling community. But the challenges ahead of the company are significant: www.platformer.news/bluesky-ceo-...
Marathon is easily the best designed, most fun, most addicting online multiplayer game to come out since Apex Legends almost 7 years ago. No contest whatsoever. Sincerely hope there is enough staying power here to keep Sony invested for the long haul. kotaku.com/marathon-mul...
If you’re feeling existentially worried about the state of everything, I do recommend riding your bike to the beach and then cooking a homemade chicken parm. Does wonders.
Anthropic's lawsuit against the Trump administration:
"No federal statute authorizes the actions taken here. Anthropic turns to the judiciary as a last resort to vindicate its rights and halt the Executive’s unlawful campaign of retaliation."
www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...
One one hand this is silly, and on the other hand, Sony is the most reactive, risk-adverse of the big publishers and they're probably seeing the writing on the wall for the next-gen of consoles, which I don't think is going to sell people on anything but exclusives. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The real tragedy here we don't often talk about is Oath. Or maybe Tronc. I think abotu Tronc a lot.
Yahoo sold another one of the tech sites it acquired via AOL / Verizon over the years, this time Engadget. Last year, it sold TechCrunch. Nice lil scoop from @davidpierce.xyz: www.theverge.com/tech/888364/...
NEW: On Friday night when OpenAI announced its Pentagon deal, people immediately challenged Sam Altman's claims. Why, they asked, would the DoD suddenly agree to red lines when it had clearly said it would never budge?
The answer, sources told me, is that it didn't.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Hey Mike. Producer for Decoder w/ Nilay Patel here. Wanted to get in touch about having you on the podcast to talk about this story and the ongoing Anthropic situation. Let me know if we can discuss over email or DMs. Thx!
Sam Altman got played and spun it like a win - @haydenfield.bsky.social has the scoop from a weekend’s worth of reporting from inside the Pentagon AI negotiations. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
It was really strong. I think the core faction / meta progression loop of the game is going to take players a while to get used to but I’m very impressed just technically with how it looks and feels and I’m confident they’re going to do some fun stuff. Feels like the start of Destiny in a good way.
Marathon is good, I am having fun, and I think this game will be successful. The obsession with convincing one's self and everyone around them that new multiplayer games are doomed to fail is not healthy for the industry or the community.
Trump admin just handed Anthropic arguably the most valuable free marketing it could ever ask for. Big questions now are whether the company can hold the line and to what extent the damage the administration tries to do here ends up spilling over. www.theverge.com/policy/88648...
Piece of news that will surely be received well by the broader gaming community www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Jailed during the 2021 coup in Myanmar, American journalist Danny Fenster passed the time by meditating and listening to podcasts that had been smuggled in.
Read the comic Notes from a Burmese Prison: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Big move in the ongoing “should AI companies let the government make autonomous murder bots” saga. Anthropic now calling Pete Hegseth’s bluff here. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
The dumbest thing about this is that it's the customer who is most likely to be saying please and thank you in almost all interactions, so mandating the workers say it sounds like it would just contort otherwise completely normal conversations.
Nobody wants AI surveillance to improve “friendliness.” This is dehumanizing nonsense. Who asked for this? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
I've played the Dead Spies demo for almost three hours and all I've done is talk to four different people and dial a number on a pay phone. We are so back.
Oh cool the new A24 'Backrooms' film is actually about generative AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKGh...
I interviewed Roblox's head of parental advocacy for Vulture about safety on the platform 👀
Here's @hankgreen.bsky.social talking about converting Complexly into a nonprofit, why more people should just ask the billionaires for money, and why my platform / AI nihilism isn't inevitable. An all-time Decoder, really www.theverge.com/podcast/8820...
Really good play by play from the always excellent @tomwarren.co.uk on what went down at Xbox last week and all the inner turmoil that preceded it. www.theverge.com/tech/883015/...
How many studios will get eaten and ultimately destroyed by the insatiable hunger for live service revenue? Sony is clearly trying to find out.
In a statement regarding Seedance 2.0, ByteDance says it "respects intellectual property rights," which you might find confuting because SeeDance 2.0 massively violated intellectually property rights. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
My unsolicited advice to the game industry: strive to make games that, at first glance, make people think "this looks fucking outrageous." I think that's actually precisely what people are looking for. blog.playstation.com/2026/02/12/a...
introducing my column about resistance in fiction for @aftermath.site. I’m calling it THE WORK
aftermath.site/oscars-revol...
SCOOP: Tensions at Palantir have grown in recent weeks over the company's work with ICE.
On Friday, CEO Alex Karp tried to calm concerns in an hourlong video that offered few specifics—instead offering NDAs to workers who want to understand how it's empowering ICE.
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Hold on reorienting my entire personality around becoming a Baby Waluigi fan
