@brkeogh.bsky.social
Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/ Brisbane, Australia | he/him
(fwiw too I also fully agree with you on the discoverability reads the data. I don't think this represents a problem that is fixed with better discoverability or more people writing reviews but more just a clear depiction of typical capitalist overproduction)
Not sure on the source of this one but it's interesting
Yeah real important point and I misspoke in that previous reply sorry. All it says that there is a (somewhat arbitrary) baseline of engagement and the number of games reaching that level is not increasing nearly at the same scale as the number of games available in total.
This is real interesting but risks being a bit deceptive without the context of total releases increasing 10x in the same time period. And would also note 1-500 reviews is probably not a remark amount of sales for most products relative to cost.
Not by the researchers, to stress, but by various social discourses. Marketing, journalism, peers, etc.
We should also always be super wary of these kinds of player surveys regardless of sample size as they don't necessarily reveal some objective absolute preference but often just reflect what people have been told they should value.
Right as in the 2018 breakdown is showing the breakdown as per 2026 review numbers on 2018 games? It an important caveat! But yeah agree i don’t think it would shift much
Also I guess important to note ‘500+’ could be any number so some games could be getting a lot more and an increasing amount
yeah even if there are more sales over all (as relative to number of reviews), are those sales of a decreasing amount?
Yeah essentially I would read it as the number of games available is growing dramatically but the number of games being purchased is not
In some ways yes but in more ways probably no because there's so little of the PC game consumer market, relatively, that isn't on Steam.
I would suggest this is a more valuable Steam chart, from SteamDB. Releases dramatically grow each year but the number of new games getting more than 500 user reviews does not.
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Ireland's new fossil-fuelled #Petrotech data center will increase Ireland's **total** (everything, not just the power sector) emissions by ~1%
Absolutely nuts. A 1% national increase - for what? Come on boosters, explain why this is worth it 🫠
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I've had a flat out day and only just got a change to share this very important and exciting project and it is already funded
urgh I’m gonna need to do this
Using Microsoft web services across different organisations and accounts is such a breathtakingly bad experience. Unable to do things that Google Drive sorted out over a decade ago.
Annual request for pics of any of my books that happen to be at the GDC bookstore please.
Attacks leave dead vs killed
Speaking as a digital media expert, I really think it's about time we abolish the eSafety Commissioner
(conservative thinking about art) art would be better if artists were normal
GDC taking over the park that the cool kids who couldn't afford to go to GDC would hang out in during GDC is too literally Bourdieusian even for my taste.
Sorry but you will never fool me into considering car racing a legitimate sport
Just in time for @bandcamp.com Friday, I've finally released the Expanded Edition of the Mars First Logistics soundtrack.
Featuring half an hour of new music for the full release of @ianmaclarty.com's wonderful game, and a generally sunny musical disposition.
Free to all who bought the original.
By Increpare! You should play it. Like 10mins long. Is the cover of my book A Play of Bodies
This is a lie it would probably be (in no order)
1. GTA4
2. Morrowind
3. Binary Domain
4. Driver San Francisco
5. Just Cause 2
6. Final Fantasy 7
7. Slave of God
8. Audiosurf
9. Earth Defense Force 4/5/6
I would post my 9 games but you probably haven’t heard of them
Super thrilled to have completed my final seminar today and to be told that I’m almost ready to lodge my thesis for examination :”) huge thanks to my supervisors @timothyjgraham.bsky.social @petamitchell.bsky.social and Benjamin Nicoll for their help over the past three years
yep
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Just read this article on the US & Israeli strikes on a school in Minab, Iran.
- At least 168 killed, including many girls aged 7-12.
- The school was bombed THREE times, not once.
- There were claims this was on an IRGC military base, but the base was closed 15 years ago.
This is a war crime.
Always lovely to hear!