Matthew Arcilla, editorial mercenary

It's fine, don't worry about it.

That's true, I glossed over that precise detail in the interest of a more expedient paragraph. My bad.

EA was just acquired by private equity; Congratulations or sorry that happened - Philstar Tech By now, you’ve probably heard that Electronic Arts, or EA, is being acquired by private equity.

The Philippine Star asked me to write a thing about EA.

a close up of a man 's face with a shadow on his face Alt: A slow motion close up of a young man with an unsettling grin on his face.

Been spending my after hours on chill streaming and tonight I'll be continuing The Quarry, the giant-sized Dark Picture by Supermassive Games. Live right now at
twitch.tv/experimentego/

Any higher and you would start seeing ray-traced reflections in his eyes

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems, or saying... SIMON: You mentioned that. SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from Scene 5 to Scene 6 and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of The Wire was interviewed by Ari Shapiro for NPR back in 2023. This was how he responded to suggestions of using AI to smooth over minor speed bumps in scriptwriting.

www.npr.org/transcripts/...

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers. Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

@evanhill · 11m Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

GC wrote a great thread about the recasting of Hamazaki with Teruyuki Kagawa that I really suggest reading (along with the article from @unseenjapan.com) to get full context of RGG Studios deliberate decision to stand by this choice.

The answer to why no one seems to be making new Deus Ex or whatevs is pretty much entirely that: they are, but then some guy with money goes "but that doesn't look like the game that sold well this year!" and shoots it with a shotgun

All the classic Legendary games were pre-venture capital in games

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Comics incels : women that have muscle mass is woke propaganda

Jack Kirby : haha big barda go brr

How dare our bodies refuse to cooperate under relentless torture, dehydration and nutritional abuse

God no wonder one of these voices was so familiar!! I was a Caira main on Evolve.

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Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

I'm reading this in this voice.

This is like the second to the last entry of an Umbrella researcher's journal

Battle Suit Aces is out now!

I'm a big fan of Battle Chef Brigade (sequel when? jk! well, actually...) and knew that whatever @team.trinketstudios.com would cook up next would catch my interest. A spacefaring Trek-like adventure where you command mecha using cards? I mean, sure, let's fucking go!

Yeah tbh, I wasn't expecting it so soon. The counter placed its launch time well before normal launch hours, which is why I was kinda excited! Should have known it was too good to be true. I just wish these kind of countdown errors -- this isn't the first I've seen -- were less common on Steam.

[OPINION] The sex tape that never existed Now that one of Leila de Lima’s final cases has been closed, we’re left with a choice. Do we continue to let rumors dictate our politics? Or do we demand evidence, accountability, and dignity?

"What does it say about our democracy that for nearly a decade, a non-existent tape shaped the way Filipinos saw a major opposition figure? What national conversations did we lose to the noise of this phantom scandal? Who profited from the circus while real issues went ignored?"

Dear game developers, please remember what 'on the record' means Let's discuss the role of journalists and journalism in the video game industry.

Dear game developers, please remember what 'on the record' means

Just a few hours ago, Steam told me this was coming out in less than an hour. Now it's... not?

LRT blood boiling that the rules society and companies put in place (ostensibly) to ensure safety and security are now being dismantled or undermined by the same forces that imposed them in the first place because they become unimaginably inconvenient or abused for hostile goals

Have you considered making your Spooktober handle "Von DoomSKRULL"?

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Listen, @burgerbecky.bsky.social is one of the greats. If you can spare anything at all, and you have love for this medium, I can guarantee she's in some way part of the games you love. Please help our industry help her out.

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Ridley Scott Says Movies Today Are “Drowning in Mediocrity” The 'Gladiator' director on how the "mediocrity" of modern films has sent him fleeing back to his own.

The 88 year old director with dozens more IMDB credits to his name than nearly any other filmmaker says if fewer movies were made we wouldn't be awash in mediocrity. I definitely think we didn't need House of Gucci.

some people would get so upset at me doing or say things that were critical of people in spaces around me. it was really miserable that i was trying to be honest to the best of my abilities while not making anything personal and still have so many people hate me for it.

Notice how great film critics, people like Walter Chaw and Angelica Jade Bastien and Manohla Dargis and Jourdain Searles and Richard Brody, never say, “Well, it’s not good, but I liked it.” They argue from their own convictions, confident in the taste and knowledge they’ve cultivated over time.

Quakes, storms, and the politics of forgetting It was an ordinary Tuesday night, almost 11 p.m., the tailend of my 10-day duty at Bantayan District Hospital, 137 kilometers from Cebu City. The kind of night when fatigue turns corridors into

"Yet at home, calamity funds became receipts without accountability. Relief goods arrived late, some never at all. Yolanda’s housing projects remain unfinished, substandard, or ghost. The Pharmally scandal taught us that in the Philippines, disaster is always a business opportunity."

Also LRP/LRS: I feel like there's a tendency for some to walk away from stuff they don't agree with and generalize the entire profession -- "I read one or two critics, and none of them are right!" and that's alongside weirdos who demand consensus, "every critic but you gave it a high score"