wild that i've been in the industry long enough to see the "E3 is a disgusting orgy of excess" thinkpieces morph into "the fact that we don't have E3 anymore is a damning sign of our decline" thinkpieces
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user interface designer on marathon. like a trillion bucks.
sadly, i forsee that a lot of AAA devs are going to be burnt twice in this deprofessionalization era: once when they get laid off and another when they buy into the "just go indie" narrative.
mandalorian and he-man are demonstrating that the elder millennial audience is no longer capable of being a load-bearing pillar of the entertainment complex. probably going to be a tough rest of decade for 40-yr-olds who's personality is "console AAA games and blockbuster action movies"
it's funny there's a bunch of people who think the biggest problem in video games is something like "woke devs" or "GAAS slop" when really it's "the only people who play them are all going to start dying real soon"
Mat Piscatella@matpiscatella.bsky.social · 5mo agoAccording to Circana's PlayerPulse, 62% of US players of Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth were aged 35 or older. That number goes to 77% if you go 30+. www.gamesradar.com/games/final-...
definitely the funniest thing ever written about me, personally
Some of you would blow your brains out if ever realized how close your gaming hot takes are to those of the biggest chuds on x, the everything app.
At the height of the cinematic sad dad game craze in the late 10s/early 20s not a soul was thinking about how that kind of content becoming popular was a huge red flag for the future prospects of the traditional console games biz.
i see this year's big scary powerpoint deck has dropped so it's a good time to remind everyone that the author was considered to be "one of the leading minds of the metaverse" from 2020-2024.
crypto bros experiencing a real monkey's paw moment because while it turns out Bitcoin was very ahead of it's time as a degenerate speculative financial instrument, between options trading, sports betting, 24/7 prediction markets, etc. it's now the most boring game in the casino it helped build
this is a guy in 2016 taking the same turn on angeles crest highway, almost 90 degrees coming out of the tunnel. by the time you can actually see the road again it's too late to figure out that you can't take this at more than 60mph.
"qualityslop" discourse demonstrates the totality of 4chan-style contrarianism becoming the default for the mainstream internet
if gamergater types REALLY wanted to hurt games journalism they'd figure out a way to take down steamcharts.com
every year the game award reaction thinkpieces get more and more hyperbolic. we might be at horseshoe theory levels given that there's a popular one this year that straight-up suggests that the audience for the show is sub-human.
we either have Too Much AAA or Not Enough AAA or Too Many Trailers or Not Enough Trailers or Not the Right Trailers, the one constant is that something is wrong!!
this poster is the only thing that has made me laugh out loud all year
not sure if this makes sense but the thing i like about daft punk's work on tron legacy is that it's "what if daft punk did a movie score" as opposed to tron ares which is "what if a movie score was a NIN album"
how could they forget the fourth pillar which is drunk indie devs causing massive amounts of drama in their "scenes"
i'm surprised there hasn't been more writing on how the boom/bust cycle of the marvel film biz basically mirrors the 90s comic book industry crash? like even down to the infinity gauntlet marking the top of the boom period, preceding endless crossovers and gimmicks that crashed the industry.
going to do a double feature of the last couple eps of andor s2 then "mandalorian and grogu" to see if it's possible to die in real life from tonal whiplash
there was a five-ish year stretch where i was designing almost all the non-licensed merch, designing all of the signage and video displays, and also physically working the booth from show open to show close at the pax west bungie store booth good times but pretty much burned me out on cons forever
every year i get a couple twitter or linkedin dms with unsolicited "UX case studies" and every time they consist mostly of a bunch of new feature wishcasting and very little UI/UX work.