Patrick Garratt
@patlike.bsky.social
➡️ EIC of Knowledge, the Edge videogame industry newsletter ➡️ Cofounder of VG247 ➡️ Writer, author ➡️ https://patrickgarratt.com/
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Wrote about how I'd regularly recommend the Series S to my more casual gamer mates, the broader disastrous trend of console gaming increasingly becoming a hobby for the monied, and how the new & totally unviable Series S price is a searing alarm for another iceberg the industry is sailing toward
Valid complaints about power levels and development strain be damned, the Xbox Series S was the best value in console gaming. That experiment has now utterly failed: https://www.respec.net/feature/135-the-xbox-series-s-was-best-value-in-consogaming-that-experiment-has-now-utterly-failed
The Telegraph: by the far right, for the far right.
The inevitable endpoint of this story, in which a man in the Telegraph uses a single case to complain that attempts to treat people fairly are an existential threat to universities. Surprise: you’ll never believe that the professor who wrote the story went to an elite, boys-only private school.
I have been told which games writers secretly hate each other and apparently it’s “all of them”?
In today's issue, we talk to "micro-AAA" @pridefulsloth.com co-founder Cheryl Vance about taking Go Go Town! to the top of the Switch 2 charts with only five staff. Sign up here for new issues at 2pm GMT every Friday: bit.ly/knowledgenew...
In today's issue, we talk to UKIE CEO Nick Poole about the souring desire to work in the UK game industry in response to mass layoffs. Live at 2pm GMT. Sign up to get weekly issues by email every Friday: bit.ly/knowledgenew...
Irish people completely losing their shit. If I'm ever this happy I'll be able to rest in peace.
From the funny community on Reddit: Commentary from Mayo breaking a 75 year drought winning the All-Ireland Football Championship 😂
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Saudi Arabia executed at least 356 people last year (including five women for "witchcraft"). Only China and Iran executed more. Apart from buying EA, Saudi's PIF now owns 6% of Take-Two and 10% of Nintendo. Please read the Knowledge piece from @robfahey.net last week: tinyurl.com/4685huxk
rate my audiophile setup (the books on top of the ps2 is because the lid doesn’t close properly)
Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%
Hello. I'm going to be in Cologne for Gamescom Dev and Gamescom from August 23-27. Let me know if you want to talk.
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
One thing I never did was a post-mortem of Sir. Perhaps this is as good a time and place as any to talk about some of that. It started in 2010 when Channel 4 had some money to spend on making educational games. For some reason they asked me. ->thread
In surprising computer game news: Sir, You Are Being Hunted finally made it to console, just fourteen years after release on PC. It's out now on Switch, PS5, and Xbox. (And Steam and GoG, of course.)
Le 25 juillet 1936, c'est du 32, Via Laietana, à Barcelone, siège local de la CNT, que s'élança la fameuse Colonne Durruti, menée par le grand militant anarchiste Buenaventura Durruti. Elle comprit jusqu'à 6000 combattant·es antifascistes (160 femmes, dont Simone Weil, et un Groupe international).
Saw The Cure last night in Nîmes. Pretty sexy, to be honest.
"It’s entirely fair for players, staff, and anyone else involved to be worried that this deal is more about political and cultural influence than about purely business-driven considerations." @robfahey.net in today's issue on EA's sale, approved yesterday by the EU. Sub here: tinyurl.com/ybenvahb
The main thing I've learned from playing with my cats is they would have fucking loved the convoy ambushes in Far Cry 2.
The European Commission has greenlit the EA acquisition by Saudi's PIF: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Daily News 23 / 07 / 2026
Commission fines Google €890 million for breaches of the Digital Markets Act\nToday, the European Commission took two decisions finding non-compliance by Google with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for ...
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"One man's garbage is another man's heritage": Why Cognition's Lunar Strike is targeting the preservation of humanity through real science: tinyurl.com/5e94dhjk
★ Emma Goldman : Affirmation de soi et émancipation de la femme... " Le texte d’Emma Goldman proposé ci-dessous est un court extrait d’un de ses essais les plus célèbres, « La tragédie de l’émancipation féminine » (1906)... "
★ Emma Goldman : Affirmation de soi et émancipation de la femme - Socialisme libertaire
★ Emma Goldman (1869-1940) Le texte d’Emma Goldman proposé ci-dessous est un court extrait d’un de ses essais les plus célèbres « La tragédie de l’émancipation féminine » (1906 in Mother Earth ). En g...
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Will Moby Professional fix gaming recruitment? We talk to MobyGames on the jobs tool built on the site's 25-year-old game database: tinyurl.com/5e94dhjk
Truly your capsule is not just a pretty picture We tested ours before it ever went on Steam, now the lifetime click through rate is 9.9% (more than 4% is exceptional)
Solo devs running real A/B tests on their Steam capsule art before launch is becoming as normal as playtesting the game itself now. Wishlists probably care more about that one image than the trailer does. #indiedev #gamedev
In our latest issue, we welcomed @jamesbatchelor.bsky.social as our newest contributor. As Sony readies to stop PS5 disc production, he looks at the reality of other digitised entertainment industries and their relationships with physical media: tinyurl.com/4jhspv9p