So the big news: 1. I have purchased my first home 2. The home is in Melbourne Lots of things falling apart notwithstanding, there has never been a more exciting time to be me, new lease on life
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I heard my best friend during my senior years in high school passed away in the last couple of days. To be honest we were estranged but it is nevertheless surreal. We had some great times and I'm sure that he knew that. We brought Game Boys into math class to play Pokémon,
Good Evening, “video games” was a 45 year sociological study conducted by hardware development industries. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
(stone cold Steve Austin voice) I’m talkin capybaras (what) kangaroos (what) wombats (what) platypuses (what) echidnas (what) cane toads (what) Got to be an alternate universe where Australia is an industrial hub for 3D platformers with an animal protagonist
Mark Videon@realmarkvideon.bsky.social · last mo.more games with capybaras
You may never be able to afford a console again, but I'm sure an ad supported, subscription based cloud gaming service will more than make up for it.
Brienne of Tarth Smiles in Game of Thrones Season 8
ALT: Brienne of Tarth Smiles in Game of Thrones Season 8
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Mark Videon@realmarkvideon.bsky.social · 2mo agoGot some exciting news that's too good not to share something with the world but also precarious enough that I'd prefer not to elaborate yet. Nevertheless, vibes are good!
had a moment yesterday after solving an issue hundreds of thousands of people have been hitting for nearly 2 years
Bowling: Who Do You Think You Are? I AM!
Alt: Bowling meme: Who Do You Think You Are? I AM!
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Got some exciting news that's too good not to share something with the world but also precarious enough that I'd prefer not to elaborate yet. Nevertheless, vibes are good!
Phil Spencer was tasked with achieving enterprise software grade returns in a games market where Microsoft is decidedly third of three places. Truly remarkable misunderstanding of the games industry from one of the world's largest companies
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: Xbox is planning major layoffs next month, Bloomberg has learned, as new CEO Asha Sharma confronts a bleak picture and plans what she calls a "reset" of the business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
As far as software goes 2026 is looking as strong a year for video games as I can remember
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The Title Picture: Roles & Responsibilities
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From 2012's E3 Show Daily magazine - https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/ef9efaf7-e5c3-4410-a628-3d26daf05240 - remember when Microsoft thought the Xbox's Kinect motion controller would be a "watershed moment" for home entertainment? (Nobody gets it right all the time, folks.)
Like many technologists, one of the ideas I have been grappling with over the last couple of years is - what's the point of this whole thing? blog.markvideon.dev/education-di...
Education & Digital Systems
Digital products emerge from digital factories. I write about both.
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The One About AI
I have previously made some allusions to the saturation of LLMs in the current moment by comparing it with what happened during the last major hype cycle. Today as a developer it seems every conferenc...
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I've used the term digital factory a lot and it's probably past due to look at some examples from the real world to ground the concept. Donkey Kong Country (1994), Microsoft Office (2010) and Netflix (2026) blog.markvideon.dev/yeah-but-lik...
Yeah But Like, What Actually Is The Factory Though
Late last year I presented at a conference, and a while later I received some feedback. There were a couple of things that came up that I was sympathetic to: One was that following the (abstract) conc...
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'Microsoft in games' continues to live in my head rent-free. I think their big problem is managing certain kinds of IP that has a life outside of digital products. The strengths and weaknesses of IP like Forza and Flight Simulator are pretty well aligned with the strengths and weaknesses of MS imo
I feel like the 2026 Xbox and AI strategy is going to look and sound a lot like the 2013 Xbox and Azure strategy Third-party games are probably not going to do a bunch of custom integrations for the platform in last place, so not sure what gives
There are so many boutique publishers of books about digital games these days, what a time to be alive @bossfightbooks.com @apwot.bsky.social @thevideogamelibrary.org @wearegamebound.bsky.social @rocketbooksltd.bsky.social Has me dreaming a little dream about opening a little store/museum
I think most people understand that existing data centres have considerably large energy requirements but the amounts required to support the most ambitious versions of the AI-powered future are eye-watering and almost certainly involve regressions toward a transition to renewable energy
The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 3mo agoBackers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.
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What's So Hard About Making Games?
Although the group of people who play digital games has arguably grown to be much broader and more diverse over the last two decades, until recently it was a widely held belief that digital games were...
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RE: Allbirds going from sustainable shoes to AI compute
