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To Prove We Haven't Reached AGI, the ARC Prize Foundation Built a Game Studio
Top AI models fail to score even 1% on ARC-AGI-3. Humans ace it easily. I asked two members from the ARC team why their new puzzle game collection…
Mar 31
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The Man Behind the Monkey
Grant Kirkhope is one of the greatest ever composers of video game soundtracks. Some of his most iconic sounds emerged from the smallest, chance…
Oct 3, 2025
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The Best YouTube Video of 2025 Was Filmed in Minecraft
Is this Massively Multiplayer Reality TV? A bunch of 20-something Minecraft roleplayers are inventing a novel form of entertainment, and tens of…
Sep 5, 2025
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Behind the Three-Letter Tweet That Pissed Off the Entire Games Industry
"omw"
Aug 8, 2025
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YouTubers Can't Save All the Indie Games
“The systems we have available just aren't built for this kind of volume.”
Jul 25, 2025
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The Word-of-Mouth Magic Behind Breakout Hits Like Balatro
LocalThunk says the streamer Dan Gheesling changed everything for Balatro. I asked Gheesling for his POV.
Jul 18, 2025
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How to Get YouTubers to Play Your Game
How a dev netted 6,000 Steam wishlists with an unusually clean cold email
Jul 11, 2025
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Interview: Panic's Decade-Long Journey to Build a Handheld
Greg Maletic on how COVID nearly killed the Playdate (and Untitled Goose Game saved it).
Jun 27, 2025
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Ryan K. Rigney
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How Much Game Can You Fit in 2.7 Inches?
Conversations with artists pushing the limits of the world's tiniest games console
Jun 13, 2025
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Nintendo and the Last Hardware Exclusives
A few thoughts inspired by the launch of the Switch 2
Jun 6, 2025
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Valve's 30% Platform Tax is Bad for Small Developers
It's time to follow Epic's lead by offering 0% fees on each dev's first $1 million.
May 30, 2025
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Gaming’s Great Downsizing and the Garage-Band Game Economy
Brendan Keogh explains the post-2008 collapse of the Australian games industry and how it might prefigure changes coming for the rest of the world
May 23, 2025
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