Interviews

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 •

They're Making Dutch Golden Age Art in Minecraft

And by "they" I mean 23-year-old furries from the Netherlands

Aug 29 •

Behind the Three-Letter Tweet That Pissed Off the Entire Games Industry

Aug 8 •

YouTubers Can't Save All the Indie Games

“The systems we have available just aren't built for this kind of volume.”

Jul 25 •

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 •

How to Get YouTubers to Play Your Game

How a dev netted 6,000 Steam wishlists with an unusually clean cold email

Jul 11 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

How to Get Your First 1,000 Players: White Knuckle Edition

And a very useful trick to level up your Discord onboarding

May 16 •

The Idle Joys of Games You Don't Play

A Q&A with the creator of a clever idle game about patience and distraction

Apr 25 •

The Surprisingly Solarpunk Life of the Game Dev Behind "Spilled!"

How a 25-year-old Dutch game developer reclaimed her childhood

Apr 4 •

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