Davide Xu at Esports Insider reports that The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that the inaugural Olympic Esports Games will be postponed from 2025 to 2027. Esports come with unique challenges, largely spurred forward by capitalist interests.

It Takes Two (2021) is a co-op puzzle-platformer by Hazelight Studios with delightful gameplay but a thinly-developed story. Still, it's refreshing to see a AAA game that leans all the way into its occasionally baffling creative decisions.

Jonathan Blow did a long interview on the Full Time Game Dev Podcast about the state of making indie games in 2025. Blow states that it's the hardest time in games that he's seen since he's been a professional dev.

Reports have come in from Polaris, the newer offshoot of Project Horseshoe. The reports are all on topics I'm interested in, so I'm excited to get more time to dive into each. This year's reports included:

The GDC 2025 State of the Games Industry Report has arrived, but it's nowhere near as representative of the industry as Matthew Ball's incredibly thorough report.

Cory Doctorow reminds us that enshittification isn't caused by VC. His latest essay details how the big tech platforms have locked in users, dismantled competition, avoided regulation, and leverage IP law to prevent third party developers to de-enshittify their products for them.