Culture

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.

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.

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.

I've been reading some posts lately on the return of the linklog (also called link blogging). This is the kind of blogging that used to be ubiquitous on the web about 15 years ago, and I'm thinking about returning to it.

Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl was recommended to me by a mentor who has now recommended several books in a row about young writers coming into their own...