Every boardroom where an “AI solution” gets approved
12.03.2026 13:17
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Every boardroom where an “AI solution” gets approved
You’ve got two hands!
Icymi @mads.haus and I have gifted y'all with another letter series. You're welcome.
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To be clear, none of these are my perspective, because I'm not opposed to talking about player metrics, as long as caveats and limitations are noted. I mean, what are the negative consequences? Someone says something stupid on social media? That happens every day! What are we really afraid of here?
3) Metrics can be useful but are easily abused, so only experts (e.g. Daniel Ahmad, Rhys Elliott) should ever talk about them.
All three perspectives are coherent, but the first two are stupid. Anyone who advocates that we should all plug our ears and sing "Lalala!" should never be taken seriously.
When it comes to opposition to talking about video game metrics like player counts, Steam concurrents, etc., I see three separate factions:
1) Nobody should ever talk about player metrics for any reason.
2) Metrics can be useful but are easily abused, so nobody should talk about them.
Backfirewall_. A first-person puzzle adventure game set inside a mobile phone, a setting that has the vibes of a quirkier Tron. Starts off seeming like it's going to be a Portal 2 knockoff, but then transforms into a manifesto about labour and the value of knowing one's worth.
Tron 2.0 frickin' rules. The disc launcher is one of my favourite FPS weapons ever.
This is not a case of EA reaping the consequences of quixotic folly. This is the same old ritual culling that happens all too often in the wake of a major title's release, designed to cut costs and appease shareholders. Saying otherwise shows EA's C-suite a level of grace that they do not deserve.
It's important to emphasize that Battlefield 6 didn't need to sell 100 million copies to succeed, contrary to what some folks have said based on a misinterpretation of prior reporting. It was wildly successful by any reasonable metric. Not a single person who just got laid off needed to be laid off.
"Marisa Tomei"
is an anagram for
"It's-a-me, Mario"
I don't think live games are the problem, honestly. I think the problem is investor and managerial insanity, where the people making those high-level decisions don't understand the business they're in and keep changing their mind about the risk profile of their business plan
In that case I'm just going to blame Windows 11 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I used to have that glitch quite frequently. Rebooting Firefox used to fix it temporarily. Unfortunately, what fixed it permanently was upgrading to Windows 11. 😬
I still remember the episode of Canadian Idol where Ben Mulroney told a group of contestants, "That was wack!" and Farley Flex had to chime in with, "Uh, Ben? 'Wack' means bad. Not good. Bad."
Every day I dream about a world in which Astral Chain 2 exists, and it is a better world.
Using my Viwa to pay for a Slappy Meal at WcDonald's
I'm only halfway through, but I'm ready to declare Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse the most sickos.png game of 2026.
Screenshot of a CBC News headline: Ottawa Bluesfest 2026 features Gwen Stefani, Limp Bizkit and Ella Langley
Introducing a new spin on Duck Duck Goose called Yuck Yuck Who?
Alvin, Simon, and Theodore
A new AVoCADo GamesCast episode is here, full of predictions and speculation for 2026.
Conclave is Catholic Dispatch.
I legitimately think that the adoption of “IGN review” as a thought-terminating shorthand for shallow, unthinking, consumerist criticism has been one of the top 10 biggest detriments to gaming discourse over the past decade and a half.
If Square Enix can publish a second Paranormasight game, that means they can publish a second Centennial Case/Shijima Story game, right? That's how that works?
I would like to stop having reasons to repost this.
(You can add current Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki to this list. Yoshida is "Executive Chairman" now.)
No worries!
Just FYI, the article says it's the Toronto studio, not the Montreal one.
The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
Fully subtweeting people here, but I think that if you’re exposing people to what Mark fucking Kern thinks and does in the Year of Our Lord 2026, then you’re wasting everybody’s time and brain cells.
The game that was secretly Hi-Fi Rush before Hi-Fi Rush