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May 23, 2025 0

Three years later, handheld PC gaming has evolved beyond niche

By Brian Crecente

It’s been a bit more than three years since the Steam Deck landed, popularizing a way of gaming that, at its best, was a high-priced hobbyist pursuit. While the Deck wasn’t the first handheld gaming PC (that honor goes to...

May 8, 2025 0

Polygon’s fitful birth and sudden ‘death’

By Brian Crecente

It took about a year for Polygon to come screaming to life back in 2012. It took less than a...

April 15, 2025 0

Harebrained Schemes Discusses Three Major Lessons Learned From The Lamplighters League

By Brian Crecente

When it hit in 2023, The Lamplighters League was neither a triumph nor a failure. It was a novel turn-based...

April 2, 2025 0

Nintendo takes the road more traveled with Switch 2

By Brian Crecente

Where famous blockbuster Nintendo creations like the Game Boy, DS, and Wii took the path less traveled to tremendous success,...

March 25, 2025 0

The making of a horror video game doc

By Brian Crecente

This is something new. Not necessarily a replacement of my typically written column, but a stab at trying my hand...

Appearances

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March 31, 2025 0

BBC: Could a ‘dating app’ for video games help smaller developers?

By Brian Crecente

I chatted with the BBC about the development of a new game discoverability app called Ludocene, that I'm listed as an expert for. The interview taps into the problem of...

On Journalism

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August 11, 2020 0

Robots Have Already Replaced You

By Brian Crecente

This week, like probably every week of the year, some website did something that upset people. In this case, that something was when a website published thoughts about a beta...

Reporter’s Toolbox

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