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July 17, 2026 0

Cliff Bleszinski Knows What Went Wrong

By Brian Crecente

Cliff Bleszinski has a list. He picks the paper off his desk during the tail end of our interview and waves it toward me when I ask him what went wrong. It’s a neatly typed, itemized accounting of the lowest...

July 3, 2026 0

The Slow, Deliberate Death of Game Ownership

By Brian Crecente

News this month that Sony Interactive Entertainment would stop producing PlayStation physical discs in 2028 wasn’t very surprising, but the way it...

June 25, 2026 0

New York Has a Gamer Mayor Now — and a $2.6 Billion Game Industry to Match

By Brian Crecente

June in New York City wasn’t entirely about the NBA. Three days before the New York Knicks won their first...

June 14, 2026 0

From a 2027 movie to Scooby-Doo, Dead by Daylight looks to shake up the next decade of its universe of horror

By Brian Crecente

Forty-one killers, 53 survivors, 61 maps, and 70 million players later, Dead by Daylight continues to frighten and delight, building...

June 1, 2026 0

Building a video game archive 10,000 items at a time

By Brian Crecente

The Archivio Storico Barilla and its pasta museum house the oldest spaghetto in the world, dating back to 1837. It’s...

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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 1

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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