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April 20, 2026 0

Gaming fans need a new safe haven

By Brian Crecente

It seems that many major players in the video game industry haven’t quite caught on to the fact that social media is essentially dead or dying. I talked about this a bit in January in my monthly column. But I ended...

April 10, 2026 0

Cuba’s next indie game is powered by fear, family, and the sun

By Brian Crecente

It is, perhaps, the perfect time in Cuba to make a horror game. Intertwined oil shortages and an economic crisis...

March 19, 2026 0

Crimson Desert Hands-on on a Handheld

By Brian Crecente

Crimson Desert is the sort of glee-generating, open-world graphical powerhouse that clearly isn’t designed to be played on a handheld PC....

January 29, 2026 0

A tumultuous time in the game industry is underscored by ICE at GDC fears

By Brian Crecente

In a response to a question about how GDC Festival of Gaming will react to ICE agents if they request information about...

January 19, 2026 0

Toxic Commando: Fusing blood, mud, and John Carpenter

By Brian Crecente

It started with a spark of an idea: What if you mashed up an off-road trucking simulator with the dread...

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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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