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Oh wow. That's REALLY thinking outside the box.
Online game Ragnarok shutting down servers for European users, because of GDPR. gamasutra.com/view/news/3170…
Verve shuts down European operations, because of GDPR. adexchanger.com/mobile/verve-c…
Brent Ozar Unlimited stops selling to European customers, thanks to GDPR. brentozar.com/archive/2017/1…
Unrollme to stop serving European customers, because of GDPR. gdpr-eu.unroll.me/sorry
SMNC online game to shut down, blaming GDPR. polygon.com/2018/4/28/1729…
Tunngle Service shuts down due to pending requirements of the GDPR. tunngle.net
Steel Root is the first security company that I know that’s blocking access to their site from EU, because of GDPR.

Another example of a company leaving EU due to GDPR.

This thread on #GDPR went sort of viral and got half a million views.

There’s a big split in reactions and replies based on whether the commenter is from Europe, or from outside of it:
Typical reactions from EU:
* That’s not what the regulation was supposed to cause
* Good riddance
* Services like Unrollme are awful for privacy, I’m glad GDPR caused this
* Don’t the stupid americans know there are hundreds of millions of more customers in EU than in the USA?
Typical reactions from EU:
* This weeds out trashy websites
* Wow how ignorant
* Bye bye, data harvesters!
* Enjoy your reduced revenues!
* Our freedom is more important than their business
Typical reactions from the USA:
* This should teach those smug EU regulators a lesson
* You can’t tell us what to do
* These regulations were designed to hurt US tech companies
* Blocking EU users serves the EU right
* Just ban the whole continent
Typical reactions from the USA:
* Lol, smart
* This law is trash
* Jokes on them: there are NO services in EU
* Thanks to GDPR, EU will become a dark swampland of digital era
* No need to block all EU visitors. Just all EU regulators

#GDPR
Btw, gdpr-shield․io seems to be down ’due to capacity problems’
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Second Reality by Future Crew was released 25 years ago. At Assembly 1993.
Here's probably the best video capture of this seminal PC demo. Capture by Trixter/Hornet (aka @MobyGamer)
Members of the Future Crew demo group ended up working with companies such as Remedy (Max Payne), Futuremark (3DMark), PopCap (Bejeweled), AMD, Unity etc.
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And the final shoe drops. CIG raised $46M this past Summer from investors.

gamasutra.com/view/news/3333…
They have updated the UK listing showing that Ezer Eli KLEIN, one of the officers of Infatrade (the investor of this deal) is now a director of CIG, joining industry heavyweight @FlyingKameLA who I revealed earlier this week.

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Remember when I said Dan was either an investor or representing the investors?

So there you have it folks, nothing further can be said here, other than this is history repeating itself.

I can't say I'm surprised because for YEARS I've been saying THIS was going to happen.
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Wavedash lays off ~30 people with less than 2 weeks notice, no severance. Example number, what, 6? in this past month? of game companies treating workers as disposable. Management knew this was a possibility and didn't prep for severance.

gamasutra.com/view/news/3280…
It's hard to imagine circumstances other than massive fraud or the total collapse of civilization so you can't get your money out of the bank in which management isn't aware that the company is on the financial brink--and aware for some time.
Like, if your being able to pay your employees next month is dependent on funding coming through, you're well aware of that. This stuff might be the possibility management dreaded, but it's hardly ever an out-of-nowhere, no one could have imagined surprise.
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BREAKING: Telltale Games Closing Down gamasutra.com/view/news/3270…
These tweets from a (now former) Telltale Games employee verify the story.
Direct confirmation from Telltale Games writer @losthiskeysman about studio closure.
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To those of you that don't understand the whole GamerGate thing. This article is an example of the cultural friction that has taken place in the video games medium for a majority of this decade. theguardian.com/games/2018/aug…
I might take the time to dissect the article a bit. But later. It's worth it to take the time to just read the piece and form your own understanding of it first.
But I couldn't pass up this sort of discussion opportunity outright. It's rarer these days to get such a chance.
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Let's write a tiled forward renderer! First step is to cut the screen up into tiles.
...and generate a tile index that we can use to access our array of per-tile data.
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