Looking at the maths on the Unity changes really puts into stark contrast what the effect will be on platform deals—which in my experience are what keep indie studios running/sustainable. Some notes for non devs 🧵: The upside of these deals is the lump sum payout you receive + the high user numbers you gain. The gamble you make is that those high user numbers will drive sales on other platforms, because the lump sum is not even close to the revenue you’d have for the same number of sales.

The more I play Cyberpunk 2077 the more I realise CDPR have pulled the heist of the generation, and they’ve done so on the back of the idea of “bugs”. 👇 Cyberpunk is buggy as hell, we all know that, but by expecting and acknowledging this reviewers seem to have turned a blind eye to the massive, often absurd, issues with the game’s open world.

I just finished Cyberpunk 2077's Konpeki Plaza heist and yeah... the immediate nosedive into the WORST Japanese cliches to emerge from Neuromancer and the like is startling and really cemented my feelings about the severe issues with the overt Orientalism in this game.

https://twitter.com/wouldhaus/status/1338419857541328896

Obviously my focus is usually on the architecture, and something is also really bothering me about the faux Japanese and Chinese urban fabric which is ripped from its context and layered on top of Los Angeles of all places. There is such a strong disjunction to this.

Playing the Star Citizen "freefly" A Thread - Initially amazed by the corporate future the game so luxuriously projects without self-awareness. Wandering around endless waiting rooms, watched by corporate security and listening to endless adverts feels deeply insidious. Took a train to the spaceport. Looking out across a vast field of containers in a Burtynsky-esque anthropocene landscape, while beside me a racing jet quietly purrs for my attention on a show stand certainly has a sense of realism that borders on the perverse.