Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall(polygon.com)

434 points by perihelions 1 year ago | 521 comments

Polygon article reporting that Counter-Strike's in-game skin economy has lost nearly $2 billion in value.

PS5 shooter goes from 5 players to bestseller after devs defend game(polygon.com)

70 points by driftsumi-e 1 year ago | 34 comments

Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles(arstechnica.com)

335 points by furcyd 10 months ago | 498 comments

Ars Technica preview of Jonathan Blow's puzzle game Order of the Sinking Star, which grew over a decade into roughly 1,400 puzzles.

CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you're merely licensing it(polygon.com)

163 points by sxp 2 years ago | 72 comments

Palworld fans concerned after Nintendo issues surprise takedown(gamingbible.com)

17 points by ajdude 2 years ago | 11 comments

Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game published(polygon.com)

331 points by musha68k 2 years ago | 94 comments

Polygon article about the publication of GHQ, a long-lost wargame board game designed by author Kurt Vonnegut, including a publisher interview.

Fuck it, make it anyway(joelotter.com)

504 points by JayOtter 1 month ago | 495 comments

A personal blog essay by indie game developer Joel Auterson encouraging people to make their creative projects anyway despite doubts.

VVVVVV Source Code(github.com)

385 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 72 comments

GitHub repository by Terry Cavanagh hosting the source code of the indie platformer game VVVVVV, with desktop and mobile versions.

Helping wikis move away from Fandom(weirdgloop.org)

1064 points by creatonez 2 years ago | 473 comments

Weird Gloop blog post explaining why it now hosts the official League of Legends Wiki and plans to help more game wikis leave Fandom.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

I love software rendering(jamesfmackenzie.com)

337 points by speckx 10 days ago | 212 comments

A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.