Mediavania
PC Gaming
China's Gacha Paradox
Why A Decade Of Extraction Made Chinese Players The Most Premium-Friendly Audience On Steam
Writer
Recognizing Patterns
25 indexed pieces
Writes forRecognizing Patterns
RPG
Sega: The Master System of Constant Reinvention?
Sega cancelled an $882 million future in the same year it turned nine birthdays into a business unit. That is not a coincidence. That is the plan.
PC Gaming
The Roguelite Cull Hasn’t Happened Yet. The Data Already Decided It.
Slay the Spire 2, Megabonk, and 33 Immortals aren’t survivors of a graveyard that doesn’t exist yet. They’re proof the mechanism is already running. A structural read on what mid-2026 data already con
AI & Gaming
Use AI to Build Your Game. Just Keep It Out of the Part Players Feel.
Iron Nest shipped with zero AI, Dragon Snacks put its AI in the build pipeline, and Valve’s own policy already explains why both of them won
PC Gaming
Steam Next Fest June 2026: Communities Won It, AI Disclosure Lost It
The largest Next Fest ever ran 8,682 games. A quarter of the field disclosed AI use; one cracked the top ten. The winners entered with communities already built. The October clock is running.
Industry
First Time User Experience: The 60 Seconds That Decide If Your Player Stays.
The first 60 seconds in a game are the most critical experience for a player. Capturing their attention within this time is the difference between a good and bad game
PC Gaming
How China Turned 90-Second Soap Operas Into a Billion-Dollar Game Genre
You Weren't Watching Microdrama. The Audience Deciding Your Steam Launch Was.
Culture
Glitch Productions Is Building Games for 2027 and Beyond
The Industry Spent Summer Fest Wishlisting Dads. An Australian Studio with 18mn YouTube subscriber is Building for the Ten-Year-Olds Whose Taste Is Hardening Right Now.
PC Gaming
Congratulations, You Ignored the Chinese Games Market. Here's What You Lost.
The China Multiplier, and the studios already winning while Western publishers monitor the market
Culture
Cozy Games Are Starting To Repeat Live Service's Mistake
Live service spent four years turning its own label into a warning. Cozy is on the same arc, four years behind.
Culture
Glitch Studios: How Two Brothers in a Sydney Bedroom Built the Operating System for Gen Alpha Entertainment
421 million views on a pilot. $1.7 million on a Kickstarter (fourth biggest in comics history). Netflix and Amazon distribution in 240 countries. Disney’s most acclaimed showrunner of the last decade
Culture
The Four Community Engines that Market Your Game
Push-marketing just cost Sony a billion dollars at Bungie. Three other engines are running the games that actually launched in 2026. Here's how to tell which one your studio is on.
AI & Gaming
The Studio × Tier Framework: Where Your Studio Actually Sits on the AI Map
AI didn't create your studio's biggest problem. It's about to reveal it.
Culture
I Told Investors, Publishers (and Pretty Much Everyone Else) That This Game Would Print Money
Dead as Disco’s zero-budget playbook, the Next Fest studios that took it further, and the three questions every indie founder needs to answer before launch day.
Game Development
The Engine Beneath the Magic Kingdom: Disney isn’t looking to buy Epic for Fortnite
Disney isn’t buying Epic for Fortnite. It’s buying the operating system it’s already built on.
AI & Gaming
Where AI Belongs (And Where It Doesn't)
What to Automate Without Guilt, What to Augment Carefully, and What to Protect Regardless of the Cost Savings.
AI & Gaming
The AI Cat Test: What Game Studios Get Wrong About Community Trust
What communities actually punish when AI assets ship without disclosure
PC Gaming
What Steam Spring Sale 2026 Actually Proved
$92M before the discounts started, one third of sales from China, and four AI controversies that couldn’t stop $500M. Here's what the numbers actually prove.
AI & Gaming
The Revenge of Pencilslop
The pro-AI crowd coined it as an insult. The games industry is about to find out why that backfired.
PC Gaming
Far Far West didn’t win Steam Next Fest. It harvested what it had already grown.
How a Small French Studio Built 536,000 Wishlists Before the Game Was Finished
PC Gaming
The Studios That Won Steam Next Fest Won It a Year Ago
3,500 demos, a gameable metric, and why community health is the only number that can't be manufactured
Industry
The Month That Does Not Move
Ramadan, gaming, and why the industry keeps is slowly catching up to the biggest synchronized audience on earth
Xbox
Microsoft Just Reset Xbox: Thirty Years of Over-Hubification Made It Inevitable
Over-hubification, the living room, and why the hub has to be unbuilt before it can be rebuilt
Industry
Tomb Raider, a 7.6 Earthquake, a Herniated Disc, While Living Out of a Minivan
Why I work in emerging markets, and why I’m never going to stop