BrendanSinclair

BrendanSinclair, 3 days ago to random

If I were making a video game around a motorcycle brand some people still associate with white supremacist biker gangs, I might have left words like "race" and "rally" out of the title entirely, and I definitely wouldn't have made the box art look like it says "Race Rally" from afar.

BrendanSinclair, 6 days ago to random

"Bro, good job! I will kill you soon."

https://www.tumblr.com/contextfreepatentart/750281553715888128?source=share

mcc, 12 days ago to random

Wait a minute

Toronto local news article posted today https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/equinox-bridge-toronto-waterfront-1.7195397

Star Trek "Strange New Worlds" s2e3, "Lake Ontario Bridge", claimed in a time travel episode to have been built in the 2020s https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/4/47/Lake_Ontario_Bridge.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20230629223102&path-prefix=en

BrendanSinclair, 19 days ago to random

Few things quiet my soul and make me reflect on the good in life like this bit of patent art.

https://www.tumblr.com/contextfreepatentart/749103840851279872?source=share

BrendanSinclair, 21 days ago to random

Today's a good day to start following Context-Free Patent Art. The next week is going to be going back through the archives for some of my favorite posts, a lot of which are at least a decade old and don't make any more sense now than they did back then.

contextfreepatentart.tumblr.com

BrendanSinclair, 22 days ago to random

Nintendo patented this controller design in 1994. I don't think I've ever seen it before. Does anyone know if they ever actually used it?

BrendanSinclair, 22 days ago to random

This Week in Business is about the ridiculous TikTok ban in the US, and how the same thing could happen to Fortnite, League of Legends and more

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-us-is-banning-tiktok-could-fortnite-and-league-of-legends-be-next-this-week-in-business

BrendanSinclair, 23 days ago to random

April's 10 Years Ago This Month column is about that the beforetimes, when a lot of people thought Amazon and Google and Apple would have no trouble taking over the console space once they decided to take it on

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/amazon-google-threaten-to-take-over-the-living-room-10-years-ago-this-month

BrendanSinclair, 25 days ago to random

Obscene that we live in a world where so many exist forever on the precipice of financial ruin but people like this are just awash in money.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/04/19/gundo-bros-silicon-valley-military

BrendanSinclair, 26 days ago to random

Strange to me that THQ Nordic gets lumped in with the indie brand instead of the AAA crew. Guess they looked at that catalog and realized there were reasons THQ didn't make it as a AAA publisher.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/embracer-group-splits-into-three-everything-you-need-to-know

BrendanSinclair, 28 days ago to random

I'm actually shocked it's only 20% because it certainly feels like more.

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7086400

BrendanSinclair, 29 days ago to random

This week's column is about the Take-Two layoffs, how Gearbox and Zynga fit into it, and how TTWO is now more of a mobile publisher than a PC/console one

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/a-double-take-on-take-twos-layoffs-this-week-in-business

BrendanSinclair, 1 month ago to random

I published my column about the awful layoffs at one Prytania Media studio just in time for the company to shut down another of its studios

The column: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/taking-layoffs-too-lightly-this-week-in-business

Possibility Space shutting down: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/possibility-space-shuts-down

BrendanSinclair, 1 month ago to random

Back to writing This Week in Business after a few weeks off, and we're talking about AI hype being bolstered by stuff that really works (but maybe isn't AI the way people think of it)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ais-biggest-triumphs-are-not-ai-this-week-in-business

BrendanSinclair, 1 month ago to random

This is what a young me would have drawn if asked to create a Batman image in the style of Rob Liefeld.

"Got some empty space? Put some muscle lines in there! Does it make it look like his left arm has two elbows? Not my problem!"

BrendanSinclair, 1 month ago to random

If you've figured out how to put effective guardrails around generative AI to make sure the info it gives is accurate and responsible, it seems to me like the only thing the AI is doing is creating filler text between the things that have actual value.

BrendanSinclair, 1 month ago to random

10 Years Ago This Month, VR was about to change the world while Oculus' Palmer Luckey and Minecraft creator Marcus 'Notch' Persson were two of the most beloved personalities in gaming.

Things have changed.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/vr-hype-soars-as-facebook-buys-oculus-10-years-ago-this-month

BrendanSinclair, 2 months ago to random

Seeing a big ol' bump in blockchain gaming pitches lately. This may be green shoots for a games industry recovery because it means fools with money are once again willing to throw it behind even the worst ideas out there.

mcc, 1 year ago to random

Hey Fediverse today is my birthday

If you would like to do something for me for my birthday, will you please send me a picture (or recording) of something broken (or not working correctly)?

You can reply, or post it with #glitch4andi and I will see it.

Thank you <3