Does anyone know how to drive this thing?

I was born in the early ’90s, and thanks to a life marked by periodic socioeconomic turmoil, I’ve come to accept—as any reasonable person would—that blatant dysfunction is the hallmark of a healthy and developed economy. The free market doesn’t have seatbelts or brakes, and that’s why it works. If there’s any wreckage that might…

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2 months after releasing Zero Parades, Studio ZA/UM is laying off employees: ‘Its commercial performance has not enabled us to sustain a studio of our current size’

Two months after the release of Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, the followup to its stunning detective RPG Disco Elysium, Studio ZA/UM says the game hasn’t sold as well as needed, and as a result it’s laying off employees. “While Zero Parades: For Dead Spies was released to critical acclaim, its commercial performance has not…

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Retiring Valve programmer says ‘at least one’ of the studio’s beloved game modes was made in secret to avoid pushback from peers

Programmer Christopher Green has had a long career in the games industry, with a development history that included Amiga’s Flight Simulators, Ultima Underworld, and Magic: The Gathering Online before ultimately working at and retiring from Valve—twice. Green had previously made a six-year attempt at retirement starting in 2017, but returned to Valve for another go…

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