At The Hollywood Reporter, Benjamin Svetkey writes about Amazon’s acquisition of and plans for James Bond. “‘Don’t let anybody else screw it up,’ Cubby Broccoli warned his children before he died. ‘You can screw it up if you want to, but don’t let other people screw it up.’ […]
Bitches On Comics talks to filmmaker Vera Drew about her film, The People’s Joker! “Vera Drew joins us to discuss her indie feature film The People’s Joker! We get into using comic book characters to tell autobiographical stories, the film’s unconventional path to distribution, and turning a personal […]
Friend of the Gutter Brian Kirby urges media companies, publishers, agencies and agents to leave X. His analysis and advice is worth considering for more industries and individuals as well. “I’ve been in Marketing with a capital M for a couple of decades, and have worked on large-scale […]
Larian’s Swen Vincke has a lot of interesting things to say not only about Baldur’s Gate 3 and what Larian will be developing next, but about managing game development, which is applicable to other kinds of creative work, and about getting Larian’s team out of Russia when Russia […]
At IGN, Rebekah Valentine interviews developers who lost their jobs in the recent game industry layoffs about the impact on their lives and the industry. “I reached out to impacted developers to try and answer the heavy, complex question of why this was happening in the first place. […]
At Pluralistic, Cory Doctorow has some thoughts. “When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they invite both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by […]
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