Use It or Lose It
Sachin Hingoo looks at a couple of ‘lost’ films and implores you to hold onto what you love.
“Break Up with Your X”
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 […]
Smoke and Mirrorshades: Barbecue and Cyberpunk
This week’s Guest Star is long time friend of the Gutter Jared Shurin. Jared is the editor of The Big Book of Cyberpunk. His previous anthologies have been finalists for (and usually lost) the Hugo Awards, World Fantasy Award, British Science Fiction Awards, and British Fantasy Awards. He’s […]
Interview with Larian Studios’ Swen Vincke
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 […]
“The Floor Just Keeps Falling Out”
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. […]
“Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification”
Cory Doctorow has more to say about enshittification. “So what’s enshittification and why did it catch fire? It’s my theory explaining how the internet was colonized by platforms, and why all those platforms are degrading so quickly and thoroughly, and why it matters – and what we can […]
The Cultural Gutter 