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Brian Crecente

@crecenteb
21 posts
2025-10-15
It's likely that the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally will land to conflicting perspectives. https://game.substack.com/... [image]
2025-10-15 View on X
The Verge

ROG Xbox Ally review: great grips, good speakers, and Windows is easier to control with joysticks, but worse performance than the Steam Deck and a half-baked UI

What does “Xbox” mean?  Some might say it can only refer to a box-shaped Microsoft game machine.

2023-07-14
Wooof. That's terrible. AI is coming for us, but only if we let it.
2023-07-14 View on X
The Verge

SAG-AFTRA: AMPTP's AI proposal lets studios scan a background actor to create a digital likeness, for a day's pay, for perpetual use without consent or pay

During today's press conference in which Hollywood actors confirmed that they were going on strike, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland …

2022-12-16
Elon Musk banned the official #Mastodon account. This is days after marking some links to Mastodon as sensitive. Loving the Freedom of Speech, Elon. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-16 View on X
NBC News

Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”

Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.

Elon Musk banned the official #Mastodon account. This is days after marking some links to Mastodon as sensitive. Loving the Freedom of Speech, Elon. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-16 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter suspends Mastodon's account and prevents links to Mastodon servers from being tweeted or added to profile bios, calling them “harmful” and “malware”

A day after Twitter crafted a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk's private jet, the fallout continues.

2022-10-01
Who needs coffee when you can read Jason Calacanis and Elon Musk fantasizing about laying off Twitter employees and stuffing the service with subscriptions. https://www.documentcloud.org/ ...
2022-10-01 View on X
Big Technology

A roundup of Elon Musk's newly released text messages show the inner workings of Silicon Valley dealmaking and how Musk lost interest in his Twitter acquisition

Newly released text messages shine a light on how tech's most powerful do business — and perhaps why Musk lost interest in Twitter.

2022-09-02
Just a reminder that the new platform arms race is about storefronts, not hardware. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
2022-09-02 View on X
Bloomberg

The UK's CMA says Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition will require an in-depth review and gives Microsoft a September 8 deadline to offer remedies

Microsoft Corp.'s planned $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard Inc. will be sent for an in-depth review unless …

2022-09-01
Just a reminder that the new platform arms race is about storefronts, not hardware. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
2022-09-01 View on X
Bloomberg

The UK's CMA says Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition will require an in-depth review and gives Microsoft a September 8 deadline to offer remedies

Microsoft Corp.'s planned $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard Inc. will be sent for an in-depth review unless …

2022-08-19
Embrace Group now has more than 100(!) subsidiaries. https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-19 View on X
Financial Times

Swedish gaming group Embracer Group reports Q1 sales rose 107% YoY to ~$681M and announces six acquisitions, including IP for The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit

Anna Gross / Financial Times :

2022-08-18
Embrace Group now has more than 100(!) subsidiaries. https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-18 View on X
Financial Times

Swedish gaming group Embracer Group reports Q1 sales rose 107% YoY to ~$681M and announces six acquisitions, including IP for The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit

Swedish company announces six acquisitions and posts a rise in first-quarter sales and profits

2022-03-12
Sir, this is a Wendy's https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-12 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Apple and Google removed Kremlin critic Navalny's app in September after FSB agents came to top executives' homes and threatened to take them to prison

Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September …

Sir, this is a Wendy's https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Russia moves to designate Meta as an “extremist organization”; source says WhatsApp won't be affected as it is a means of communication

WhatsApp is the most popular messenger in Russia, it takes up nearly 60% of all messenger internet traffic. We are talking tens of millions of people having limited access to comms...

2022-01-05
There's a new NVIDIA GeForce card coming out you won't be able to buy. RTX 3090 Ti has 24GB GDDR6X Ram at 21 Gbps. https://www.theverge.com/...
2022-01-05 View on X
VentureBeat

Nvidia debuts RTX 3070 Ti, up to 70% faster than 2070, and 3080 Ti, coming February 1 to laptops that start at $1.5K and $2.5K respectively, and teases 3090 Ti

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :

2021-06-05
Facebook continues to monetize pain, suffering, and lies, all while its leaders pretend to have a shred of morality. Today they announced Trump's return to Facebook just in time to wreak havoc on another presidential election. https://about.fb.com/...
2021-06-05 View on X
About Facebook

In response to Oversight Board ruling, Facebook suspends Trump's accounts until January 7, 2023, and says it will then reconsider suspension if conditions allow

but not until at least 2023 Transparency Center : Counting strikes  —  If you post content that goes against the Facebook Community Standards … Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain : Face...

2021-03-24
Montreal's game dev scene continues to blow up https://www.amazongames.com/ ...
2021-03-24 View on X
The Verge

Amazon says it is opening a new game studio in Montreal, which will create original AAA games, and the studio will be led by the creators of Rainbow Six Siege

It's Amazon's fourth studio  —  Amazon is illustrating its commitment to game development with a new studio opening …

2021-02-28
Some great insight here. I'd add that there's also probably an issue of lost opportunity costs for both companies as well. https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-28 View on X
Wired

Sources detail Google's troubles with game development as the company couldn't stomach the complicated creative process amid Stadia's poor streaming numbers

Great read by @cecianasta. https://www.wired.com/... Brian Crecente / @crecenteb : Some great insight here. I'd add that there's also probably an issue of lost opportunity costs fo...

2021-02-27
Some great insight here. I'd add that there's also probably an issue of lost opportunity costs for both companies as well. https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-27 View on X
Bloomberg

Inside Google Stadia's failure as sources say it missed targets for controller sales and MAUs by hundreds of thousands after spending tens of millions on games

from the gaudy reveal event to its implosion in a year when the gaming industry was doing record business—was ridiculous. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Zach Laidlaw / @ztlaidlaw : ...

2020-10-12
An interesting update on Cuba's SNET, which I wrote about years ago for Polygon: The life and death of SNET, Havana's alternative internet https://restofworld.org/... via @restofworld
2020-10-12 View on X
Rest of World

A look at Havana's SNET, the “street network” of Cuba's capital which at its peak had ~100K IP addresses, and its demise as state-run WiFi and 3G networks arise

2020-10-11
An interesting update on Cuba's SNET, which I wrote about years ago for Polygon: The life and death of SNET, Havana's alternative internet https://restofworld.org/... via @restofworld
2020-10-11 View on X
Rest of World

A look at Havana's SNET, the “street network” of Cuba's capital which at its peak had ~100K IP addresses, and its demise as state-run WiFi and 3G networks arise

As Cuba sluggishly got its population online, the shadow internet developed by volunteers provided a lifeline for thousands of people. Tweets: @crecenteb , @peterguest , @ghoshworl...

2020-02-26
Oh hey, does that mean Disney might start making games again? https://twitter.com/...
2020-02-26 View on X
The Walt Disney Company

Bob Chapek has been named CEO of The Walt Disney Company, effective immediately; Bob Iger will serve as executive chairman through 2021

Robert A. Iger Assumes Role of Executive Chairman through 2021 Mr. Iger Will Direct the Company's Creative Endeavors Mr. Chapek Brings 27 Years …

2019-12-14
All consoles are basically PCs. The change here is that the new design seems to be echoing cloud hardware (Alexa etc...) and not outdated media players (DVD, VHS etc) https://twitter.com/...
2019-12-14 View on X
The Verge

Microsoft's next-gen “Project Scarlett” Xbox to be called Xbox Series X and available holiday 2020 with support for frame rates of up to 120 fps and ray tracing

Xbox now looks like a PC  —  Microsoft's next-generation Xbox is officially called Xbox Series X. Microsoft revealed …