A fan-made comic set in the Half-Life universe, with behind-the-scenes process posts from its colourist and essays on the series, notably Half-Life: Alyx. The writing mixes personal reflection with close reading of characters and game design.
Website: https://a-place-in-the-west.ghost.io/
A gaming-industry newsletter tracking venture capital, private equity and M&A deals alongside public gaming company stock moves. It combines weekly market recaps with data-driven valuation reports and funding analysis.
A developer blog with long-form technical posts on security and programming, including Minecraft server hardening, malware analysis of a fake game installer, and how game AI works. Posts include commands and runnable code, and cite primary sources such as vendor documentation and published research.
A personal blog-style newsletter mixing DIY computing projects, city-building game design, and reflections on class, privacy and autonomy. Readers get idiosyncratic first-person essays that connect hobby tech work with political and social commentary.
A personal newsletter mixing reflective essays on language, digital worlds and cultural theory with travel memoir from an island home and time studying in Seoul. Readers get a serialized exploration of how games like Minecraft can be spaces for imagining different ways of knowing, alongside anecdotes of everyday wandering.
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