Brian Crecente

(Re) intro time. I run a consultancy for video games, tech, and toys. Clients include Epic Games and LEGO! You may also know me as the founder of Kotaku, cofounder of Polygon, video games editor at Rolling Stone and Variety. I still write, but mostly for clients and my column. game.substack.com

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Samsung’s head of product told me the AI-driven memory shortage is squeezing TVs too, and the company can’t keep raising prices. Its answer: lean on ads, services and games. And your current TV probably won’t run what’s coming next. game.substack.com/p/samsungs-f...

I'd expect more knowledge of history and the sciences from an overcooked hot dog.

Hey friends, I'm in a tough spot - If you know of anyone needing a Technical Artist please hit me up. I've about a month to find an apartment and things are getting pretty real. Open to anything! 17 years experience in the industry, and know enough #UnrealEngine to be called "the Unreal Girl". <3

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

Decided to go simple this Halloween

Check it out and tell me what you hate

New data toy. *Still very much in dev

Fascinating microsoft.gcs-web.com/node/35396/h...

“Blood, horror, and sexuality.” That’s the brief Netmarble Neo built Vampir around. The studio explains why it killed the healer class and how the game is avoiding Korea’s early content crunch in the West. store.epicgames.com/news/vampir-...

I'm going to have to steal my grandson’s shoes.

I'm probably doing this no matter the response. But I'm thinking of adding a paid level to my newsletter. I'd still do the monthly free feature. The paid would be a look at one of the systems in my 250 or so handheld collection, twice a month. Would you pay $5 or so for that?

I'm probably doing this no matter the response. But I'm thinking of adding a paid level to my newsletter. I'd still do the monthly free feature. The paid would be a look at one of the systems in my 250 or so handheld collection, twice a month. Would you pay $5 or so for that?

Speaking of horror obsession. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Amazing how this rotates between comics, movies, music and video games.

Lovely view of Canada across the river

Fool me once...

Can't wait for all the bubble pops and industries begging for government intervention.

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Very proud of my big brother brookhavenlocaltoday.com/jennifer-ann...

Creative Assembly addresses Shogun issue, details AI policy community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/to...

Happy Friday!!

At this point they're just making shit up to sell to their billionaire friends.

I had a dream that a bunch of companies that were failing hired me to help. I ended up firing all the CEOs who were each making millions and it saved the companies. I wonder what it means.

Feels a lot like tokenism

A note from my daughter-in-law about my grandson tonight. 🥲

What I love about the Tokenpocalypse is that it really underscores the gap between what the C-suite wants AI to be used for and what AI is actually good at. It's good at coverting PDFs into slide decks. They want it to convert FTEs into budget cuts. www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

Yesterday: Warren Spector justifiably furious about how f'd up the razing of Bioware is Tonight: Warren's in Brooklyn talking with us about his career, and probably also all this f'd up #!(*% extractive consolidation going on? Bring your questions ALSO at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter see you there

The latest from my still-in-development hypetracker: The top ten most hyped Unreal and Unity games.

I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but a lot of times wishlisting is just page marking a game for when it goes on sale. It doesn't mean they're buying at launch

I'm looking to hire a Japanese-English translator to do a very small amount of work related to something for my book. It is probably 30 minutes of work and I will pay. If you have any leads, send them my way please either by responding here or emailing me (damon.beres@gmail.com) ☀️

Uncle Matter has a very particular set of skills and now it's coming for them.

Steam Next Fest pick of the day: Pool of Madness. It's Balatro meets pool on a ship from hell complete with a gun, skulls, and dead fish.

It's hard to state how incredibly stupid MAGA supporters are. They will believe this

Steam Next Fest pick of the day: Pool of Madness. It's Balatro meets pool on a ship from hell complete with a gun, skulls, and dead fish.

North Carolina’s Democratic governor warns that the absentee ballot rejection rate is twice as high as in 2022 thanks to last-minute changes by Republicans. He recommends voting in person if you can (early voting is even better!) wcti12.com/news/local/g...

Heavy recommend. Few in the biz know how to review a phone the way Allison does.

Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff just told Putin he is a humanitarian. This is completely fucking insane.

I like how remasters sort of reward you for never getting to THAT game in your backlog.

We chatted with the folks working on the remaster of The Wolf Among Us. store.epicgames.com/news/wolf-am...

According to my research, about 36 percent of the 7,236 games currently live on Steam's Next Fest have an AI Generated Content Disclosure. Ironically, I used my AI to manually search the store page of every game in the sale to get this number. (It's 2,504).

When is ai AI? Or more explicitly when is AI bad AI?

Ladies and gentlemen, the POTUS.