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Over 20 years ago, CCP Games released EVE Online, a massively multiplayer space game, promising huge fleet battles, and an open, player-controlled economy. But within months, that economy was headed for disaster. This week's guest is Ramin Shokrizade, who later wrote on GameDeveloper – back when it was still
May 13, 2026
What do we talk about when we talk about 4X? We think about abstract systems, resource management, efficiency, growth... But what about all the invisible things attached to eXploitation, and eXtermination? Mary Flanagan is a game designer and academic, and the author of Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and
April 28, 2026
Ross Scott is the face of the Stop Killing Games movement, which seeks to ensure games don't completely die when a developer or publisher ends support, but rather, enters an end-of-life plan that makes it reasonably playable – after which, a compliant gamemaker has no more liability. Following a
April 21, 2026