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If The Games Industry Is Booming, Why Are Devs Losing Their Jobs?
An academic look at ongoing games industry job losses, and why they’re happening at all if the industry is as well off as it seems.
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Giving Your Friends Indie Games For Christmas Makes The Industry More Ethical And Fair
Giving your friends indie games for Christmas isn’t just a good idea, it also helps create a fairer, better games industry overall.
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Everyone Loves A Superhero Movie, But Why Do Comic Book Writers And Artists Get Left In The Dust?
When the new creative head of DC Studios, James Gunn, announced their upcoming slate of films and TV, it included many names you might expect: Superman, Batman, maybe even Swamp Thing. It also included some lesser-known and leftfield picks, such as the take-no-prisoners superhero team The Authority. The team’s co-creator, artist Bryan Hitch, found that…
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Netflix’s The Sandman Is An Unfaithful Adaptation, And That’s Perfectly Fine
Whether it’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Call the Midwife or, more recently, Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, most of us will have enjoyed a book-to-TV adaptation. In the process, we might also have had to endure a family member or friend smugly informing us that what we’re watching is, in fact, “nothing like the book”. Before we…