Oh boy, it's time for another instalment of What I Do, our regular feature showcasing just what it is that individuals across the video game industry actually do for a living .

This week we've got Michal Napora, someone who has done not one job recently, but two. And while both have something broadly to do with selling video games, they're also different enough to count as two hats, which is a lot of hats to be wearing in video games in 2025.

In “Planetary Consciousness,” Alan Moore’s introduction to the 2000s DC comic by Warren Ellis, the legendary author didn’t just herald a new era of comics—he forecasted a shift in their audience. “The underlying human tastes and audience demands on which we built the comic field have altered in the flux of things, within the readership if not within the books themselves. The way people think and see things has moved on. The massive scaffolding of values where the comic field was

As a teenager I raided my older brother’s CD collection. When he found me out, I was terrified he’d be angry, but instead he handed me a stack of records. He noticed I was checking out Nine Inch Nails, and told me I could have his albums. As a moody teenager, I couldn’t have received a better gift—a musical refuge from the stress of school and my burgeoning issues with depression. Watching the recent remaster of the movie Linda Linda Linda this weekend brought

It’s here. It’s real. It . If you even casually follow video game news, you already know I’m talking about Hollow Knight: Silksong . The bug-tastic metroidvania has captured the public’s imagination like few indies before it, displacing everything except Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 on Steam’s list of most-played games. It is a phenomenon, and in that regard, singular by modern standards. But while they didn’t always post these kinds of numbers

In February, Civilization VII released to what feels like (the internet wasn't around in the 90s!) the worst reception in series history, its major new features dividing fans and distancing the game from what many have long loved about it . Now, , many of them are being laid off.

After a number of former Firaxis staff like artists, writers and producers, predominantly from the Civ VII team, began posting earlier today that they'd been let go, that there had been a "

Last year I wrote about a general malaise in the sports gaming world , brought about mostly by the fact that the relentless need to release a new game every year--colliding with the ever-increasing budgets and complexity of AAA gaming--was draining the genre of innovation and chances at fresh starts.

Today, let's talk about something more positive! A rare exception to the annual grind last season was the storied Football Manager series, which botched its transition to an all-new engine--and a

Over the past several years, indie developers have raised more than $1 million for Palestinian aid; in 2021, the Indie Bundle for Palestinian Aid raised nearly $900,000 for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, and in 2024, the Palestinian Relief Bundle raised nearly $600,000 for Palestine Children's Relief Fund. More than a year has passed since Israel’s renewed assault on Palestinian people in which tens of thousands of

“I do not need another coffee device” is what I told myself recently. I have already spent countless hours powerfully disassembling, powder coating, and modifying an off-the-shelf espresso machine, and it serves me perfectly. I have an Aeropress, a pour-over, and a beautiful, gothic moka pot. And yet when I saw what people were doing with the OXO Brew Rapid Brewer, I sighed, because someone had finally gone after Aeropress, and succeeded in making something new.

The OXO Brew