Games, games, and Vincent

The gamification of everything

2022-12-16 — Vincent Leeuw

Hon offers a more technical formulation: Working as a Turker essentially means living “below the API,” or application programming interface. As he writes, “If …

24/7 Twitch

2022-12-14 — Vincent Leeuw

Across a broad range of streamers—gamers, dancers, political commentators, or those “just chatting”—it’s common to spend eight, 10, or 12 hours per day on …

A museum dedicated to mistranslated Japanese phrases

A museum dedicated to mistranslated Japanese phrases

2022-12-10 — Vincent Leeuw

The pop-up museum, being held at Tokyo’s UltraSuperNew Gallery in Harajuku, features some classics such as “please urinate with precision and elegance” and …

Armored Souls VI

2022-12-10 — Vincent Leeuw

In case you weren't hyped yet for Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, here's VaatiVidya doing his lore-magic on the little info that's out there. Damn, he's …

Dungeons & Dragons executives think “the brand is really under monetised”

2022-12-10 — Vincent Leeuw

Ao save us all… She and Cocks spent the next nine minutes explaining how Wizards of the Coast might solve this corporate conundrum, and much of the initial …

I like bulky bots and I cannot lie

I like bulky bots and I cannot lie

2022-12-10 — Vincent Leeuw

Since October 13 artist Alex Pelayre has been sharing his concept art for the cancelled Transformers: Heavy Metal game that was being developed by Niantic …

Armored Core VI

2022-12-09 — Vincent Leeuw

Time to mech a.