Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin While it’s a great (and necessary) move that Google has chosen to refund all players hardware and software purchases through Google Stadia ahead of the cloud gaming service shutting down, one thing they do not seem to have considered is the effect it has on developers who, up until this very moment, were still making games for the platform. It sounds like Google did not communicate anything about Stadia’s pending shutdown to any developers, presumably to avoid leaks, but that has resulted in a lot of developers, big and small, being thrown into the lurch. The main group this has affected is a whole lot of indie developers who do not really have the resources to develop for extra platforms that are suddenly ceasing to exist. That’s a lot of time and effort and money that could have been saved had they known this was coming. Others still are owed money from Google and now question if they’ll be reimbursed: … [Read more...] about Google’s Stadia Shutdown Has Caught Stadia Developers Totally Off Guard
Book Review: Alex Epstein’s Excellent and Essential ‘Fossil Future’
Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin In his wonderful book American Happiness and Its Discontents , George Will wrote that Founding Father John Adams began each day with a tankard of beer. The anecdote read as incongruous. How could Adams have been so productive in light of how his days commenced? In a subsequent conversation with the author, he underscored that the U.S. was formerly a “drinking nation,” which we both marveled at for it not mirroring the present. This came to mind while reading Alex Epstein’s essential and excellent new book, Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas – Not Less . Epstein seemed to unearth the why behind Adams’s prodigious early morning drinking: unhealthy water. As Epstein writes about a third of the way through what will now be referred to as Fossil , “Drinking water for most people at most times, has been naturally dirty and or distant.” While the idealistic among us … [Read more...] about Book Review: Alex Epstein’s Excellent and Essential ‘Fossil Future’