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Simon Carless
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Founder, @GameDiscoverCo. Board @GameHistoryOrg. Newsletter: newsletter.gamediscover.co (Not on X any more!)
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    Simon Carless
    @simoncarless
    Feb 4, 2025
    Stopping posting on this platform - check GameDiscoverCo on BlueSky - bsky.app/profile/gamedi… - for further updates. Thx!
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    GameDiscoverCo (@gamediscoverco.bsky.social)
    We're an agency based around one simple issue: how do players find, buy and enjoy your PC or console game? http://www.gamediscover.co
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    Simon Carless
    @simoncarless
    Jun 29, 2023
    PSA: Valve has been quietly banning newly submitted Steam games using AI-created art assets - if submitters can't prove they have rights for the assets used to train the algorithms: reddit.com/r/aigamedev/co…
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    Simon Carless
    @simoncarless
    May 3, 2021
    Want to know how much $ the devs of those 'free' Epic Games Store games got, & how many copies were grabbed? Here's the first 9 months to September 2019. 👀
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    Simon Carless
    @simoncarless
    Apr 28, 2021
    Outer Wilds fans, looks like some DLC ('Echoes Of The Eye') unexpectedly popped up in Steam records: steamdb.info/app/1622100/
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    Simon Carless
    @simoncarless
    Jun 20, 2020
    What happens if you run BJ Blazkowicz (Wolfenstein 3D) through the Face Depixelizer neutral network. Dying.
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    Denis
    @tg_bomze
    Jun 20, 2020
    Replying to @Rob__Milliken and @h_bash
    With default settings, I got this result.
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    Simon Carless
    @simoncarless
    Feb 25, 2020
    'Japanese video game designers sitting at their desks in the '90s' is my new aesthetic: shmuplations.com/nextgen/
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    Simon Carless
    @simoncarless
    May 28, 2019
    Don't mind me, just getting warmed up for a possible Watch Dogs 3 announce at E3 by consuming the silliest memes.
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    Simon Carless
    @simoncarless
    Jul 21, 2020
    Celebrating Nintendo's consoles via miniature art pieces - amazing work from @tanaka_tatsuya. (Via: blog.attractmo.de/post/623753169….)
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    Simon Carless
    @simoncarless
    Jun 29, 2023
    Replying to @simoncarless
    Update: looks like AI-created text is also being flagged in some cases:
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    Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie
    @GreyAlien
    Jun 29, 2023
    Replying to @GreyAlien
    6) It's not just art, it's text too (source trusted by me):
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    Simon Carless
    @simoncarless
    Jan 4, 2024
    Steam just added 'Boomer Shooter' as an official tag (OK boomer!): store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Boomer…
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    Simon Carless
    @simoncarless
    Nov 14, 2018
    Great anecdote from Yu Suzuki about how they set the color palette for Space Harrier: shmuplations.com/spaceharrier/
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    Simon Carless
    @simoncarless
    Jan 6, 2019
    The entire history of video games by platform, visualized by @MobyGames, Jan. 2019 version: mobygames.com/forums/dga,2/d…
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    Simon Carless
    @simoncarless
    Aug 20, 2024
    How China-specific is interest in Black Myth: Wukong? A lot: @gamediscoverco's current estimate of its Steam country split for players is 88.1% China, 3% U.S., 1.6% Hong Kong, 1% Japan.
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    Simon Carless
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    May 30, 2019
    Uh wait, so the 'cute' delivery bots carrying food you sometimes see in Berkeley don't use AI for navigation - each one is being piloted remotely from Colombia? Boggle:
    Kiwibots win fans at UC Berkeley as they deliver fast food at slow speeds
    From sfchronicle.com