Samuel Axon
@samuelaxon.bsky.social
Writer/editor covering software development, AI, tech, and gaming at Ars Technica and beyond by day. Game dev, author, and screenwriter by night. I try to keep things positive!
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Hotel Infinity will launch on November 13, 2025 for #PSVR2 and #MetaQuest
It's a roomscale #VR game with impossible geometry, where you explore a hotel by actually walking
Here's a behind the scenes look at how we made the game: blog.playstation.com/2025/10/22/a...
Website: hotelinfinityvr.com
It's a roomscale #VR game with impossible geometry, where you explore a hotel by actually walking
Here's a behind the scenes look at how we made the game: blog.playstation.com/2025/10/22/a...
Website: hotelinfinityvr.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Hotel Infinity will launch on November 13, 2025 for #PSVR2 and #MetaQuest
It's a roomscale #VR game with impossible geometry, where you explore a hotel by actually walking
Here's a behind the scenes look at how we made the game: blog.playstation.com/2025/10/22/a...
Website: hotelinfinityvr.com
It's a roomscale #VR game with impossible geometry, where you explore a hotel by actually walking
Here's a behind the scenes look at how we made the game: blog.playstation.com/2025/10/22/a...
Website: hotelinfinityvr.com
What’s wrong with AAA games? The development of the next Battlefield has answers. arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
What’s wrong with AAA games? The development of the next Battlefield has answers.
EA insiders describe stress and setbacks in a project that’s too big to fail.
arstechnica.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
What’s wrong with AAA games? The development of the next Battlefield has answers. arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
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Indies - now is a *very* good time to put your Switch 1 game on sale.
The Switch 2 eShop loads for the first time with a very visible button saying how many of your wishlist games are on sale. eShop visibility is much better. Benefit from SW2 launch even without a native port!
The Switch 2 eShop loads for the first time with a very visible button saying how many of your wishlist games are on sale. eShop visibility is much better. Benefit from SW2 launch even without a native port!
June 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Indies - now is a *very* good time to put your Switch 1 game on sale.
The Switch 2 eShop loads for the first time with a very visible button saying how many of your wishlist games are on sale. eShop visibility is much better. Benefit from SW2 launch even without a native port!
The Switch 2 eShop loads for the first time with a very visible button saying how many of your wishlist games are on sale. eShop visibility is much better. Benefit from SW2 launch even without a native port!
Shadows is the most polished Assassin's Creed game in a long time. It's OK to delay games!
arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the dad rock of video games, and I love it
It also proves AAA publishers should be more willing to delay their games.
arstechnica.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Shadows is the most polished Assassin's Creed game in a long time. It's OK to delay games!
arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
If and when the US TikTok ban goes through, I’m pretty sure it will be the among the largest-scale destructions of art in human history, and maybe the biggest single-event loss of income for creative people ever. So, whatever you think of the other issues at play, that really sucks.
January 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
If and when the US TikTok ban goes through, I’m pretty sure it will be the among the largest-scale destructions of art in human history, and maybe the biggest single-event loss of income for creative people ever. So, whatever you think of the other issues at play, that really sucks.
OK, I quit Twitter without replacing it and honestly felt that improved my life. But with the recent influx at Bluesky, I’m trying this one more time. If my feed devolves into people screaming into the void about politics again I’ll unplug it again though. Hoping things’ll stay positive and healthy!
December 8, 2024 at 10:15 PM
OK, I quit Twitter without replacing it and honestly felt that improved my life. But with the recent influx at Bluesky, I’m trying this one more time. If my feed devolves into people screaming into the void about politics again I’ll unplug it again though. Hoping things’ll stay positive and healthy!
Is anyone else’s comforting doomscrolling alternative tapping “Random Pick” on HomeOfTheUnderdogs.net? Just me!
Come on, MS-DOS, those were the days!
Come on, MS-DOS, those were the days!
December 21, 2023 at 6:56 AM
Is anyone else’s comforting doomscrolling alternative tapping “Random Pick” on HomeOfTheUnderdogs.net? Just me!
Come on, MS-DOS, those were the days!
Come on, MS-DOS, those were the days!
I don't like New York. Everyone knows I'm an LA guy. I feel like just about everything New York does, LA or Chicago does better, and with less trash and presumption.
But I will say this: it's 3 AM, you just closed out a bar, you're standing on the street in the East Village...
But I will say this: it's 3 AM, you just closed out a bar, you're standing on the street in the East Village...
November 11, 2023 at 8:19 AM
I don't like New York. Everyone knows I'm an LA guy. I feel like just about everything New York does, LA or Chicago does better, and with less trash and presumption.
But I will say this: it's 3 AM, you just closed out a bar, you're standing on the street in the East Village...
But I will say this: it's 3 AM, you just closed out a bar, you're standing on the street in the East Village...
I'm looking for experienced freelancers to write features about gaming and tech for Ars Technica.
Extra emphasis on 80s/90s retro tech, open source, software dev, PC gaming, and geek culture for Gen X and older millennials, etc.
@ me if you're interested or know someone, or share if you might!
Extra emphasis on 80s/90s retro tech, open source, software dev, PC gaming, and geek culture for Gen X and older millennials, etc.
@ me if you're interested or know someone, or share if you might!
October 31, 2023 at 6:06 PM
I'm looking for experienced freelancers to write features about gaming and tech for Ars Technica.
Extra emphasis on 80s/90s retro tech, open source, software dev, PC gaming, and geek culture for Gen X and older millennials, etc.
@ me if you're interested or know someone, or share if you might!
Extra emphasis on 80s/90s retro tech, open source, software dev, PC gaming, and geek culture for Gen X and older millennials, etc.
@ me if you're interested or know someone, or share if you might!
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Huge news for ink users and those interested in trying it out!
UK developers the Chinese Room have just open sourced their Unreal Engine integration of the ink engine, that allows ink to be used in Blueprints.
UK developers the Chinese Room have just open sourced their Unreal Engine integration of the ink engine, that allows ink to be used in Blueprints.
The Chinese Room
The Chinese Room has 2 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
github.com
October 18, 2023 at 12:25 PM
Huge news for ink users and those interested in trying it out!
UK developers the Chinese Room have just open sourced their Unreal Engine integration of the ink engine, that allows ink to be used in Blueprints.
UK developers the Chinese Room have just open sourced their Unreal Engine integration of the ink engine, that allows ink to be used in Blueprints.
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deep space 9 is incredible because it’s about what if a shitty strip mall was an ancient religious site and also the pentagon
My body is not a temple its a deep space station occupying both a strategically pivotal location and also near an actual (celestial) temple.
October 1, 2023 at 2:10 AM
deep space 9 is incredible because it’s about what if a shitty strip mall was an ancient religious site and also the pentagon
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hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave
September 27, 2023 at 2:56 AM
hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave
This is exactly what every AI agreement should be.
The WGA has “established regulations for the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) on MBA-covered projects in the following ways:”
www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign...
www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign...
September 27, 2023 at 5:22 AM
This is exactly what every AI agreement should be.
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Ok, here’s what I’ve learned about UI design from learning to play the guitar:
Guitar on a guitar stand in the living room: practice almost every day
Guitar *in a case* on the same stand: never practice
Guitar on a guitar stand in the living room: practice almost every day
Guitar *in a case* on the same stand: never practice
September 27, 2023 at 1:57 AM
Ok, here’s what I’ve learned about UI design from learning to play the guitar:
Guitar on a guitar stand in the living room: practice almost every day
Guitar *in a case* on the same stand: never practice
Guitar on a guitar stand in the living room: practice almost every day
Guitar *in a case* on the same stand: never practice
I was today years old when I learned gamers were also today years old when they learned that almost all games just put a rain box around the player character or the camera.
(That’s one of those things I knew long before I ever got into development, I’m a bit surprised it’s new info to so many. 😆)
(That’s one of those things I knew long before I ever got into development, I’m a bit surprised it’s new info to so many. 😆)
September 26, 2023 at 5:38 PM
I was today years old when I learned gamers were also today years old when they learned that almost all games just put a rain box around the player character or the camera.
(That’s one of those things I knew long before I ever got into development, I’m a bit surprised it’s new info to so many. 😆)
(That’s one of those things I knew long before I ever got into development, I’m a bit surprised it’s new info to so many. 😆)
So sane, so measured, so insightful, so accurate... does this non-sensational and clear-eyed take on Baldur's Gate 3-Gate even belong on the internet? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
youtu.be/kpeicp7AvUI
youtu.be/kpeicp7AvUI
Welcome to AAA Larian! (Baldur's Gate 3)
Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmQy_HWuQC5MB2AXgkWr-dw/joinIf you prefer Patreon: https://patreon.com/MarkDarrahTh...
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August 22, 2023 at 6:00 PM
So sane, so measured, so insightful, so accurate... does this non-sensational and clear-eyed take on Baldur's Gate 3-Gate even belong on the internet? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
youtu.be/kpeicp7AvUI
youtu.be/kpeicp7AvUI
Well, it only took 20 years but I got there in my own damn time!
August 17, 2023 at 9:29 PM
Well, it only took 20 years but I got there in my own damn time!
The Hello Kitty Animal Crossing-like on Apple Arcade is way better than you’d expect it to be! Well done, Sunblink team!
August 14, 2023 at 3:29 PM
The Hello Kitty Animal Crossing-like on Apple Arcade is way better than you’d expect it to be! Well done, Sunblink team!
I quit Twitter about a year ago and while I missed having a window into the cool creative things people were doing, there was too much toxicity and performance and ego and it just was not a good force in my life after a point. I’m hopeful these reboots will have a better culture! Let’s find out…
August 14, 2023 at 3:26 PM
I quit Twitter about a year ago and while I missed having a window into the cool creative things people were doing, there was too much toxicity and performance and ego and it just was not a good force in my life after a point. I’m hopeful these reboots will have a better culture! Let’s find out…