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- Book review: Play Nice (2024)
- Some thoughts about Netease’s Seattle layoffs
- 2024 year in review
- Living with Post-Truth
- Black Myth: Wukong (2024)
- Chinese app stores ecosystem, revisited
- The futility of predictions (and a path for seizing success)
- 2023 year in review
- Final Fantasy XVI (2023)
- GDC 2023 impressions
- Marvel Snap (2022)
- 2022 year in review
- The “skill-based matchmaking” backlash
- Summer travels
- The curious case of the game “Sheep a Sheep”
- Quick thoughts on the Xbox – Riot deal
- Elden Ring (2022)
- 2021 year in review
- Communications as gameplay
- F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch (2021)
- Death’s Door (2021)
- Hades (2020)
- 2020 year in review
- Genshin Impact (2020)
- Epic vs. App Stores
- The Last of Us Part II
- 设计师的执念
- (Early) Thoughts on Valorant
- Platform alliances and fragmented user experiences
- 漫谈内容渠道与平台
- Valve的平台困境
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands (2017)
- Annual parties in China
- Thoughts about 2019
- 从Stadia出师不利说起
- Assessing China’s game development capabilities
- New Adventures
- Control (2019) review
- Photo magic
- Archero
- Thoughts on WWDC 2019 Keynote (games-specific)
- Arknights
- Sekiro, after 80 hours
- Let’s talk 996 / crunch and GaaS
- “Two Billion Gamers”
- Supercell’s challenge
- 2018 year in review
- Dug up an old framework
- Games from my childhood (2)
- Games from my childhood
- God of War (2018)
- Why navigation apps suck (a product thought exercise)
- 2017 year in review
- Why PUBG is Fresh
- Revisiting mobile platform advantage
- Innovating beyond Clash Royale
- Thoughts on Top Eleven
- The China Dilemma
- Thoughts on Uncharted 1-3
- Are mobile games disruptive?
- Microsoft’s cross-network play
- Superhot (2016) – thoughts
- Firewatch (2016) – thoughts
- Clash Royale – one month in
- Clash Royale – early review
- Quick anatomy of a great Bloodborne boss fight
- 2015 Games in China – the year in review
- China’s unique core mobile games
- Fallout 4 – a half-review
- Consoles in China
- The difficult Google play in China
- The Last of Us (2013) – a review
- India as melting pot for China & Silicon Valley
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – a short review
- Mobile gravity, and what it may mean for games (part 2)
- Mobile gravity, and what it may mean for games (part 1)
- The Witcher 3 – a review
- Bloodborne – a short review
- To B or to C, that is the question
- Video-games: the jobs to be done
- 2013 Top-grossing Video-games Observations
- What were the top-grossing video-games of 2013?
- Mobile Card Games
- The making of Diablo
- Should Nokia have gone with Android?
- Microsoft’s future
- The Waiting Game
- Interoperability as signal of relative market performance
- Apple: all news is bad news
- Why did desktop messaging apps fail on mobile?
- Facebook Home: good for Android, bad for Google
- Rise of the OTT messaging apps
- What are motivations to fork Android?
- How long can content region-locking last?
- App Store “10x” download speed boost in China
- Google Keep’s reception woes a lesson in community management
- Google’s long-term disconnect with Android
- high-end non-brand Android phones in the US
- The “Others”
- “Google controls too much of China’s smartphone sector”
- How the West was Won (or, another round of “open” vs. “closed”)
- Engadget reviews Pixel (or, how not to design for real-world users)
- 2012 / 2013 tech thoughts
- Max Payne 3 – semi review
- Mass Effect 3 short review
- “Open” vs. “Closed”, another example
- Mass Effect 1 & 2: a design review
- The Legacy of Steve Jobs
- Regarding Amazon’s Kindle Fire…
- Can Chromebook be more than a “noble experiment”?
- What if Apple launched a TV?
- The flaws to Google’s Android strategy
- Starcraft 2 and the e-sports eco-system, part 3
- Starcraft 2 and the e-sports eco-system, part 2
- Starcraft 2 and the e-sports eco-system, part I
- Why predictions of the iPhone’s death (at the hands of Android) are greatly exaggerated
- The complexities of the Android eco-system, and its implications
- Why Amazon won’t necessarily win the e-book wars
- Twitter, Facebook and Google: the competition under convergence
- Holding off from buying iPad 1.0; eager to buy iPad 2.0?
- Will Flash ever work on mobile?
- Haas MBA Google Trek and initial impressions of the Droid
- The Strategic Implications of Chrome OS
- PS3 levels the Netflix playing field with Xbox 360
- Career advice from Qi Lu, President of Microsoft Online Services
- Surprise: Sohu leads the copyright attack on Youku
- Vinod Khosla Speaks at Haas
- Apple’s major releases today
- Why the Palm Pre has been subpar