Made games long ago #retrogaming Global biz and finance since. Still love games also art, theatre, science, and a bit of politics. Your life’s what you make it.
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Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code and GitHub from its bankers and traders
The parallels to private equity are clear.
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A report captures one moment. A deal runs for nine years. Your LLM answers any question about the package well. The trouble is year three: four amendments, a restatement, the builder gone, the auditor asking. A year-three question needs a record, not a better read.
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On February 25 the SEC settled with a private credit adviser over performing loans sold to its own funds at par in spring 2020, without re-deriving their value after the market moved. $900,000 and a censure. The lesson is the process, not the number: "performing" is not a defense.
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My family's story: a mill on Hamer Lane in Manchester, lost in the Great Depression. The record disagrees on every noun. Radcliffe, not Manchester. 1920–21, not 1929. A company that outlived the family's stake in it.
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On Friday the FCA published its multi-firm review of conflicts of interest in private markets. Read it through one lens: what has to be on the record.
Continuation vehicles and cross-fund transactions are treated as elevated conflict-risk events. Independent valuations are expected to support transaction pricing. And the plainest sentence is the one that matters: "Sufficient records should be maintained to show compliance with policies, procedures and regulatory obligations."
That is the pattern of 2026. The SEC's examination priorities, the DOL's proposed valuation condition and now this review ask the same thing of a firm: not a better opinion of value, but a record that shows how the number was reached, from what, and by whom.
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The best pitch openings describe a market about to be forced to change. Private capital is one. Every commitment rests on a read: several hundred pages, read once, reduced to a spreadsheet and a memo. The deal keeps changing. The spreadsheet does not.
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Heard about the Apple Vision Pro port of Mario64 … this guy goes one step further. Is this a future for #retrogames @oliemack @dark1x @digitalfoundry
Making Steam games physical again. Love this! Life will find a way @dark1x @Dachsjaeger @oliemack @digitalfoundry
A PC gamer has found a fun way to make Steam games feel like physical cartridges again.
Reddit user u/Jibril-sama created a setup using old 2.5-inch SSDs, with each 128GB drive holding one Steam game and a small script.
When the SSD is plugged into the PC, it automatically opens Steam and launches that game.
The creator bought the used SSDs for around €7 each and uses them to store games that aren’t played often, freeing up space on the main drive.
When they want to play a game, they simply plug in the SSD like inserting a game cartridge.
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Agentic coding going to change games development as quickly as it’s impacting fintech — less than an hour for FPS game and its bespoke engine 😬 @oliemack @digitalfoundry
Grok 4.5 in Grok Build created an FPS game in under an hour.
The prompt was simple. I told it to write a game design document and pull free assets from the web. Then I had it create a TODO.md with implementation phases and run a loop to build out each phase.
SpaceXAI and Cursor cooked here. This model is insane.
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There is a view in the games industry that Roblox or Fortnite will eat everything. Here’s Quake in Roblox 🙃 @oliemack @digitalfoundry
had a crazy idea on Friday: port Quake to Roblox. After a /goal, $3000 of Fable tokens and four sleepless nights, meet Robloquake, a function-by-function port of Quake, Quakeworld and mods to luau. Open source and playable in Roblox today
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Rocket League in a world model @oliemack @digitalfoundry
Introducing MIRA.
A playable, multiplayer world model.
A dream of Rocket League.
Trained on 10k hours of data collected with publicly available bots, MIRA learns the dynamics of a four-player game. The model runs in real time at 20 fps, based on the keys you and the other players press.
Built by General Intuition and @kyutai_labs, in collaboration with Epic Games. Not used to develop Rocket League.
▶️ Play the demo, read the technical report, and explore the open-source code at generalintuition.com/mira
At ICML? Find us at Booth 111 to try it yourself and dig into the results with the team.
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It’s the video game sequel to @Glinner’s The IT Crowd — also brilliant
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Fathers who show up have a huge impact on their daughters #GirlDad open.substack.com/pub/verity…
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@oliemack Project Genie is very interesting demo, but gamification is years away … surely?! But even if it wasn’t putting the onus on the player to imagine the world and the game won’t work, you’ll still need a game maker to write the ultra-prompt that drives the game 🤷♂️
Video game stocks are suddenly crashing today with the launch of Google's Project Genie as investors think games will start getting made with AI
➡️ ca.investing.com/news/stock-…
#GoogleGemini #TakeTwo #CDProjektRED #Roblox #videogames
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@oliemack Can this get more meta?
Can Genie 3 run Doom?
"Doom, but the walls are made entirely out of screens also running Doom, featuring the marine from Doom but also his head is a screen running Doom"
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Hey @RedGamingTech have you seen @n_x_g excellent video Database #33?
Reckon MT has hit the nail on the head with his PlayStation 6 Future analysis, plus the real causes of AI bubble is worthwhile too youtu.be/7xXZAkPJENc?si=ObnL…
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@Se_Railway My daughter left her suitcase on the train to Ramsgate at Ashford. It left Ashford at 22:45 and is above the seat.
Can the train manager get it for her? The staff at Ashford station said she should wait and see if it gets to Ramsgate. But if your team could get it?!
I wrote new article: When every problem looks like an AI nail, we end up with a lot of broken hammers.
Reid Hoffman named 3 types of bad competition. In 2025, there’s a 4th — and it could be your biggest advantage.
I call it Lazy Thinking Competition.👇
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Last week we had DeepMind’s Genie 3 creating interactive worlds with LLMs — this week we’ve got an OpenSource version.
How long until the first game uses this tech @oliemack 🤯
Matrix-Game 2.0 — The FIRST open-source, real-time, long-sequence interactive world model
Last week, DeepMind's Genie 3 shook the AI world with real-time interactive world models.
But... it wasn't open-sourced.
Today, Matrix-Game 2.0 changed the game. 🚀
25FPS. Minutes-long interaction. Fully open-source.
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Jim Fan of Nvidia talks about LLMs as game engines. Interesting stuff @oliemack
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Could DLSS take this 720p 24fps and upscale it along with frame interpolation?
What if they could make the model small enough to work on a discrete GPU, gaming laptop, console…?
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