Author: packetcat

A few longform pieces this week, I especially recommend the oral history of the development process of the first Assassin’s Creed, a game that made me fall in love with open world games! The timing is apt as well, I am currently playing through Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, the latest AC game set in Ancient Greece, and I am enjoying it quite a bit!

• iPhone XR: A Deep Dive Into Depth by Ben Sandofsky
• The Cybe by André Staltz
• Apps Installed On Millions Of Android Phones Tracked User Behavior To Execute A Multimillion-Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme by Craig Silverman
• Assassin’s Creed: An oral history by Richard Moss
• Apple’s New Map by Justin O’Beirne

This week, I would like to especially recommend the article by Jason Schrier regarding the working culture inside Rockstar Games. Something to consider and reflect on for all of us that play video games.

Also, a special shoutout to Leah for the latest edition of the Leah Letter. A welcome and refreshing read as always. I recommend subscribing yourself.

• The iPhone XR by John Gruber
• Growing Up in the Library by Susan Orlean
• Inside Rockstar Games’ Culture Of Crunch by Jason Schreier
• Cities: Skylines by Sargoth
• Ethics in media consumption by Leah Finnegan

Bunch of reviews to read this week, the Anandtech one is fairly long and detailed. Other than that, didn’t get much reading done as I’ve been sick through most of the week, blergh.

• 70+ different types of home routers(all together 100,000+) are being hijacked by GhostDNS by yegenshen
• Pixel 3 XL review—Google software deserves better than this hardware by Ron Amadeo
• The iPhone XS & XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Secrets by Andrei Frumusanu
• Vivaldi 2.0 review: The modern Web browser does not have to be so bland by Scott Gilbertson