Andrew Meggs

“Dark role-playing masterpiece/dropped bag of spanners” is kind of my whole IRL personality, so that would totally track. @pcgamer.com www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/22...

OKAY. Here's how my first week as an independent journalist went down! I published 30 stories for Vertical Slice—including an interview with Ubisoft union workers on their fight against an RTO mandate and coverage of the Rockstar union busting tribunal in Glasgow. It was hard work, but rewarding!

Wrote a blog post about using WebGPU's upcoming bindless texture sampling feature, with an accompanying demo! toji.dev/2026/10/06/w...

meshoptimizer 1.3 is out! Featuring a new voxel remesher, support for normal generation, several simplification improvements and various optimizations and fixes. GitHub stars and reposts appreciated! meshoptimizer was started 10 years ago; excited for the years to come! github.com/zeux/meshopt...

Trying something new, a roundup of the weeks retro news … retrogamecoders.com/worth-a-watc... Let me know what you think?

Company that union busts and fires its employees and then justifies it by spreading rumors they were leaking stuff are now insisting you have to sympathize with them because it’s heartbreaking what these leakers are doing to their employees.

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

I've been trying to write this page since … 2015! Each time I try, get frustrated, quit, start over. But this time I think I might have gotten the page to a good state … www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/...

Slowly accepting that my final form is going to look a lot like “But we have Cyber Rick Rubin at home...” so I figure I might as well read his damn book.

The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.

A lighting environment like, on the walk between the main #SIGGRAPH Hall and the @khronos.org breakouts, is really just one giant nerd-snipe.

Sick of Unreal Engine in everything. Let a couple of people dick around with RE Engine. Let people muck around with ID Tech 8. I wanna see what people make outta the beautiful, stapled together Havok shit FromSoft uses.

Art by • David Mattingly

All layoffs are a waste of money and lives. But none are so shortsighted as laying off ID engineers. Their engine is the only high fidelity engine performing well on lower end hardware. ...you know, the only affordable kind of hardware in the next few years

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

I'm trying to process why yesterday's Xbox layoffs feel so apocalyptic and depressing. I've been in multiple studio closures and seen many friends experience the same. The January layoffs at Meta RL were similar-size and hit much nearer. But this one feels so much more hopeless.

The key difference between almost all human art and code is that almost all other art carries it's payload in subjective subtext, and in code the subtext is externalized as objective machine behavior.

So many people. So many things I had worked on alongside them. So much talent. So much more left to build. Like tears in the rain.

I'm an archeologist. My career is in ruins. 🤣😜 It's because funding has necrotized

GUIDE: Welcome to the Great American State Fair! TOURIST: Incredible! And which state are we in right now? GUIDE: (violently shaking their head) Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Shameless plug for all the places my wife's talking at #SIGGRAPH. (I'll also be talking, but only at the hotel bar and only about things better left unsaid.)

Stably, reproducibly, and quickly (re-)generate arbitrary terrain subsections, with on-demand random access.

Very deep dive on Blackwell architecture and performance tuning. Seriously go read it. Even if you exclusively do non-AI graphics, go read Part 1. mlc.ai/modern-gpu-p...

The trouble with sanding green paint in a room with white trim is that during cleanup it's really hard to tell what's dusty and what's Cornell Box. #TheGraphicsAreGreatIRL

“It’s almost a real-time IP incubator of sorts, with moderators and communities that are cultivating these spaces where stories and fandoms can grow organically." It's the *people*, not the platform! Let the PEOPLE TELL STORIES! So tired. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Travel booked for #SIGGRAPH. I'll be in Los Angeles Jul 18-24. First (external) conference since... pre-Meta & pre-COVID?!! It's been too long since I've seen too many people. If you're going to be at SIGGRAPH (or just can meet up around LA/OC), please DM me so we can (re-)connect.

If you have this problem using LLDB from VS Code (as I've had), try the "CodeLLDB" extension, and add this to your launch config: "initCommands": [ "settings set symbols.load-on-demand true" ], iirc it didn't work for me when I tried setting the setting other ways? but doing it this way works.

Shockingly, 2026 did indeed become the year of the Linux Desktop for me. Everything is so fast and snappy compared to what Windows has become. Highly recommended. I only cross-boot for a few games with kernel anti-cheat, which nicely isolates the third-party kernel hacks from everything else I do.

New milestone achieved in AI: Opus 4.7 max effort just tried to use an em-dash instead of -- in C++ source code.

New reading from @mtrc.bsky.social in the mail!

When a game has you play a character with a specific backstory and absolutely no head trauma... But the narrative design turns very basic knowledge that character would have about their own life into a tantalizing mystery for the player to slowly uncover... Is there a term for that trope?

Today's the day I realized that my most practical and effective way to search the Internet is to ask Gemini but always end the query with: "Ignore Google's own search rankings; those have been hopelessly poisoned by SEO-optimized scams."

When the dog thought I was too slow getting him ready for a walk, I joked about "The anticip..." FML now I've got an Australian Shepherd who activates go mode if anybody quotes Rocky Horror.