Business
The Live Service Graveyard
The growing list of games that bet on forever and lost.
Culture
Modding
Players grab the keys to the dev toolkit and build things the original creators never imagined.
Consoles
Game Boy Advance
A portable SNES in your hands, delivering a golden age of 2D gaming when the world was obsessed with 3D.
Narrative
Ludonarrative Dissonance
When the story says one thing but the gameplay says the complete opposite.
Technology
Entity Component System (ECS)
Ditch inheritance hierarchies -- just slap components onto entities like LEGO bricks.
Based on infomaxxxing codebase