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Stephen Totilo
Personal blog · gamefile.newsgamesbusiness
Stephen Totilo writes Game File, a personal blog at gamefile.news about games and business. Since 2024, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Netflix Shuts Down Its AAA Game Studio”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Game File, Stephen Totilo's video game industry newsletter. The linked posts cover Microsoft quietly scaling back its diversity and inclusion efforts. Comments are bare links only.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The business and culture of video games, from a reporter with 20 years on the beat.
Most-linked posts?
- Netflix Shuts Down Its AAA Game Studio2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-22
What Hacker News says?
Game File post: https://www.gamefile.news/p/microsoft-skips-diversity-inclus...
Comment linking /p/microsoft-skips-diversity-inclusion-report-2025
on “Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts”Submitted Netflix Shuts Down Its AAA Game Studio as a story · 39 points
HN discussionGame File post: https://www.gamefile.news/p/microsoft-skips-diversity-inclus...
Comment linking /p/microsoft-skips-diversity-inclusion-report-2025
on “Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts”Submitted Microsoft game workers call out company over Israeli military ties as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Video game industry group expects Trump tariffs to have dire effects as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted EA CEO's pay is up, as EA worker median income drops as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Netflix shuts down 'AAA' Team Blue gaming studio, amid gaming shake-up as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Netflix to shut down two more game studios as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sony will cease production of discs for new PlayStation games in 2028 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft-Activision deal was meant to help The Embracer Grou as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The mail sent to a video game publisher as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin's Creed last year as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Nintendo's late president Satoru Iwata told me, a long time ago as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New law could help gaming industry by clarifying what video games are as a story · 1 points
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