When the Latin

monks were experiencing the Viking raids starting in 800...

A.D., continuing for the next couple hundred years, they had a saying that feels pretty darn relevant.

From the fury of the Northmen deliver us over.

Right now, sub out Northmen for Microsoft and it feels pretty darn relevant.

From the continual layoffs of Microsoft, deliver us, oh Lord, because it just keeps going.

It just keeps going.

It's just, it's funny that it came out this way.

[laughs]

...

in order to realize, like, okay, no, I love what I do.

I love this industry.

In spite of this industry pulling its nonsense, I do love it.

So- What is it about it that I love? Do I still want to be in- what ways do I still want to be involved in it? And that's what led to Campaign Mode, which is my newsletter, where I realized it is nice, and more importantly, it is needed for me to have something that is just 100% mine.

That at the end of the day, this is the thing that no one else can look over my shoulder and tell me, "Hey, you need to change this headline to do this," or, "Oh, well, more people would click on it if you did this," or, "Hey, we're using this experimental AI tool to do this and this and this without asking you." No.

Get out of my face.

I know the logos.

You know, the logo shows, uh, the, the concept art that comes out of Doom, great stuff.

I love that.

I have one of the art books sitting in my room, uh, just a few feet away.

Uh, Colin Geller, he was at id Software for 12 years.

He's gone.

They let him go.

It's in the description

I assume Todd Howard.

BGS's BGS and Starfield are the exception.

That's correct.

Um, setting that aside, all the teams were very enthusiastic about getting PS, uh, PlayStation and potentially Nintendo Switch versions because here's another thing.

A lot of these ports do not cost what people think they cost.

I th- I know there's been some debate around that, and there's definitely discussions to be had about did, did, did they do well enough to sacrifice the brand reputation for doing it.

That's fine.

... for folks that wanna know about games? What would you, what would you suggest?

Sam, pimp yourself, my man.

Yeah.

So after I, you know, was cut from Windows Central at the start of this year, I had to do some soul searching, figure out what I was up to, figure out if I still wanted to do video games.

And yeah, I love video games too much, uh, to my detriment, as today's news proves.

But I started my own newsletter.

It's called Campaign Mode.

And I believe Jesse has the link he can throw into the description or into the chat or both.

That is the problem.