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Phil Spencer, the longtime head of Microsoft's gaming division who oversaw the $69 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition and the Game Pass revolution, has stepped down after 38 years with the company. Microsoft CoreAI executive Asha Sharma will take over in a surprise leadership shake-up.
Mojang has announced that Minecraft Java Edition will migrate its rendering engine from OpenGL to Vulkan, a move that promises significant performance improvements and better hardware utilization. The change marks one of the biggest technical shifts in the game's 15-year history and could reshape the modding ecosystem.
Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen argues in his book 'The Score' that games are far from trivial distractions—they're windows into how human agency actually functions. Games demonstrate how voluntary constraints can create freedom, showing us what it means to choose goals and care about processes rather than just outcomes. However, Nguyen warns that the gamification of work, education, and social life through metrics and rankings often backfires. When simplified scores replace richer human judgment in areas that truly matter, we experience 'value capture' that reshapes what we value and how we see ourselves.