Seba “Nujabes” Jun was a record shop owner and producer, though most know him for the latter. Above anything else, however, he was a student of hip-hop. Guinness Records and Sweet Sticky Thing Jun grew up in eastern Tokyo, Japan. Drawn to music from a young age, he would go on to own Guinness Records in…

Six years and some change after the platform launched, Discord has established itself as a dominant force within the chat app ecosystem. Hundreds of millions of monthly active users, tens of billions of messages, it has achieved scaling successfully. With an established brand identity, a loyal cult-like following, and more…

Since 2015, Discord has grown from a gaming-centric replacement of Skype & TeamSpeak, to a more mainstream go-to catch-all for chatting. The application’s interface has gone through many stages throughout the years, while the Spotify integration is a facet which never got much love. The features are presented in chronological…

In 2012, I broke down Valve’s rendering techniques. Five years later, I’m on an adventure to briefly peel back a few more layers. — Valve Corporation, an internationally-renowned game developer based out of Bellevue, Washington, has innovated modern game design in numerous ways. In 2007, they introduced how illustrative rendering pertained to Team Fortress 2’s development — an approach that would forever change the perception of a video game character’s recognition and identity complexity.

Jeff Kaplan and the Overwatch team lead the charge for inclusivity within the gaming industry. How did Blizzard pull this off? Crafted from the broken pieces of Titan, Overwatch is a brave approach that became the most successful video game release of 2016. …