Cadence of Hyrule by Brace Yourself Games is the best 2D Zelda game. Yeah, I said it. Fight me.

as of Cadence of Hyrule I'm declaring 🎄dannyBstyle🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 the 古代祐三 Yuzo Koshiro of this generation of games; he drops epoch-defining bangers full. stop.

Fascinating read for anyone involved in matchmaking polygon.com/features/2019/…

On the Android 12-key Japanese input method, why is を in the left direction instead of down like all the other お-sound kana?! Someone, anyone, please. It's keeping me awake at night.

Just published Cloud Spanner for Games Best Practices, enjoy cloud.google.com/solutions/best…

Congratulations! 🎊

My first presentation in Japanese! A whopping TWO SLIDES! (Customer introduction, basically). Grenge did a great job and we really appreciate their support! #gc_inside #GoogleNext19

DMC stands for 'Devastating Mic Control'. youtu.be/qXzWlPL_TKw?t=…

As a photographer before smartphones: not on board with the insistence that the best 'second' lens is a superwide. Give me high-MP telephotos, please. I rarely wish to go wider and very frequently wish I could get longer shots without sacrificing resolution.

Awesome!

I guess decades are the only zero-based list the general public is cool with.

Keep an eye out for upcoming episodes.

Congratulations to the Open Match developers on releasing version 1.0 today! Congratulations. I know a lot of work went into it. open-match.dev

Grats on 1.0! cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

If you're a Pokemon Go player, please consider participating in Fest 2020, with portions of your ticket purchase going to Black gaming and AR creators, as well as some US nonprofits: nianticlabs.com/en/blog/blackl…

Second Youtube series episode to help companies getting started with GCP got posted late last week. Make sure you've watched the previous episode first! youtu.be/jJOZUQTwdLk

For those interested in running dedicated game servers on GCP at scale:

Managing global scale for multiplayer games just got easier with Google Cloud Game Servers, now GA 🌎🎮🔥 Check out this deep dive to learn more about the managed service and how it can help support your games ↓ cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

Did an episode for #GoogleCloudLevelUp on an app locali[s|z]ation workflow. I show how to synthesise natural-sounding speech directly from text in #GoogleSheets and put the files directly into #GoogleDrive. google.smh.re/n19

Google just announced Apricot, a new subsea cable that will connect Singapore, Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia, expected to be in service 2024. Big potential for multiplayer gaming in there somewhere :D google.smh.re/nOc