Zachary Small
@ZacharyHSmall
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Joined July 2015
A look at French indie game studio Sandfall Interactive, whose critically-acclaimed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold 5M+ copies with a budget of less than $10M (@zacharyhsmall / New York Times) https://t.co/8Iw0BzWziu
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Zachary Small / New York Times: A look at France-based indie game studio Sandfall Interactive, whose critically acclaimed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 had a sub-$10M budget and sold 5M+ copies
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We reported this out — so helpful to get a budget estimate on Clair Obscur. It shows developers what you can do for a relatively small budget.
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One of the leading contenders at @thegameawards, we profiled the studio behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — which includes a close estimate on what it really took (and cost) to make the game. https://t.co/aPEJTxyY2i
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Without a blockbuster budget or much experience, the creators of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 astounded the industry with an emotional narrative and old-school design.
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I’ll be here into January and hopefully a bit beyond in a different way! I love the Paris Review and my job is one of the good ones! Consider it!
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Why should only deep-pocketed millionaires enjoy the sorts of profits that can come from investing in high-end art? Inside the company that sells artworks like stocks. https://t.co/RNR0D0Bf2N
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Masterworks offers average investors a chance to buy individual shares in paintings often only owned by the rich, but critics say its marketing can overstate the upside of investing in its art.
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SCOOP: Sasha Suda filed a lawsuit against the Philadelphia Art Museum, arguing breach of contract for her surprise dismissal. The lawsuit gets into details we rarely hear about from inside the board room. https://t.co/SH2WoNUOFs
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Sasha Suda claims the museum did not have a valid reason for abruptly firing her last week from one of the most prominent jobs in the art world.
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As we have previously reported, the video game industry is leaving a 30-year phase of growth. What’s next? Big changes. https://t.co/j5t4BUyYOB
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The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?
The New York Times covers Xbox's "Strategic shift away from exclusivity." https://t.co/Pvk8Hd6H3J
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Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty reveals that part of the reason that Xbox-exclusive games are going to PS5 is “our biggest competition isn’t another console” “We are competing more and more with everything from TikTok to movies” (Source: https://t.co/u6Gou6Edwx)
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One of the biggest shifts in the video game world is happening at Microsoft — it's a big swing and we spoke exclusively to the people overseeing it.
"Our biggest competition isn't another console", says Xbox boss Matt Booty about Halo on PlayStation. "We are all seeking to meet people where they are[...]We are competing more and more with everything from TikTok to movies" ➡️ https://t.co/tnKHmTRHgi
#Halo #Xbox #PS5
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BREAKING: Trump signs order "MAKING FEDERAL ARCHITECTURE BEAUTIFUL AGAIN" https://t.co/WSxTwmJ4QS
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The order, which affects buildings like federal courthouses and agency headquarters, encourages classical styles rather than modernist aesthetics.
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For the last five months, I've been reporting on curators and artists who feel their exhibitions have been censored in some way, because museums fear backlash from Trump. Here are those stories. https://t.co/KSYeMsnehW
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Some museums are changing or canceling exhibits, especially those that involve artworks that engage with gender, sexuality and race.
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Trump continues to scrutinize the Smithsonian, now with a list — https://t.co/lSqxMgkUWG
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The Trump administration highlighted material dealing with topics like sexuality, slavery and immigration.
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The Carnegie Museums had guidelines against political events; one happened anyway, igniting a firestorm in Pittsburgh. Our article breaks down what happened, and the question of who knew what when. https://t.co/BZmKaQYWMD
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Carnegie Museums employees objected that a fund-raiser for a nonprofit with ties to a senator had violated museum policy against renting space for partisan political events.
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$5,000-Per-Plate Dinner Tests Museum Ban on Political Fund-Raisers #museums by Zachary Small @ZacharyHSmall @nytimes
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Carnegie Museums employees objected that a fund-raiser for a nonprofit with ties to a senator had violated museum policy against renting space for partisan political events.
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Nearly a year later, I arranged to meet the paleontologist Barry at his workshop in Pennsylvania, a renovated dairy barn to see the triceratops and understand his grief process. https://t.co/r6KfWru24P
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When his wife died, the paleontologist Barry James poured his grief into the reconstruction of a triceratops skeleton that they had started together.
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When his wife died, the paleontologist Barry James poured his grief into the reconstruction of a $25M triceratops skeleton that they had started together. Surrounded by the bones, an unconventional way for him to honor April started to form ...
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I am proud to be the lead House Democrat on the HEAR Act. As I told the New York Times, the Nazi regime stole about 600,000 works of art from Jews, and today more than 100,000 remain unrecovered. The HEAR Act, that I was proud to sponsor when it first passed in 2016, was a
An effort to extend a 2016 law helping Holocaust victims and their heirs retrieve artworks stolen by the Nazis is pitting Jewish organizations that want to strengthen the law against major museums that have been quietly lobbying to keep it as it is. https://t.co/zLLpLlCA9L
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An effort to extend a 2016 law helping Holocaust victims and their heirs retrieve artworks stolen by the Nazis is pitting Jewish organizations that want to strengthen the law against major museums that have been quietly lobbying to keep it as it is. https://t.co/zLLpLlCA9L
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Museums want Congress to simply renew a law meant to help Holocaust victims and their heirs retrieve works stolen by the Nazis, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to toughen it.
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Story time: Back in 2021, one of the most legendary wallets in the space was an account named fartlord.eth. Massive collection. Ridiculous floor sweeps. The wallet was full of really IYKYK top-notch fine art (remember Folia?) and also ridiculous degen PFP rugs, with no
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