Garrett Young

DEFECT @ Empty Vessel. The team is rocking. Formerly Id, Microsoft, Activision, Disney. Game dev is a team sport.

[NBA History @NBAHistory]

Today in NBA history...

Magic Johnson's sky hook with 2 seconds remaining in Game 4 of the 1987 NBA Finals ✨

The Lakers won and took a 3–1 series lead!

[Mick Gordon @Mick_Gordon]

10 years of DOOM (2016).
A quick look at the BFG Division session files.

[popstetic @popstetic]

Em 1991, James Brown resolveu testar Eddie Murphy ao vivo.

Durante o show, ele chamou o comediante ao palco e perguntou se ele realmente sabia imitá-lo… segundos depois, Eddie entregou uma das imitações mais absurdas da carreira.

Pouca gente teria coragem de imitar o próprio James Brown na frente dele.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

68 college students played video games an hour a day for 30 weeks. They got measurably smarter. EEG brain scans confirmed it.

The setup was simple. Half the group played League of Legends, an action game. The other half played Legends of the Three Kingdoms, a strategy card game. Same hours, same schedule, no gaming experience for anyone going in. Both groups improved on attention, working memory, and executive function. The League group's gains were significantly larger in spatial attention and spatial working memory. The benefits were still measurable 10 weeks after the gaming stopped.

None of this is new.

Daphne Bavelier's lab at the University of Geneva has been replicating this finding since the early 2000s. Her 2018 meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin pulled data from 8,970 participants across 15 years and found the same thing. Action games train attentional control, a brain skill that transfers to other tasks. Strategy games train deliberation, which mostly stays inside the strategy game.

The mechanism is the counterintuitive part. Action games train your brain by giving you no time to think. The brain can't deliberate. League of Legends throws 9 champions, hundreds of minions, dozens of abilities, mana, cooldowns, and map state at you, all updating in milliseconds. The brain learns to perceive faster instead. That perceptual speed transfers to anything else that demands the same skill.

Including surgery.

The 2007 Rosser study in Archives of Surgery found that laparoscopic surgeons who played video games more than 3 hours a week made 37% fewer errors, completed procedures 27% faster, and scored 42% higher on overall performance. The top third of gamers made 47% fewer errors. Laparoscopic surgery is a 2D screen with distorted depth perception, remote-controlled instruments, and multiple data streams updating in real time. The cognitive profile is almost identical to an action video game.

The 10-week persistence is the part that should change how this gets discussed. If the gains were just from practicing the game, they would have disappeared the moment the students stopped playing. They didn't. The 30 weeks rewired the perceptual system, and the rewiring stayed.

[Seattle Supersonics @SeattleSonics]

The Reign Man's influence on the game + culture wasn’t subtle.

It was loud, physical, and hanging on the rim.

[Garrett Young @garretty]

@Frostbanehere12 @Pirat_Nation I only see 3 names in both credits

[Garrett Young @garretty]

@jasoncherringt1 @VGC_News Well it is a long game … I love it but haven’t finished yet … and IME only 10% of players complete most SP campaigns

[DEFECT @playdefect]

Meet our game in 20 seconds

[DEFECT @playdefect]

Check your six. Never know what the city is hiding from you.

Step into a world with one rule: ‘Chaos Above All’ and watch the #DEFECT EXTENDED trailer.

Wishlist today: https://t.co/Ddpy1bnfXB

[DEFECT @playdefect]

Welcome to the world of #DEFECT.

Laws do not exist here, only The System does. It uses its Enforcers to drill into whatever is left of people’s humanity and maintain order, insuring Chaos Above All.

[Garrett Young @garretty]

@playdefect yeah yeah!

[DEFECT @playdefect]

IT'S OFFICIAL! We’re excited to announce that we’ll be revealing a new #DEFECT trailer tomorrow during the Galaxies Show.

Tune in live tomorrow, October 23rd at 12PM PDT | 3PM EDT to get your first glimpse and dive deeper into the chaos.

📺: https://t.co/iGV4Iq3l2O

[Mick Gordon @Mick_Gordon]

DEFECT GAMEPLAY REVEAL — TOMORROW

Control vs. Chaos.
Built by @emptyvesselplay

Catch it during the Galaxies Showcase 2025 with @playdefect — Oct 23 at 12 PM PT | 3 PM ET | 8pm GMT

Watch on IGN, YouTube & Twitch.

🎮 Wishlist now: https://t.co/aHkqCoqK6f

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

ALCS, HERE WE COME! #SeizeTheMoment

[DEFECT @playdefect]

What we're working on right now:
🔴 Multiple layers of destruction on any wall in the world.
🔴Dust that fills the air the more you destroy.
🔴 Different weapons or ammo types affect the environment and destruction differently.

#WishlistWednesday #gamedev #indiegame

[Garrett Young @garretty]

@JamieMoranUK I prefer price hikes to developer layoffs

[Garrett Young @garretty]

@JezCorden I would prefer they raise prices than lay off game developers

[Garrett Young @garretty]

@coachajkings No commitment without involvement. Great story @coachajkings I had never heard this before. Buying Drew Brees jersey now.

[Garrett Young @garretty]

@JezCorden @JezCorden You’re first person I’ve seen recognize Forza is MS biggest home-grown IP. Nice work.

[DEFECT @playdefect]

How do people describe your game:
- Dredd meets Ready or Not
- Action layered in atmosphere
- Heavy metal cyberpunk