Welcome to Patch Notes, a newsletter exploring gaming, technology, culture, history, and trying to make sense of what is going on.1
Patch Notes is written by Brian Shih. I’m currently consulting a couple of gaming and crypto-gaming projects. Previously, I worked at Pocket Gems as VP of Product for over a decade running live games, building infrastructure, and developing new IP. Prior to that I was a product manager at Google, where I worked on Google Reader (RIP), and Google Finance. I live in Las Vegas, Nevada.
I'm passionate about gaming of all kinds — PC, console, mobile, and tabletop — and believe that gaming is eating culture. I also love history, science fiction & fantasy, finance, book stores, note-taking & todo-list software, mechanical keyboards, and Dr Pepper.
You can reach me at @bshih on Twitter or theclash (at) gmail (dot) com.
Some other fragments of my existence on the internet include:
Lamenting the death of Google Reader and talking about the Game Developers Conference
Discussing the future of gaming and web3
A few older DJ mixes on Mixcloud
A small part in bringing fnnch’s honeybears.io NFT project to life
Investments on Angel.co (personally and via our Olin College syndicate Parcel B)
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“Patch notes” are a list of changes released by game developers that outline fixes, changes, and new additions made to a game with the latest update or software patch. Serious gamers read patch notes to stay up to date and prepare for how the game is changing. Sometimes they are innocuous (or meaningless, like “bug fixes and performance improvements”); sometimes they fundamentally change the game.
