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For game development (and unlike most of other software development projects), you're likely to have binary files which need to be edited (representing so-called “assets”)

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for open-source games, Git does have a Very Significant Advantage™

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As a rule of thumb, for gamedev we DO need to have our version control to be easily usable by non-developers.

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it is the second developer to commit who becomes a responsible for resolving conflicts

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Whenever Game Event is interrupted for significant time, as a rule of thumb it is better to roll back the interrupted Game Event rather than trying to restore the exact Game World State in the middle of the Game Event.

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Just like Scaling Up, improving performance doesn’t provide infinite scalability. However, it happens that it is all about numbers.

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The basic idea behind Continuous Integration is simple: as soon as you commit something, a build is automatically run with all the tests you were able to invent by that time

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One thing which should be noted about agile criticisms, is that there is no real disagreement about what needs to be done; the sentiment in such criticisms is usually more along the lines of “we’re doing it anyway, so do we need fancy names and external consultants?