Alejandro P. 🇵🇷

Let me share some positive news for a change: Despite all the gloomy headlines today, my understanding is that there are multiple paths actively being explored that would save Arkane Lyon. Anything can happen during negotiations, but at this point I'd be surprised if the studio is shut down.

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die

BioWare, which was once hundreds of employees across three offices, had around 50 staff remaining when EA closed the studio this morning. EA gutted BioWare after the release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard last year, as we reported then: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I literally don't have words for the news of EA closing Bioware. Unconscionable, incompetent, soulless decision-making. May everyone involved in these decision suffer Renegade interrupts for the rest of their lives.

How do you even survive as an indie in the current landscape? This is insane.

The fact that we have to be afraid to market our games because of AI theft is a condemnation of every executive who has pushed for this cancer in our industry and art form. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

It never ends. news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

The video game industry has always been volatile (I published Press Reset in 2021!) but the skeleton key to understanding the current state of things is this: Big games now cost 10x to make what they did 15 years ago but most do not generate even close to 10x the revenue. Simple as that

Barely any exclusive games on ps5 and now this. How is Sony going to justify the ps6? I can’t believe how short cited this decision is. You don’t do this to Kojima, I can’t imagine how many small and middle sized studios ideas are getting cancelled because is not a live service

Is this a humiliation kink?! wtf is going on

I'm sure there's more to this story since it doesn't make sense on spec, and we don't know how the project was advancing behind the scenes, but it's wild to see how much momentum Sony has lost this generation.

I’m utterly baffled by the string of decisions being made over there. What is going on?

If you ever wanted to know how the world has slowly been forced towards normalizing fascism, we're globally interpreting regional German elections ending a few percent short of a full Nazi supermajority as a good outcome, instead of as a historically proven existential threat.

freedom means that we should all get ready to pay bailouts for capitalism

My biggest problem with this is that a certain section of the audience believes a good review is one that conforms to the general consensus. Somewhere along the line people really lost the idea that not only can they have a different opinion on a piece of media, but differing opinions are exciting.

NEW: Rockstar has not yet figured out who was behind this week's widespread Grand Theft Auto VI leaks, nor how it happened, sources say. No plans to move next week's Netflix premiere. Inside the company: frustration, exhaustion, anger. My latest column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I'm trying to look for things with lower probabilities than this, but I have yet to find any

What the fuck www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-t...

A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity.

KINGDOM HEARTS IV | D23 2026 Showcase Trailer (coming LATE 2027) www.youtube.com/watch?v=54eF...

I’ve been saying this for the last three years - Big Video Game is 1000% pushing towards an all streaming future. People acted like “This Is An Xbox” was the dumbest idea of all time, but it was actually just M$, once again, trying something a little too early. They’re all gonna do it.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC Shader Injector Mod: A Fix for the Controversial Lighting?

So the corgi nationals race happened ..

On this day 15 years ago, we launched our first game, Bastion. To everyone who helped the Kid survive the Calamity, thank you!!🙏 You're the reason we've been able to carry on as an independent studio ever since.

A gamer in Brazil sued Microsoft after his Xbox account was hacked and locked, and they reportedly told him to create a new account and repurchase his games 🎮 The court ordered Microsoft to restore his original account and pay him $400

RIP Sam Neill Damn this one hurts. Grew up on his films and Jurassic Park is still one of my favorite movies of all time. Also just a genuinely nice person by all accounts. RIP legend 💔

It's been just staggering how much the games industry is at the whims of people who don't care, will not care, and simply do not have to care about games.

Today Xbox is beginning on their brave new marketing campaign to let their fanbase know that the all-new XBOX is embracing a brand new and focused strategy, in which the famous video games company cancels their beloved product, the video games.

Considering the general consumer dissatisfaction with digital/streaming, Sony deleting over 500 titles from their streaming service, bluray sales being up 10000%, CD coming back, this is a very stupid decision to make. Classic Sony basically. blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/p...

End of an era and no more physical backwards compatibility. If you want to play old ps5 or ps4 games on the ps6 you can’t anymore and have to rebuy them digitally. This comes after Sony removed digital movies from its library with no refunds or warnings to its customers. Bleak times

"We're ending physical disc production, but don't worry — we're ALSO shutting down our digital stores!" blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/a...

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

so uh hey as an egyptian I need a new way to declare variables in my code because I think I'm morally disallowed from using the phrase 'var' for a few weeks

Thanks so much to the @droppedframes.bsky.social audience for being wonderful as always. I mean what I said: I treasure every single one of you that believes in the same world of videogames that I fell in love with, despite everything pushing us another way. Thanks for keeping that dream possible.

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

The whiplash this past week regarding everything Xbox is among the most extreme I can recall seeing in the games industry. Going from a hopeful, exciting showcase to the worst possible news. The absurdity of all this is staggering. :(

If not corruption, why corruption shaped? www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhWk...

What's the secret to Final Fantasy VII Revelation only taking three years to make? A consistent vision and retaining 95% of their staff. I spoke to director Naoki Hamaguchi about Revelation's development, what he's doing next (no more remakes!), and much more. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

The fraud potential just writes itself.

I am honored to return to the God of War saga, as the composer of God of War Laufey. I’ve been working on this for years with a stunningly talented team of developers, musicians, performers, and singers, and look forward to sharing more of all our work with you soon!

Mama of War

So here’s the game I spent four years writing 🥹❤️. I am so unbelievably proud of the team at Santa Monica Studio - I am well aware of the incredible talent that team possesses, but it’s more beautiful than I ever imagined. I cannot wait to play it (again technically 😏), now as a fan! #GodofWarLaufaye

Again, if you let any state get away with doing something against anyone, eventually they'll do it against you. Israel has gotten away with war crimes in Gaza, and they are allowed to continue doing so - and now it's here, too.