Anthony Reddan

Woah.

no amount of success, merit, profitability, or talent will spare you. you can not make yourself irreplicable or indispensable. you can not be layoff-proof. even if things actually would fall apart without you and everybody knows it.

For World Space Week 2026, we're teaming up with Pokémon to unite space exploration and a universe of imagination. More to come soon. ⚡https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Branding_and_Partnerships/ESA_and_Pokemon_team_up_to_celebrate_World_Space_Week #WorldSpaceWeek2026 #PokemonxESA

let's fucking go

patching in multiplayer is such a sick move

Which milestone was "gut the devs?"

nevermind it looks sick i was wrong, sorry www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUR2...

a while back I made a mod for Doom 3 as proof of concept for "this game would be better without cutscenes" in this scene the player walks into a room with a window behind which people are talking, and we get a cutscene of the player watching through the window. just let me look through the window!

this was supposed to be the summer of max payne

Emu night (1/2)

A statement from WIRED leadership.

"In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough." https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/

From ‘Outstanding’ and a good reminder that investing in the arts is a win-win, not a lose-lose, proposition.

In the age of AI, it's a good time to pull out my old essay "Rough Edges" from Blood Knife. The messy imperfections in art aren't flaws to be eliminated. They're its heart and soul, the part that can never be automated or imitated. bloodknife.com/rough-edges/

I’m convinced that a large % of programmers don’t actually like computers. As a side effect, are also perfectly happy to throw away their reasoning to a model as soon as they can. I don’t get it, at ALL.

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

the thing about llms is that they copy old work and have no ability to intentionally pursue lateral leaps of creative insight, so a world ruled by ai is a world of endless recycling of the past. imagine that. culture eating itself. imagine that. totalitarian nostalgia. imagine

Recently had the opportunity to talk to the legend who made my childhood-beloved game Fable! @bbbscarter.bsky.social have worked at Bullfrog on Magic Carpet and Dungeon Keeper after which he and his brother Dene joined forces to work on something that would later become Fable! youtu.be/69pvUyBsruQ

Btw this doesn't bode well for creators wanting to tell unique stories about underrepresented communities.

If anyone is looking to hire a Peabody and BAFTA winning senior writer, I am looking for work. I’ve got six years experience in games. Everything from indie to AAA. I am not married to staying in games. I am hoping to relocate to the Bay Area. I am keeping my ears to the ground.

South of Midnight was the first time I saw my peers talk about the South as something beautiful and worth seeing. That game did something I didn't think was possible; it was a love letter to a region I believe we should fight for, and for once, my peers got to see the beauty and magic that I see.

My LinkedIn is full of posts by former Microsoft colleagues who accepted the voluntary retirement offer. I counted at least 9 posts from people I worked with in the past. For some reason, it felt even sadder than layoff posts. It was hard to put into words until this post from a now ex-Microsoftie.

I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/0...

games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

Hello Bluesky! I am Maria Roklain, an artist from Russia, I love dragons. I work in illustrator and artist in videogames

Gotta admit, did not expect Australia to pass some sort of controversial and generally justifiably disliked internet law, and as the idea of these laws now spread globally everybody is discussing who did it first, which it turns out is bad for the SEO of my upcoming game "Australia Did It".

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

This one is from 2022 when I decided to try drawing atmospheric landscapes 🌿

Xbox Is Planning To Shutter Peabody Award-Winning Compulsion Games https://kotaku.com/xbox-shuttering-south-of-midnight-peabody-award-compulsion-games-2000706065

this is in fact amazingly good

City Council To Vote On Whether To Open Five New Wraith Batteries Inside City Limits "No known purpose," say experts "Their claws rend flesh and their screams rend souls," says a councilperson with no name. "It's the way of the future, in the sense that the wraiths will eat the future too."

I have apparently wildly upset the Pro AI community for setting fire to an ai slop character in Minecraft as a joke. This was a fun moment where we set fire to Rome Because of the upset, I will be viciously mocking pro AI users further in future, because it's quite entertaining to do so

🔥 Feature Friday! 🔥 Don't Wake the Beast, is a roguelite stealth game, sneak through dungeons to steal treasures guarded by fierce beasts. But beware each prize you claim makes escaping more dangerous! 🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/3258580/... @betterpubpro.bsky.social

In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

Bafta has pulled a Trailer for 'The Quiet Things' from Silver Script Games in the last minute because of its heavy themes. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/indie-d... That's bad, go wishlist the game: store.steampowered.com/app/2288520/... youtu.be/vMzCEBxTPgE

"Day 063, Orbit 0979 — Huge thanks to the ground teams for helping us place a ship-to-ship call to the spacecraft of our NASA & CSA friends as they came back from their mission around the Moon – the first of its kind in 53 years!" says @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot. 🔗 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Pragmata commission. Thank you Capcom for the trust 🌙

Heerich GPU renderer + a simple context-free tree system.