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THIS IS THE FINISHED GAME THREAD FOR 2026

Mmmm intense self hatred yummy yummy

i need all discourses about whether ai is actually useful for certain tasks or if not using it is a privilege (???) to cease immediately until they stop selling compute at a multi-billion dollar loss

RIP

19 years ago, an ambitious dream to bring an iconic book series into the world of video games came to life with the release of The Witcher. It was the start of an unforgettable path, which wouldn't have been possible without our friends at BioWare.

NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher. The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.

Mid term exam today, please send energy

genuinely shocked i haven't seen this on the tl yet with all the winstonposting

People staying on X 'because of the news you can't get here' The news on X:

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Bluesky has four kinds of users

REPORT: Zohran Mamdani has been caught taking out cop cars and pulling sick donuts in the parking lot with his friends, impeding police efficiency.

you can tell this guy started in the games industry because i don't know a single woman who would leave their drink unattended within 300 miles of him

I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive

This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

I think we underestimate the appeal of antigambling politics because every problem gambler is surrounded by 3-10 people who are absolutely sick of their shit.

Merry Christmas. Have a #vo demo! Hey! My name's Evan Maple, and I'm a voice actor! If you need someone to sound suave, crass, or some other third thing, just let me do the talking. Written, directed and edited by the wonderful @tomschalk.bsky.social! Art by the amazing @tinted-mint.bsky.social!

i really wish HLTB was integrated into steam sometimes. im in the mood for a short game to play but i can't tell from looking at my library what's short or not

Grammy-winning composer Austin Wintory has shared his proposed soundtrack for BioWare’s now-cancelled Mass Effect 5. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/grammy-...

this is purely my own gut feeling and i’d love actual devs input, but i get the sense that on top of everything else collapsing, one of the big struggles in games is that the Normal Iterative Sequel, reasonably scoped and made on a quick schedule, seems to sell like six copies now

DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN READ ANY ALL-CAPS TEXT IN DAVID LYNCH'S VOICE?

professor recommended one of the members of my cohort watch Zeitgeist. very concerned

just a reminder that there are a lot of great videogames coming out - certainly more in the indie realm than when the indie boom started in the late 00's/early 2010's. and it is absolutely a failure of the larger game industry to not make that reality feel at all worthwhile or meaningful.

‪A lot of people think I’m joking when I say we need to traumatize children with movies again, but NO I 100% mean it.‬

This is what Love Lies Bleeding got right about the 80s: everything in the 80s wasn’t neon and bright colors and crazy prints. Everything was fucking Brown

Didn’t think this was a hot take but I don’t think BioWare made a game even remotely bad enough to “justify” it being shut down “BioWare was struggling for years,” yeah, and even its worst games weren’t as bad as some garbage that’s let slide and it’s fucking weird to imply the team “deserved” this.

Because big tech doesn't do customer service, we are being inundated with AI-generated emails begging us for help.

start paying artists you fucks!!!! the potential of you reaching nirvana depends on it!

i honestly and truly thought that said cum fart

Microsoft offering to buy out over one-in-four employees to cut costs is I mean I'm not an economics major but I feel like we have to be entering the endgame of circular financing and runaway capital expenditure soon-ish, right

my most shocking take: if someone is good at making videogames and they want to keep making them, they should get to keep making them

You deserve AI-generated content that rises to our high standards.

She's not just "a congresswoman", she's the co-author of the biggest brazilian worker rights bill of the decade, if not of the century (it eliminates the possibility of having job positions with 6 work days per week)

introducing my ocs