Gemma Driscoll

I appreciate that people want a new Mass Effect, but the future where fans advocate for the work itself and not the people who make it is the one the vultures at EA want. If you'll take it however you get it, they can keep treating people who make what you love as expendable.

"oh someone else will buy bioware or fund new studios or get the IP" WITH WHOSE MONEY

I just have to go about my day with this

If you're an #indiegamedev #indiegames participating in Next Fest, and you are NOT using genAi poppycock, feel free to put your steam page here if it makes it easier for folks to find your game. I will share and try to get eye balls for you.

If I don’t have a silly haha I will have a not silly cry cry

Casting a net of questionable size here, if you’re an ex-BioWare dev (or know of one who may not see this) working on something cool you’d like featured in a roundup at Kotaku, drop it below. Store page links helpful, and let me know what your role was at BW. Projects big and small welcome! RTs plz!

The influx of AI slop on a dead internet has done more to get my screen time under control than my parents ever did and that is the only victory it is having in this house

PAX PAX PAX PAX

me steph courtney n mckenzee got together to talk about cards!! i love to talk about cards!! please watch!

Hello! I'm in Melbourne until Sunday. Looking to connect with Asian-Australian game developers, especially those from Southeast Asian diaspora. Mostly to yap about @seagshowcase.bsky.social 🙏 Reposts appreciated! 🇦🇺

I told @nomibelle.bsky.social I’d finish Silent Hill Townfall before I left for MIGW (tomorrow morning) and I’m being so brave about it

Proud to say I’ve never used chat gpt once. I delude myself into thinking fake people are in love with me the way real freaks do: self insert fanfiction

I’m so bad at promo but I’ve been doing a series called ✨The Indie Game Gathering✨ to rant about games with demos out that you should play (so I have someone else to talk to about them)! It’s been a great outlet for yapping, dev chats and remembering the joy gaming can bring youtube.com/@geeofdee

Valve is cockblocking me from R18 games, Bluesky is routinely crash tackling me away from my DMs, LADs took away the werewolf, PlayStation is making me go to FB Marketplace. AO3 you’re all I’ve got left to keep me sane 🙏

So what do I do if I don’t have a credit card gang? (Debit card does not work)

DLSS 5 this one I dare you

I hope the Xeno in the new Alien game is slicked up to hell. Just a real wet monstrosity. I wanna be able to see my reflection in its jellybean of a dome as it comes lunging at me from the shadows

What an informative, well curated list you should definitely click on 💖

So I can’t read and missed the PAX media pass deadline so the pre-pax planning I had planned to eventually plan isn’t going great BUT I’m gonna be haunting the indie section and my email is open if you’re down to yap!

Y’all Splatoon Raiders is very fun and I have been taken to task eating my previous criticisms before launch (that I kept in my brain but trust they were very judgemental). Thanks @superjumpmagazine.com for letting me yap!

Hey! Did/Do you work at Saber Interactive? Were you replaced by AI (or do you suspect you were?) Wanna talk about it? Please get in touch. You can do so via discord @adashtra or Signal @adashtra.87 or even email aparrish@kotaku.com Reposts greatly appreciated

I fear I’m losing my sparkle. Time to boot up Alice Madness Returns again

Every day I wake up and know no piece of music will ever have the same chokehold on me that Vampire Knight’s opening theme does

There’s community in hating a level so much in a game and then going to reddit and realising you’re not the only one and in fact it is just very bad 😇

OI! This bundle has over 100 games including the extremely very good Arranger. Check it out! it goes to a good cause

Continuing the tradition of not sleeping from October 5-19th 🙌

Doing that classic sick thing where I reminisce about when I wasn’t sick. Oh how time flies, oh how I have squandered such vitality. May the dark claim my soul and the migraine cap calm my demons

Despite enjoying a lot of media/pop culture that have huge fanbases I don’t generally get into fandoms. I do however collect a small pocket of feral freaks in a group chat that swear under an oath of mutually assured destruction and frankly I think that’s the better way to go

This is a very good read and I massively applaud Jessica for writing about an experience that I can imagine would’ve been both incredibly jarring in the moment and nerve wracking in the aftermath

My favourite thing to do in Black Flag Resynced so far has been to create spontaneous conga lines of guards coming to investigate the same whistling bush they just watched their buddy disappear into

I want to re-emphasize one part of this Xbox story: Half of the 3,200 cuts are happening today and half are happening in the next 12 months. In other words, even people who survived today's layoffs will have to spend the coming year wondering if they're going to be next.

This has probably been said before but it warrants being said again: In these types of layoffs, what happens to all the juniors? This industry cannot survive without cultivating the talent of our upcoming fresh developers. What cause do they have to pursue a career this volatile?

Xbox has laid off 1,600 staff and divested from four studios. The number of layoffs will rise to around 3,200 over the next 12 months Double Fine and Compulsion Games will go independent, while Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have been sold to undisclosed buyers.

i'm not shocked that the ESA doesn't have anything it wants to say about this, but i'm still irritated about it

Hi! I'm the music composer and sound designer for DREDGE and I am officially looking for new work !! If you've got a cool game that needs audio of any kind. Please reach out. My DM's are open. Here's a few of the cool games I've done the music and sound design for! 🔊🎵 #gamedev #indiegamedev

Another beautiful day at the banging your head into a wall factory