Graeme Hinchliffe

I just used the "Xbox shell" (utterly terrible name used inconsistently as is MS way) for the first time. What a truly horrible broken experience that was! I guess MS don't do UX anymore?

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

I usually check out as many games as possible in Next Fest, but the tidal wave of AI trash has beaten me Non-AI indie devs please post your games below and I'll check em out instead Also @steampowered.com PLEASE add an option to filter out AI games in searches. It's killing discoverability #gaming

Awesome, 123Reg have revoked a paid for SSL, without generating a new one 1st and it looks like have triggered the domain ownership process even though its only 6 months old, the support number given in the email is invalid too. URGH. Its like they are trying to make things worse.

Every gothic horror:

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Removing AI from your feed with 4 of my illustrations✨

Loved Lucy Dreaming? Then we reckon you’ll be rather fond of Heir of the Dog, our latest #PointAndClick #AdventureGame. But don’t just take our word for it – here’s what our game testers had to say about this #IndieGame: ‘I think it’s even better than Lucy Dreaming, which is a high bar.’ 1/2

If AI takes over video game guides to such an extent that we lose all guide writers... where's it gonna steal the guides from? If nobody's making guides to begin with (because it's no longer profitable, since all of that work is immediately stolen), there's no data for the AI to steal.

Just had a very gruelling weekend hunting a well hidden bug. Got the bugger tho, yay! Big thanks to @dreamkid83.com for making wonderful noises to squish bugs to (amongst other dev related tasks :D ) #gamedev #indiedev

The Superman No Smoking Ad, but I lost the audio track and dubbed it from memory

absolutely disgusting to shamelessly gloat about vibecoding your product as you're charging ahead to devalue an entire industry and several art forms with copious amounts of AI confetti hyperslop, depriving real artists and developers of oxygen

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I wonder how much was spent on the “Let’s save water” TV ad, rather than actually fix leaks and not stuff money into shareholder pockets? :/

That's one store front updated. Coming to consoles for Halloween. Phantom Floor... #indiedev #horror store.playstation.com/en-gb/concep...

I think this hints at what the new Xbox might be called.. I am guessing "Xbox Max Ad Series Ad+" :/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smwo...

I've been asked if my indie games use AI🤮 No. I spend more time polishing and tweaking than creating it in the first place so the idea of getting slop just seems awful🔪🤖 Support real games and wishlist Gone Feral or buy The Axis Unseen + Deedlee Doo! Carkour!

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

Myth busting about Scotland's 'need' for data centres feat. angry moorhen (Follow us on insta at stopaidatacentres.scot)

Microsoft one of the largest most well know software companies on the planet, going since the year dot in terms of computers. WHY can they not write software that isn't an utter dumpster fire? I am so sick of hitting nonsense file locking errors that should not exist. #gamedev

I'm not a lawyer, but if you intentionally attempt to sink a boat with humans on board, how is that not attempted murder? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Tesco have a competition where you can win a £10,000 tech bundle with your Clubcard. Otherwise known as 16GB of RAM.

Oh my god this! Ventured into a fast food place for the first time in years a few weeks back. Stop Just let me see the menu FFS! If it wasn't for my blood pressure pills I'd have gone full Michael Douglas in Falling Down.

Bit of the ole paperwork day I think.. not all #gamedev is code and epic battles with compilers alas.

First I came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was the one coming for the Communists Then I came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because, again, I was the one coming for the Jews Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

Im starting a new pub night for game devs in Warrington (UK). It's been a while since you've done a social in my home town. I'm trialing the first one at Costello's in the town centre on the 10th. The intention is to be the 2nd Thurs of each month from the on.

State of SaaS

I just cancelled my GamePass subscription. Microsoft Account portal says it expires on the 4th of September (correct, my renewal was the 5th each month). The email confirmation says it will expire on the 5th of September. HOW do they fail at these things so badly? :D

Since im kinda new back to blue sky... ive found some starter packs of devs to follow... but also if any of you have lists I can follow to build up a good feed of cool devs/artists/writers etc please let me know

Saw this ad and had my blood boil instantly! They are marketing being unskilled as a skill now? Grrrrrrrr #NoAI

This! so much THIS! By the time I get to order I have my 1st choice and at least 1 other backup option chosen before I get to the order point.

NEW POST: Today I'm happy to announce the release of my new game. Battleteria! Read about it and play it on your lunch break here. #indiegame #pico8

Oh how I do love it when a company you have used for years makes "improvements" to their website and make it a broken mess, and then blame it's non-functioning on the customers browser. *slow clap* yup, that is the way to do it.. Can anyone recommend a domain registrar that's not mad?

I think this post about why the Manchester Mayoral election turnout was so low is possibly missing a factor. Just how terrible the post is now! I have heard of peoples postal ballots arriving ON the day of the vote! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

Big Boss Battle has had some funding, so we are looking for some new writers who are possibly looking to write about games (in exchange for game codes) to build a portfolio, and occasionally grab bounties for pocket money. It’s not a paycheck, but can be the start. Email: Dann@bigbossbattle.com