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This is huge. Myself and many of my coworkers and friends who were dismissed suddenly last year were working toward this exact moment and while I’m sad we’re not there anymore to see it through I sincerely hope we see the cohort at Rockstar make the right decision 🤞

so, I kept waiting for a "quiet" day to post about it, but considering *everything* I'm realizing that day isn't coming so I might as well just start talking Some friends and I, including @slothysunday.bsky.social and @valkwise.bsky.social, are making a game. store.steampowered.com/app/4462890/...

This was an absolutely insane project to be a part of, and I'm very proud of what our team managed to achieve with it!

Never let them tell you how to protest or that you shouldn’t protest. Never let them confuse protests and parades

Settle in. The show is about to begin. Virtue and a Sledgehammer launches on Oct 27, but you can play the VIRTUE: Prologue teaser exclusively via @pantaloon.io right now. Play free: playbill.pantaloon.io/games/virtue...

Virtue and a Sledgehammer is out in less than 5 hours. store.steampowered.com/app/3743260/...

They somehow want a world where they can steal everyone else's work in an instant and get Claude to make AAA games without a workforce but also somehow still be able to sell $70 remakes and remasters

Happy to announce that Queen’s Domain is Steam Deck and Machine VERIFIED ✅ Soon players can enjoy our retro-fantasy action RPG either in the palm of their hands or via a cube! ⚔️ Launching October 30th!!

So, wait, has NaNoWriMo rebranded as "Novel November", paid for by ProWritingAid, which used to be a spell/grammar checker but now is (you guessed it) an "'AI' grammar checker"--in short, yet another way for a griftslop machine to grab human-written text? Do I have that right?

It's mentioned in the article, but EA developers across multiple studios are being heavily encouraged (though, not mandated) to use generative AI technology such as Claude. This is not going down well with staff, but management is adopting a 'get with it, or get left behind' mentality.

Cannot believe I have to say this, but here we go - The #SaveMassEffect petition/thing is not only tone deaf, but actively harmful to the industry at large. Let me explain…

Go see Wildwood. Seriously, don’t wait—go see Wildwood. What a piece of art. The love for the manual craft, for story that doesn’t hold back, for filmmaking that is not here to answer to stockholders, it weaves all through it. Incredible stuff.

Key figures behind EA buyout accused of exchanging billions for political favours

Check out our interview with Cunyan Ma about this project here👉 techequity.us/2026/09/30/c... And one of her data sources here👉 dataworklandscape.org

In China, the AI bubble has already burst reut.rs/4BlW1Uh

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In the distant future, humanity has been subjugated. You are the Operatives. Enforce Doctrine's Will Operatives Revolve is a scifi/biohorror slay the spire-like that I wrote. It releases next month and you can wishlist it now! store.steampowered.com/app/3004810/...

It's even better than what people are saying. boxd.it/gYqmd7

If you're a Steven Universe fan, you'll recognize a familiar name in the corner of this Invader Zim fan art sent in to Game Informer as envelope artwork in 2002: Rebecca Sugar! Always neat coming across stuff like this. 📖: Game Informer, October 2002

Really good and obviously extremely infuriating story here.

Okay, Folha called it, it's official. A hearty GO FUCK YOURSELF to every last living fascist

‘Big City Greens’ storyboard artist Gabi Rodea encourages parents to have their children see ‘Wildwood’ for its mature storytelling.

We must expect that Meta's interference is happening in other elections around the world *right now*. This isn't just a one-off. Meta has proved repeatedly they are committed to advancing far-right agendas worldwide, are serial liars, and are flagrantly indifferent to the dismantling of democracies.

IT SAVED ME I LOVE ART I LOVE ART SO MUCH

Plugging away at Sovereign Tower on steam deck and it is impossibly charming, both in its gorgeous sun-soaked art and its knowing playfulness. Great to play a game that feels like the devs *loved* making.

I love being reminded that the audience really doesn’t give a shit about the developers. Like, forget that one of the most influential studios in our industry was just executed by its publisher, just make sure the product continues on the assembly lines!

Please don’t wait for a video essay to tell you to play Penguin Colony.

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

Secrets and danger lurk around every corner in this retro-fantasy RPG ⚔️ What’s under the cloche? Find out soon… Queen’s Domain launches in 5 days!

TELL THEM TO SHOVE IT twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338...

The best way I've found to avoid getting sucked off into the "Chill hiphop longplay AI videos" rabbithole is specifically looking for a video of a guy in a tiny space with some decks. Definitely recommend spots like Ninja Tune.

SLOK: “.. Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493. .. Mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One of the final events of #NACIS2026 was touring the American Geographical Society map library where Karen Wynn Fonstad’s Tolkien maps and others are housed. Like a Narnia atlas planned but never published.

but at least it got good results for labo-*puts hand to ear* wait. wait i'm getting an update from the newsroom

Hand Crafted Jam is running for the first time next month! A week long game jam celebrating human made creations Prizes to be announced soon, check it out. itch.io/jam/hand-cra... #GameDev #IndieDev #GameJam

This is Laika’s magnum opus. The story is simple, but gripping. The world feels alive and dangerous. The danger itself is real (people DIE in this). The animation is so good, I forgot it was stop motion at parts. Art in motion on screen.

I heard people wanted incredible indie games without any slop. So everyone’s buying Virtue and a Sledgehammer right??

The idea of the AI developer as someone burgeoning with wonderful, never before seen ideas who just needed the tools to realize them is by and large a fantasy. The reality of the AI developer is someone producing spam at volume who has no ideas of their own, so just clone something popular.

I wish I was exaggerating, 16 games from one dev, all AI slop, all clones of something else, all pumped out in the space of months. That's my experience of what AI tools are enabling, not creativity, not anyone's dream game, but spam. Constant, low effort, neverending, AI generated spam.