Cute date idea: Job security, decent pay, and a unionised games industry. 🥰 The chair of UKIE @ukieofficial.bsky.social, the trade body for the UK Games Industry thinks job security is good for her, but not for you. Work in games in the UK? Join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

Since I haven't posted about it in a while, here's some "highlights" from my site over the last couple of months - which just includes a few random pickups and mostly filling in pages with old pics/items etc. drmeva.squarespace.com Here's a few of the new pickup/collection pics.

It's been a few days already (since I've been settling in) but it was time to update drmeva.squarespace.com/portfolio :) It was a wonderful few years working with Jagex on engine support for their last few major updates, but I'm excited to be moving on to new opportunities at Arrowhead.

Game workers do not receive any residuals/royalties on shipped titles and shipping bonuses are increasingly rare. There's also no guarantee that your name will even be in the credits if you leave before ship, and studios will use this to keep you compliant. All of this can and should change.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie. Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL. More info:

Got the next artwork for my game archive site in, and again perfectly happy with the results - even it's for a inconsequential page 😅 This 404 piece was created by @cornofthebreads.bsky.social (nsfw on page) An on site example can found at drmeva.squarespace.com/404 #AstroBot #PlayStation #Artwork

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

Took me a while to find and get the process started, but finally I have the first of several artworks for my Games Archive site - and I couldn't be more pleased with the result :) This Under Construction piece was created by @cornofthebreads.bsky.social (nsfw on page) #AstroBot #PlayStation #Artwork

SIGN OUR BOYCOTT XBOX PLEDGE: We are asking gamers, game workers, streamers & journalists to join us in boycotting & divesting from Xbox, to force Microsoft to end its complicity in the genocide of Palestinians. We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com

Rebecca Heineman, a true industry pioneer and the legend behind Wizordum’s Mac OS port, has passed away after a battle with lung cancer. She will be deeply missed. If you’d like to support her family with medical or funeral costs, the GoFundMe link is attached. www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help our fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union. Help us fight back! Anything you can donate will massively help our efforts to hold Rockstar to account. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Chimparty

Frantics

Latest pickup from @vgp-videogamesplus.bsky.social Nice to see more PS4 physicals when LRG doesn't want to bother #PS4 #Switch #FoeverPhysical

Latest issue of RPM from @2old4gaming.bsky.social Fantastic stuff as expected 🫡

Latest @limitedrungames.com order, certainly took a while ... Since December 2023 in fact! Now only down to waiting on 4 orders after a long while, but I guess it'll be 5 with Bubsy coming up, can't help myself apparently. #ForeverPhysical #PS4 #Persona

Got few more VR games from @thegamecollection.bsky.social since I had a voucher. Think since there's so few new releases on disc I'm getting pretty close to have a full set of VR2 games already... doc-meva.squarespace.com/gallerys/pic... #PlayStation #PhysicalForever #PSVR2

And I've obviously been saying this a lot lately, but BDS does not expect anyone to drop everything made by Microsoft all at once. They pick very specific targets in order to get as wide a coalition as possible, and in the case of Xbox, even suggest different tiers of engagement.

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

Developing: The PlayStation Store on PlayStation 3 appears to be down

Hidden Agenda

Got the latest RPM issue from @2old4gaming.bsky.social in, cracking stuff as usual. Noticed there's a shelf in the back half of an article (by @mysticryan.bsky.social) belonging to a certain someome ... that I miss dearly 🥲 (house moving shenanigans that's been going on for nearly 2 years ...)

Latest pickup from @2old4gaming.bsky.social, including some extra goodies, notably the 30th PS anniversary pamphlet. Which while it is only a collecting of stuff from the anniversary website but it's still a greatly made and interesting trinket. #PlayStation30thAnniversary

Writing this took nearly 5 months checking store pages and collecting info on all things lbp, think Sackboy haunts my dreams now... Would like to hope that it'll be a useful reference or an interest to someone eventually ... #PS3 #LBP #LittleBigPlanet

Latest pickups, just random things from ebay. Thanks to @matpiscatella.bsky.social for the dev signed Scribblenauts, always be needing more dev stuff 🥳 #ForeverPhysical #import

New #AstroBot lvl was peak of course (nothing surprising design wise, more of a bonus have a bunch of cool shit all at once lvl.) #GOTY well deserved 💪🥳