Been working on #ARCRaiders for nearly 6 years. Not long until release now, very exciting times. And you can pre-order it now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE0y...

We're releasing a dev vlog today introducing our fans to 'dynamism', the design philosophy that drove the making of THE FINALS. We hope it gives those interested some insight into what it takes to make an crazy multiplayer sandbox FPS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjUy...

We sneakily dropped a new #ARCRaiders video the other day, showcasing some of the stellar work from our small but extremely talented (and delightful) audio team, with some tasty in-game visuals to match... 🔉🎨 youtu.be/f64D7Kpbmcc

This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.

Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance 1/2

Is anyone I know going to be at #UnrealFest in Stockholm next month? Maybe see you there, if so!

I reckon Elton John must have been learning to speak Polish when he wrote the 1976 hit single "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word". Przepraszam.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

I remember once attending an animation review meeting on Teams and a person on the leadership team who was meant to be reviewing and giving notes on the work being shown was clearly in his car, driving, and not paying attention. Anyway this sounds great, can't wait to see it implemented.

He's shuffled off this coil on a crazy train

Cement mixer spits out fridge magnet haiku. Experts ask: can it run a hospital?

Sometimes I think about Wikipedia, and what they're trying to do, and what they could be, and compare their budget with the funding for LLM slop machines, and it drives me a little insane. We tried to build a library of Alexandria that would not burn, then tried a library of babel for profit.

Update (July 7, 2025)

This is super important and if anyone's not doing this, they should go and do it now.

The big drop in net worth is the day someone convinced it to stock tungsten cubes and sell them at a loss. It also - offered huge discounts on request - invented a conversation with nonexistent employee "Sarah" - told security it was delivering products in person wearing a blue blazer and red tie

there is some good stuff in here

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Hehe, @secondmentions.bsky.social might like "Gaye's boudoir ballad" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Really proud to again get to show off some of the Character and Weapon customisation I got to work on for THE FINALS Season 6! @reachthefinals.com youtu.be/7mY-fCTB8cI?...

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

This feels like a pretty fair assessment: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Something I will never understand about people is, when they're on a bus or train in a 2-seat arrangement, insist on sitting in the aisle and making other people clamber all over them to get into the window seat instead of... y'know... just moving over one seat?!

Anyone know where Kevin Bacon's left his car keys? Asking for a friend of a friend of a friend of friend of a friend.

If you un-ironically say "the future of linear content consumption", people are allowed to punch you in the face. I don't make the rules, I'd just like more people to actually follow them.

Early impressions of getting around in South Korea - the public transport is VERY good (especially buses). But they seem to like big long cars way more than Japan does, even in the city, for some reason.

Back to work tomorrow after a month of vacation. How do computers work again?

Ended up listening to a solid 50 minutes of AI-generated fake Hawaiian reggae that the taxi driver had playing on his tablet. 🙉 "Music" that was written by nobody, for nobody, with no sense or structure... absolute drivel, the auditory equivalent of biting into a piece of wax display fruit

they’re called hooves, dummy🙄

I just saw a good example of what I was talking about with chatgpt being a crackpot generating machine. A guy had started Wheeler's Spacetime Physics, and had a problem on page 2. Wheeler expressed a square root as a power of 1/2. √a = a^1/2. This is basic algebra, not physics.

So weird to me that Japan (in general, a scrupulously clean and neat country) still allows smoking indoors in many restaurants and bars.

I need you to understand It wasn't "We trained a machine to be Darth Vader, and then it started saying homophobic slurs." It was "We found a machine that says homophobic slurs, and prompted it to act like Darth Vader."

Just misread "winebar" as "webinar" and got very upset that they are anagrams and I hadn't realised until now

If he says he needs to implement a new Input Handling System for your indie game? He's lying. Rewrite the animation systems? Lying. Event broadcast systems? Lying. You, the designer need something and he says actually it's impossible or unfeasible in this codebase? Almost certainly lying.

Randomly met Haken's manager in a park in Kanazawa, lovely chap!

Thanks @liamwong.com @buckycm.bsky.social @zerocool1000.bsky.social for showing us a fun night in Tokyo!

Nice article from CNET about our #ARCRaiders game, I think they "get it". www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...

@unreal-garden.com yer bot is spammin', ben

Do you like COMPUTERS? Do you like GAMES? ...then perhaps you will like COMPUTER GAMES! 🖥️ Such as #ARCRaiders (I'm working on it at Embark) - our second Tech Test starts on Wednesday 30th April, sign up if you're interested! And enjoy this video in the meantime 🤖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTRR...

Hold on, conclave is when you’re voting a pope in, and convlex is when you’re voting a pope out.

Hey, we are doing a tech test for #ARCRaiders at the of the month! Sign up if you're interested, it's fun! youtu.be/W-NUcKbwVb8

hey, i find info about topic X is hard to find on our team. i know there's a confluence page for it, but i don't read confluence. there's an email distro & meeting series about it but my religion forbids meetings and i am illiterate. there's also the local pigeon carrier network, but i hate pigeons,

I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario

There's an @ianmcque.bsky.social drawing in here somewhere

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

Reading Phil Spencer talking about how maybe "AI" can help with ports and preservation and feeling my blood boil. What a fundamental misunderstanding of not only this tech but how games WORK.

Media-world: "Make a martyr out of her yadda yadda yadda." Normie-world: "If I got a four year jail sentence for fraud, even if it was suspended or on tag, I'd have to tell my boss, I'd be fired and I wouldn't get another job."

RIP to the legend youtu.be/MICPyrnGYwg?...