Our industry does have peer-voted awards, the most visible being DICE, Game Developers Choice Awards, BAFTA. There are scores of smaller developer-led awards too. We do have spaces to celebrate and uplift one another, please support and watch these shows! The teams work hard for the devs!

At least the degree to which everyone is pissed off right now is showing up at the ballot box. With shifts like this, did California even need redistricting to flip 5 seats in 2026?

Great piece that drips truth & true love for LA: “The ungovernability of Los Angeles and the beauty of its baseball make strange alchemy in 2025, the pride of the free city under siege. The big stars are immigrants while masked federal agents creep around the corner.”

Mass exodus of Dodger fans when Blake Treinen’s name was announced. One fan in my section “are you FUCKING KIDDING ME DAVE” Why sit in parking lot traffic for 2 hours when ths Dodgers manager has conceded the game?

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

This picture is from the start of this game

"i want to go to sleep as soon as possible" same shohei

Oh my god, Dave Roberts is a madman

2025 postseason:

Who could have predicted that Cal would become the Alabama of the ACC (only team in their conference to lose to FSU over the last two seasons)

The big appeal of Latin mass is that there's zero percent chance you'll ever hear anything that might challenge you to improve yourself or change your behavior.

The City of Los Angeles and @mayor.lacity.gov are getting more international pressure to reign in LAPD's use of force on journalists. The world will be watching when the Olympics, World Cup and Super Bowl are here. If LA wants to continue to be a global city, we need to put an end to this madness.

Big news 📢 Laser Dance is coming to Early Access on Meta Quest 3/3s on ✨Nov. 6th!✨ In the meantime, make sure to wishlist it here➡️ bit.ly/3W0huQf

Namco gifting us a brand new Shigeru Matsuzaki song for Katamari is one of the best things to happen this year www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQoO...

We're saying goodbye to six wonderful folks on our team this week at @outerloopgames.bsky.social They've been part of the team for years and unfortunately we got hit with some unexpected US tax changes, a port cancellation, and new project pitches that are going slow. It's a rough year.

Something that ran through my head as I saw descriptions for Steam Next Fest games: if the project uses gen AI, it’s an instant skip Yes, even if it’s “just” for store assets However it’s intended, it LOOKS like an active gap in your craft, and there’s infinite other games to spend my time on

Shoutout to ACCN for giving us this sequence of Brent Key stepping off the team bus at Duke, immediately seeing a bomb sniffing dog with a "DO NOT PET" vest, and asking if he can pet the dog

The next big surprise in college football will be blue blood programs trying and failing to poach coaches like Kenny Dillingham, Clark Lea, and Brent Key because the NIL era has made it possible for them to compete for championships at their alma maters.

My Truck Was Self-Drivin', Now I'm Stuck Self-Lovin'

California! Go drop off your ballots today to vote YES on prop 50. Getting this lil email that your vote was received *AND* counted feels so good. 🥰

Getting a troubling amount of use out of this screen shot.

Well, they aren't called the Goodgers

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th [Sun rises] [Sun keeps getting bigger] BUCK: yes [World engulfed by flames] BUCK: oh god yes

Newsom has disappointed me so much lately that I was expecting a veto on this. Really glad he signed it, despite the objections of LA's mayor and city council.

UNC has been outscored a combined 129-94 so far this year, a -35 point margin. If Cal outscores UNC by two touchdowns next Friday night in Berkeley and Belichick quits when this report suggests, he'll leave UNC with a -49 point margin, exactly matching the 49 year age gap with his girlfriend.

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

I live in the most progressive city in the most progressive state, and the biggest barrier to passing progressive policies hasn't been Trump - it's our mayor and governor being so focused on their ambitions for higher office that they refuse to lead on anything that doesn't poll at 70% approval

Baby Steps (2025)

This stuff is plainly evil and it’s frankly comical that so many people stand to defend it from even a technical perspective under present conditions.

QUANTUS TREMOR EST FUTURUS

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

My colleagues at Bloomberg report that the $20 billion debt in the EA deal is expected to be rated single-B — meaning it is considered a "junk" loan, or one that is high-risk and speculative, typically offering high interest rates. Which the new EA will have to pay www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

This @superjoost.bsky.social analysis is good.

Yup. Just servicing the interest on $20 billion of debt likely wipes out all of EA's net income and then some. It's gonna be painful.

after a weekend of fun overtime college games, this was a good reminder of how terrible the NFL's overtime is

Look I'm not an expert but I don't think this is what the Packers defense wants to look like

Surviving a game we didn't deserve to win because of a bad officiating call - is this what it's like to be a ranked ACC road team?

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

Hoos?

If you thought EA was aggressive with monetization before, just wait until they have $50B in debt on the books.

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i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

did not expect this to get funnier with age

Absurdly punishing for the teams that were already scheduling tough nonconference opponents. Depending on when this goes into effect, Georgia Tech could play 12 P4 games in 2026 and 2027.

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