Gamedevs don’t get enough appreciation for what they do, and often the biggest impact comes from people the public never hears about. Which gamedevs would YOU give an award to, and for what?

We’re very excited to announce Thinky Dailies! 🎉 Follow our thinky friend on an adventure through handcrafted daily puzzles! thinkygames.com/dail...

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

Doom studio id Software unionizes to secure AI protections, benefits: "We see the direction the industry is headed" aftermath.site/id-software-un...

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis brings back Lara Croft’s classic adventure reimagined with jaw-dropping visuals, modern gameplay, and new surprises. Arriving in 2026. Wishlist now: playtr.games/wishlistnow

Always feel bad for video game people when they start talking about the Geoffscars, assume they're in a kind of MST3K situation where they can't control whether or not they watching those awards because they've used parts of their keyboards to fashion their beloved deckbuilding roguelite mechanics

Congrats to @lissanna.bsky.social and the rest of the amazing team who helped bring this to life!

Innovation in Accessibility goes to DOOM The Dark Ages

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Pornhub has released the top most searched terms in the United States and every state searched “industrial crane lifting a dark and dripping shape from an unquiet sea” bc America is going through it,

Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry

me after one teams meeting at 9am:

how it feels to try something on in a store you have no right to try on

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

this shit is just beyond parody, man

RFK Jr’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back keeping your children alive

in the end, the future of cinema is Hundreds of Beavers

Tell me you're a game dev without telling me you're a game dev 😆

Yes, Netflix is acquiring Warner Bros. Games

Every year I buy my grandma a Christmas puzzle. This year it feels like at least 70% of the options available are CLEARLY AI art, even from established brands. I’m over here zooming in on puzzle art like a damn detective, determined not to be tricked into buy a damn AI puzzle.

They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.

best package warning graphic i've ever seen 🪶

In tonight's one shot: Me: This character is pretty low Int... do I understand this sign? DM: Great question! Roll a flat Int check for me Me:

Attn: Games User Research/UX Research folks! If you work in the games industry performing research then WE NEED YOUR HELP! The annual GUR Salary Survey for '25/'26 has gone live and your *fully anonymous* participation is immeasurably helpful for our whole field. gamesursalarysurvey.com

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

miners do not interact. you delve too greedily and too deep

it’s tiiiiime 🎄

I don’t generally rewatch TV shows. Even ones I love. So shows that want to take multi-year breaks clearly expecting their audience to binge rewatch everything before a new season for it to make are sense are just gonna lose me as a viewer 🤷‍♀️

Mentally replacing every "ChatGPT says..." or "we asked AI..." headline with "bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer."

We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion. The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”. Which is why the rage. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Once the user releases their Spirit Bomb, it's so over

In peak ‘midwestern small town energy’, my hometown airport has a grand total of 4 gates and the only store operates on the honor system

The fuck I will, CNN

This is such a huge honor to be recognized for my work and the work of my colleagues on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle & DOOM the Dark Ages! Now I get to spend my first few hours of vacation making sure my dev teams know about the 10 nominations we received. ❤️

I recommend checking out www.gamesur.com & the associated Discord if you want to get into Games UX Research, but I also want to point out that if you are already in the industry (even if you have been there for years) there is still immense value in networking & talking with others in your field!

So… in case that wasn’t clear, women rights and LGBTQ rights are not human rights… www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

we can milk it a second time too! reappearing in 60 cities in December linktr.ee/hundredsofbe...

So, in CoS we broke a teleportation portal while Strahd was chasing us through it... and rolled a d100 for what mishap would befall him. And rolled a 2. And Strahd got sent to the Nine Hells. And now our DM is having to end the session early to figure out what happens when Strahd leaves Barovia 😂

Central Illinois Slop Extraordinaire, the Horseshoe. On the bottom is toast, topped with a hamburger patty, a pile of fries, and a covered with pale cheese sauce

NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Obituary: Interplay co-founder Rebecca Heineman has passed away at 62

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor? Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark? Now available for free! Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room! Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!

we have a president who only does good things when everyone calls him a pedophile. our mission for the next 3 years is clear.

You wanna know why we're having nag line discourse in 2025? Because developers know we're fighting an attention economy war we'll lose no matter what. Players don't read, have TikTok open next to them, god forbid we are scared you miss something and then blame us for not giving you all the info.

Rip and tear until it is done? No, shred and grind until it is fun, dude 🙂🤙

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

we need a department of kerning