JULY 20th! ITS HAPPENING! The Guild Reunion Movie Kickstarter goes LIVE! Please repost to help us reach all the Guildies who want to support! And sign up on the website! We're making a movie!!!!

🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky #BillC22

What could one day at #XPATL26 do for your studio? Find funding opportunities, connect with publishers/partners, and learn from industry experts including Amir Satvat, Kate Edwards, John Nguyen, Kristian Roberts, and more. June 5, Halifax  Tickets: https://xpgaming.biz/xp-game-connect-atlantic/

We've posted before but now it's official: say hello to Phantom Rowboat! 🛶 The newest indie studio in Nova Scotia comes out of the aftermath of the #Ubisoft #Halifax closure. Time to start building something of our own. phantomrowboat.com #indiedev #gamedev

Ontario worker co-op game studios. One roundtable. NO BOSSES! @covertsky.bsky.social @polyvalestudios.bsky.social @rocketadrift.bsky.social ++ more on building cooperative studios. Free, June 12 at North York Central Library. Register: tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6a15b0acf56bd86e00b22249

See you in a few days!

Hey everyone! We’re looking for volunteers for XP Game Connect Atlantic on June 5 at the Halifax Convention Centre. If you, or someone you know, would like to help out, meet people in the local game industry, and be part of the event, sign up for #XPATL26 here: wkf.ms/4nk2Ore

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

We really need the NDP to get their sh*t together FAST if we have any hope of any Canadian politicians who might try to actually deal with the climate crisis. This last century thinking is not helpful for Canadians or our environment (aka food, storms, fires, etc). I'm so tired.

What on earth is 🇨🇦 doing here? Other countries are rushing to CLOSE every backdoor they can find, concerned that the new AI capacity of Mythos and other AI models In 🇨🇦, we want to force hundreds of new backdoors by government decree. Make it make sense. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... 4/

Learn how to run and grow your studio. Sneak peek at the upcoming #XPATL26 programming. Featuring: Amir Satvat (Tencent Games) Darryl Wright (Punk Science Studios) Jade Yhap (InteractiveNB) Kate Edwards (Geogrify) Manny Hachey (Xsolla) Marcelo Careaga Passes xpgaming.biz/xp-game-conn...

Hey everyone - #XP26 Indie Pods are filling fast. There are a limited number left. Deadline is Monday, but remaining spots will likely be claimed before then. Grab your pod at xpgamesummit.com/xp26-indie-p...

XP Game Connect Atlantic docks in Halifax on June 5 Meet publishers, investors, & partners Learn from game dev experts #XPATL26 is built for developers growing their game business. Early Bird @ xpgaming.biz/xp-game-conn...

🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky #BillC22

Do you work in games? Are you tired of corporate greed taking over our industry? Do you miss when industry events were by workers, for workers? The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the #GameWorkersConference. May 22-23 ❤️‍🔥

UPDATE: 🇨🇦's house just REFUSED to accept a Senate amendment that would put a sunset clause on PERMANENT immunity to privacy law for federal political parties! LPC, CPC, and NDP did not have the courage to defend their choice; only @elizabethemay.bsky.social spoke to the obvious issues in #BillC4.

Our recent survey shows that Europe is ready to ditch US technology, in favour of private alternatives. Check out our write-up and the stats here: proton.me/blog/europea...

Momentum for a return to the OPEN web is gathering steam! It's time to break down the walled gardens Big Tech locks us into and bring back the interoperable web. A new report from Goodbot explains why. www.goodbot.ca/tech-policy/...

Is 🇨🇦 a sovereign country? Are we prepared to do what it takes to be one? We just released a five point plan to getting there – and YOU can review and endorse it! Read the Digital Sovereignty Charter and add your voice: www.openmedia.org/DigitalCharter

🇬🇧📢 At least 1200 workers from Ubisoft were on strike today ! Workers are rejecting the Guillemot dynasty's loser strategy and demanding the freedom to make good games in good working conditions. The strike will continue tomorrow and the day after ✊

🇬🇧✊🌀 Ubisoft : enough is enough! Faced with the arbitrary decision of the CEO who doesn’t even dare talking to employees anymore, unions are calling for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th.

🍕 The inaugural Atlantic Canadian worker co-op event for the videogame industry! Free pizza and travel grants available! 🍕 Register now at this link: gm4coopfutures.civicrm.org/civicrm/even... #gamedev #coops #cooperatives #atlanticcanada

Serious Q for #Privacy #CyberSecurity & #Tech peeps. I (like many) have been keeping my Twitter account around mainly to avoid scammers from scooping up my handle to scam others. Is that still the prevailing recommendation or should we 100% delete those accounts?

Drop the names of any Canadian companies you’ve seen working with ICE in the comments. I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite. Would love to gather any and all other names.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

For those of you who wondered if Elbows Up was ever coming back…. It’s not. At least not as it was. But if you haven’t deserted the feed yet, you’ll find something new in your podcast app tomorrow morning. Hope you’ll check it out!

Opening post for GM4CF! This all got kickstarted by layoffs abound in the game industry Then... our Ubisoft studio (local to Halifax, NS) was closed mere weeks after unionizing!! 😱😡 The writing is on the wall - we need more alternatives to big investor driven business! Let's learn how together

Still boycotting in my circle of friends and family. 🍁

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

This is the weekend I install Linux Mint and start testing it as my main gamedev machine. Still trying to sort out if VM or dual boot is the best option for my windows-only tools... Either way, I'm pretty excited about this!

We will be announcing the 2026 Indie Game Awards later this month. So this is a pre-announcement, we guess? Quite a few people have asked in recent days! And thanks to our generous sponsors, it’ll be free to attend ❤️ Go here for updates: @debugawards.com

Surprise layoffs are wrecking morale - and productivity - more effectively than any union ever could. People will feel unsafe because of this, the most experienced ones, able to find a job elsewhere will seek to escape that suffocating atmoshpere, leaving the juniors and yes-men, alone.

Congratulations New York!

Get ready for the latest Wholesome Snack this December 9, 2025 starting at 12pm PT / 3pm ET! Tune in for 20+ exclusive and world premiere announcements from games that inspire optimism, hope, and introspection. As always, huge thanks to @thegameawards.com for co-broadcasting!

🍁data sovereignty quest continues... Managed to untangle my business away from Microsoft & Google clouds. In the process of turning off my personal YT Premium and Google One accounts. Proton's got my personal cloud covered... testing out Qobuz for music and so far so good.

For years I've been saying "I should switch to Linux" to replace my Windows machines but could never quite make the jump since I have decades of muscle memory and tools developing on a Windows box. Today may have been the last straw to motivate me to finally make the switch...

Somebody please help me find Smokey! I've looked everywhere and can't find him 😂 #caturday

There it is…

They're everywhere these days. An interesting watch. youtu.be/Fb5hGCp3o5A?...

This is absolutely disgusting. I'm trying to calm myself before writing to the Leaders Debate Commission bc right now I'm too angry and I want to make sure my point is clear. Normalizing these disinformation & hate-mongering rags is a huge step towards a very dark path for Canada IMO.

My girls snuggling all cute this #caturday 🥰😻🥰

Aloy pouncing on Scout, about to spice up this #caturday

These elbows are up 🍁💖 Love this remake of an old classic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...

HOLD THE LINE

The current discourse is that “games media doesn’t cover indie” We’d like to use this opportunity to tell the world that we exist 👋 Debug is a print magazine covering thousands of indies Please help spread the word!

Happy Valentine's from these feisty sister kittens. #catsofbluesky #cats #kittens

Trump is talking about Canada being the 51st state so it gets normalized by the billionaire controlled press. Then, when he does go Canada what Putin did to the Ukraine people will say, but Canada wants this! Canada does not want this.

- Made sure all my groceries were Product of Canada or Mexico ... ☑️ - Cancelled Amazon Prime subscription ... ☑️ - Found new almond source from Spain so I can replace my US almonds ... ☑️ (pretty big deal in a Celiac household) So proud of my fellow Canadians leaving those US products on the shelves 🍁