The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.

Some hopefully wise words from the QA trenches: if your placeholder assets aren't making everyone on the project say "oh my god this asset is so bad, we can't possibly ship the game with this in there!" they aren't placeholder assets, that shit will slip through.

Labor should be organized by the people providing it, and rather than being a valid career where you can jump from company to company to extract maximum value from them, C-suite roles should be elected positions where you answer to the people who make up the company's work force.

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That's one way to get the union busting out of the news cycle I guess.

Just to be 100% clear: do not *trust* your employers - that's super silly. The relationship is economical, not based in loyalty, trust, or kindness. There's no judgement in forming a union, just understanding that capitalism requires a risk of financial loss to get companies to do the right thing.

EA employees and UVW-CWA slam Saudi-led EA buyout, call for regulatory scrutiny

Sometimes I question what I'm even doing with my life for various reasons, but today I will just allow myself to be greatful. BF6 is out and the manifestation of everyone's effort (however ephemeral mine may be in this case) is meeting players. If you've been waiting, I hope you enjoy it. PTFO!

Oh. Good...

Dude really, really, really wants to do some war crimes huh?

I'm not about to do anything rash, but if recent reports are indeed true I may need to keep my eyes open a bit more than usual and be ready to rip the cord.

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

parts of skate are magnificent

A common misconception! The petard is the bomb, you are what's way up there.

The fridge gave out today so I had to take care of that. That's what I get for thinking I was being proactive and did good with some other outstanding chores over the weekend I guess. Ah well, at least the freezer section is still working fine. *knocks furiously on wood*

I am now officially of the age and persuasion where I excitedly send my friends pictures of my new storage solutions for all the games, films and other crap I have in my cabinets. It bought me basically an entire shelf of space! Fantastic! Now, I only need to get three boxes more...

I've only seen episode 1 so far, but I think that Alien: Earth may potentially have the sauce. Not that I was doubting Noah Hawley overmuch. I also want to say that "The Mob Rules" by Black Sabbath was an inspired choice as the outro for the episode.

"We understand as Black people that our fight - is the Irish fight - the Irish fight is the Palestinians’ fight" - Punk duo Bob Vylan make their first appearance in Ireland since their much talked about Glastonbury set back in June.

A list of only the confirmed children massacred by Israel's pure evil and relentless genocide in Gaza. Many estimations are that the actual amount of adults and children murdered by Israel could be double, or even triple. They will likely remain unnamed. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

If IGN has layoffs, nobody in games press is safe. If Microsoft has layoffs, nobody in platforms is safe. If Ubisoft and Bungie and NetEase have layoffs, nobody in game development is safe. If the Romeros get their funding pulled, no studio is safe. It's rough out there, right now.

Raven Software's union has ratified their first contract, three years after forming. Wins include a guaranteed 10-percent wage increase over two years, on top of merit-based raises

Some old colleagues have a new game on the way and personally, I think it looks pretty cool. Huge congrats to everyone at To The Sky on the reveal! youtu.be/qF4thNOpgSI?...

There's no anomaly here. People, globally, volunteer their time to powerful public goods the moment they're not actively terrified that they'll lose their home, their food, and their freedom. Which means that capitalism requires us all to live in fear, always - because it can't compete with free.

Don't make me tap the sign. (It goes without saying that this is exponentially more important when touching on public health and safety)

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Going through an unusually sunny and warm Swedish summer with the dual debuffs "cannot handle heat above 23° C" and "pigmentation -25":

Over the past three months, I learned everything I could about Final Fantasy – from its rich history to its massive cultural impact and the many in-jokes shared among its fans. In time, I understood why it has captured the hearts of players everywhere. 🎥: youtu.be/II7MQKqrcj8

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Critical Hit is an RPG podcast that started in 2009, and save for holidays, and occasional tech issues, has released a new episode every week since then. Episode 792 dropped last week. We started with d&d and have done so many more systems since then. majorspoilers.com/category/cri...

This game had such an impact on my teen years that 25 years later I still find myself humming the end credit theme at random times during the day. I love this game and will keep saying we need a remake. #VagrantStory @square-enix-games.com

Update (July 7, 2025)

Last bit of the big pieces in place - using animations in gif export. Now to fixing bugs, workflows issues, and general polish. #gamedev #lowpoly #screenshotSaturday

Started prototyping an animation tool for picoCAD 2. Main idea is to have clips that control a certain property of a mesh and then place them on timeline. Should work right? 😅 #gamedev #lowpoly #3d

The images of him being detained by ICE agents look more like a ITYSL sketch than any still from an ITYSL sketch.

Throwing a massive sale on Steam and itch! Get picoCAD as well as all my games for really cheap! Steam store.steampowered.com/bundle/38093... Itch itch.io/s/155911/sum... #pixelart #gamedev #screenshotSaturday

It's Juneteenth. Here's @levarburton.bsky.social reading Lift Every Voice and Sing. #BlackLivesMatter youtu.be/GNEPwwv56DY

After the Direct, I feel confident in saying that the fanfics for this game are going to be WILD.

Irony is dead, risen, dead again, riddled with bullets for good measure, buried 12 feet down and paved over in order to build a Walmart.

The timeline is generally dark but there are some glimmers of light from now and then.

play killer7!!!!! it’s often only $5 on steam and it’s one of the greatest and most unique games ever made

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I'm glad that I can still identify a Suda51 game on sight.