Amazon putting the "Rufus" button right next to the "All" menu is actually be a crime.

GW doing something based for once. What a wild start to 2026

Our statement concerning the decision to not grant interim pay relief to the member's fired by Rockstar. We remain confident in the strength of our case against Rockstar Games and we reiterate our firm belief that Rockstar broke the law when it summarily dismissed 31 union members.

PMG have just released their excellent video covering the situation at Rockstar. Thanks to @chrisbratt.bsky.social for this great and important piece of journalism. You can check it out here: youtu.be/dnuipPQDd_w?...

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

If I ever for a 3D personal project in the near future 100% these little guys will find their way into it!

Almost done! Each character comes with 30 animations and is CC0/public domain licensed so they can be added in any of your games or projects! ✨ (Coming... early next week? Probably!)

[Content Warning: Cartoon Gore] Dynamic wound masking. It was surprisingly trivial to set up. Limiting it to one wound location as I'm using Primitive Mesh Data and it takes up 4 of my 32 total vars. #CherubArt #UE5 #GameDev #Bunny

The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain has asked a judge to grant the fired GTA 6 developers interim relief at a preliminary employment tribunal hearing while Rockstar Games denies a number of points made by the union. https://bit.ly/4bkXRtY

This is perhaps a good time to mention that I attended this preliminary hearing at the start of the week, met some of the fired union members in its aftermath and have been able to review Rockstar's evidence in-person for myself. We'll have more to share once the result has been announced.

Oh yeah @backloggd.com also supports recaps for patreon supporters so I got my data there too! backloggd.com/u/Reicha7/re... I don't use the site for individual sessions, just start and finish points and the site isn't great for handling demos but it's still super cool to see it all!

Giving away copies of Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 to help boost my profile here on BlueSky and leave the other place! Here's the first one, be quick to claim; kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-...

I was unsure about E33 being my top pick with that gen-AI discovery that was hastily patched out. Maybe this is me giving an unfair exception cos it's game that I adored but I wanted to give some benefit of the doubt here and hope that the backlash to even using AI "placeholders" is taken on board.

My 2025 @backloggd.com digest. All the games I started and/or finished last year. Bit of a shorter list this time but part of that is less demos. Aiming to bit a better this year. You can check out the list for yourself here: backloggd.com/u/Reicha7/li...

Happy birthday to the one and only, Hayao Miyazaki.

The extent to which Games Done Quick has helped to steer the larger speedrunning community - one of the most hardcore video game enthusiast subcultures there is - into becoming something so welcoming, inclusive and supportive astonishes me

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

It's kinda funny how the tech bros rapidly shifted from "a JPG can belong to someone in particular, you can't just use it!" to "i made this machine that steals JPGs and plagiarizes them"

This game is the reason I am a game dev. Will always hold a special place in my heart. Did a replay (using the dogshit remake but with the classic graphics) and certainly it's a bit different to how I remember but ultimately it doesn't matter because of how important it is to me.

Happy tenth anniversary to photographer Joel Goodman’s classic image which by rights should be hanging in the Louvre.

Came down to the wire with finishing E33 the other day but pretty happy with my picks for the year. So wild that we had a year of games where Hollow Knight was not goty!

1 week reminder to start finalizing those GOTY nominations! The event ends on January 6th, 2026 with results going live shortly after. Vote today: backloggd.com/goty/2025/

Backloggd recap is up! Pretty accurate to my own digest lists (which I will keep maintaining despite this being a thing) but some cool stats all the same! backloggd.com/u/Reicha7/re...

Can't wait for the overwhelming results of this consultation to be completely ignored and AI companies proceed with legal impunity to completely strip-mine all creative work in order to make line go up.

🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright: - 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is) 🧵 1/2

$1 million for a Game Awards Trailer is a way over my budget. So, I'm going to post my Cat train idle game here for free and reposting is free as well! What a great deal!

We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games. Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏

For all the naysayers, I can assure you the ai-made advertisement had as many middle-management meetings as any other ad

Sometimes I wish that more stuff that sounds like a joke actually was.

"Grand Theft, not wage theft": Rockstar protest in NYC draws tech workers, members of multiple unions aftermath.site/grand-theft-...

late last week, workers of different stripes gathered outside rockstar's nyc office for a protest in solidarity with fired devs in the uk/scotland. the message, as fired rockstar workers head into a hearing this week, is that they've got global support, and bosses can't hide

Our statement on the recent layoffs affecting workers at Coatsink, Splash Damage, Glowmade & Square Enix, putting over 300 workers at risk of redundancy in the run up to Christmas. If you work in the UK games industry, join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

We lost a legend today. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa played Shang Tsung in the 1995 Mortal Kombat film and sadly passed away at age 75. We had the privilege of his portrayal on the first MK film but also as an amazing voice actor in the Mortal Kombat 11 game. (1 of 2) youtu.be/Dq4TZPg3kOs

the world is not ready for this knowledge moonanagames.itch.io/80-songs-pack #gamedev #musicsky #vtuber

Report: Rockstar fired staff after Slack policy changes prompted discussion in external DIscord www.gamesindustry.biz/report-rocks...

I hope you're catching up on those recent releases as the Backloggd Game of the Year event returns on December 2nd! Choose your favorites for each of the categories and earn a profile badge along the way!

my partner and i can no longer buy a home together because they were fired by Rockstar, without warning, *checks notes* for talking about working conditions with their colleagues in a private union discord server. 🙂

EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum". PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...

"All these workers have ever tried to do is discuss their pay and conditions to improve them, so they can make a game loved by millions."

NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated. I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble. But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash. Waiting for the feds? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

The results are very funny to see but it is a bit of a shame that the conclusion of the article is still "keep using LLMs, just don't use them for actual research"

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

Cloverpit is amazing but also I am furious!

With my latest Visual Studio update copilot has fully attached itself like a barnacle. I had to switch it off in a couple places so here were my findings: In Tools->Options there's a whole copilot section and also a "hide" option in Environment->General

happy transgender day of remembrance thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly please live 💜

"I code so others can dream." Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer. Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...

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