Travel Grant Round 8 is now open for Expressions of Interest. This round is targeting Gamescom, with other events allowed. Given the current situation with flights, we have risen the cap for Gamescom cohort travel for $14,000 for two people. Details here. www.nz-code.nz/funding

Once again begging you to stop saying "content" and "consume" in relation to art, literature, performance, and anything you aren't literally eating, drinking, or stuffing into a box for storage

Hear hear. www.polygon.com/game-awards-...

Our game is nominated for Most Anticipated at the Unity Awards this year 🥰

Fixed camera survival horror game The Florist announced for consoles, PC New Zealand-based studio Unclear Games has announced The Florist, a fixed camera survival horror game coming to unspecified consoles and PC via Steam in 2026.

“Everyone has their own method of coping, some more effective, or self-destructive, than others...” He gives you a meaningful look.

“Workaholics are addicted to the solace they find in extreme fatigue; it’s like the high that a marathon runner might get in her last mile,” Weike Wang writes, in an essay on work.

Keynote Speakers!! ✨ David Gaider & Liam Essler, Co-founders, Summerfall Studios ✨ The Seasons of Summerfall. Hear the story of Summerfall Studios through the lens of two of its founders, at NZGDC 2025! Get your tickets now: https://www.nzgdc.com/

Doctor: Great job, you've been born. You're a natural. Now, press [A] repeatedly to cry. Right, just like that. As a baby, crying is one of your most useful abilities

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon told reporters that Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost the plot” in the Gaza war. Luxon is facing calls for his government to recognise the state of Palestine.

another way in which LLMs make me feel like an alien as compared to their many fans: I find their default fawning conversational tone to be intensely, viscerally repulsive and suspicious.

And above all, you let life defeat you. All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die -- or overcome it.

someone should write an essay on how we've gone backwards on a very elementary understanding of what sexism is, to the point where ppl are missing the subtle and unequal ways it is wielded & just think it's like bugs bunny heart eyes at a broad

One of the biggest culture shocks for me travelling to smaller towns in rural USA was coming across places where you’d have to drive for hours to get fresh produce. Like whaddya mean there’s nowhere that sells fruit and veges?

Environmental storytelling.

Two of the best.

A former “Alligator Alcatraz” worker says detainees are subject to “inhumane” conditions — packed by the hundreds into cages without sunlight, with overflowing toilets and limited access to showers.

Stanford has not always conducted itself honorably as an institution, but I am daily awed by the levels of principle and commitment that exist among our students.

“Remember when "selling out" meant something? Gen Xers threw that accusation around like a moral hand grenade. The whole concept rested on a clear line between authentic artistic expression and commercial compromise.” oliverbatemandoesthework.substack.com/p/the-work-o...

I do sometimes complain about New Zealand feeling boring but it has its upsides. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/05/p...

When even Chris Finlayson is criticising National...

umbrella (formerly umbrella entertainment), distributor of very cool 4K blu-rays and local films, has announced a new wing dedicated to video games

This is fucked up.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

“Bluntly: Making healthy cognitive choices is hard. In a culture saturated with more accessible and engrossing forms of entertainment, long-form literacy may soon become the domain of elite subcultures.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...

“A.I.-driven propaganda is no longer a hypothetical future threat. It is operational, sophisticated and already reshaping how public opinion can be manipulated on a large scale,” write Brett Goldstein and Brett Benson.

People are drawing horny fan art of our video game. As a former horny fan art practitioner, this is a very exciting time.

Maybe I should get her to sign an NDA.

From a coastal ice cream shop - but on a rainy day #udo

I don’t know where I’d be without my group chats to crash out in.

About 80% of my grammar suggestions from Microsoft Word are “why not use a simpler word here for clarity?” No. Fuck you. I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.

NEW ZEALAND: “Live: Tsunami activity expected in NZ after 8.8 quake near Russia” www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5... - RNZ #NewZealand #Tsunami #Wellington

We've got a rare and exciting opening for a Junior Audio Designer here at PikPok in Wellington, New Zealand. Entry level roles in the games industry are rare and the audio team are particularly rad so get applying and we can make beautiful stuff together. apply.workable.com/pikpok/j/4BB...

I think about this one often. From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379 #poem #books #writing

Also my experience with Joni Mitchell. Her singing irritated me until it really, really didn’t.

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”

Got a new flatmate. She hasn’t paid any rent so far but I’m sure that’s just an oversight.

RIP Fanny Howe (October 15, 1940 – July 9, 2025)

ragdolling

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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“you come up with a mean nickname to call this guy on TV?” “sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked”