We're coming back from break for more party games, and already at $78! Only $22 more until we unlock the merch and free game raffle. Come hang out! #VTuber #ENVTuber #VSky

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ICYMI: 1000xRESIST is in a bundle with the fantastic Caves of Qud! That’s right!! You can buy both award-winning narrative titles for 25% off!!! A deal so good that we qud not believe it at first,,, 😏 okay we’ll see ourselves out BUT WE HOPE TO SEE Y’ALL IN THERE Link to the bundle below! ⬇️

With Critical Reflex being such a major player in the indie space, these accusations of covered up sexual harassment and unfair labour practices are all deeply disappointing and distressing. I hope this all gets tackled quickly and decisively. noisypixel.net/critical-ref...

Clair Obscur’s now confirmed Gen-AI usage during the development process has caused their IGA debut and GOTY wins to be retracted.

If you're wondering what the Wanderstop team has been up to since the game released: it's this

today’s the day!!!!! my first ever competitive stream event and of course it’s nightreign 😌 come hang out and cheer our team on!! ✨ twitch.tv/elliejoypanic ✨

As a disabled guy, I don't care that much about a few abled people faking disabilities. My concern lies with the myriad disabled people who have talked themselves into thinking they aren't disabled and hurt themselves over and over trying to stay invisible.

1000xRESIST made me realize i was holding myself back re: the stories i wanted to see & create. a game in which almost every major character is a WOC can exist, deserves to exist, & should exist. + it's one of the best written games ever. deeply honored to help craft sunset visitor's next game. 💖

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If you think David Walliams is having a bad Christmas now, just wait to see if the rest of the somehow even worse allegations against him get made public. Such an open secret in the comedy industry that even I, a fucking nobody, heard the whispers.

This holiday season we're excited to launch the first official DLCs for Trombone Champ: "UNDERTALE + DELTARUNE," "Celeste," and "Pizza Tower!" We worked hard to do each of these legendary games justice! All three are available on Steam today! 🎉

Sad to see the state of the industry.

Commonwealth Games struggling for interest and relevancy but I'm sure selling the TV rights to put it behind a subscription paywall will help 🙄 although wtf TNT are doing bidding for it in the first place is also baffling

YES! this is what techbros who have let their creative selves wither call "procrastination" or "inefficiency" and try to technologise away, not understanding that it is the source of creativity and imagination and everything good

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

If you want an excellent video explainer for why we created @nogamesforgenocide.com, People Make Games just made one for you. After watching it, think about whether you might want to pledge to boycott Xbox and then sign up if you do.

HI THIS IS NOW! I’m fundraising for @rspcaoffficial.bsky.social playing Two Point Museum!! Stop by and name a staff member ANYTHING YOU WANT for a £15 donation! also keeping my fingers crossed a @tiltify.com Santa might stop by today and Claus My Cause cause we are SO close to $100k on tiltify 👀

competitive Nundertaker incoming 👀 catch me live on my channel on saturday for the @bandainamcousa.bsky.social Creator Collective Nightreign Randomizer Challenge!! I’m teaming up with two other creators to see how far we can get in Deep of Night runs with increasing relic restrictions! ✨

Our Discorders answered the question, 'what if the games of 2025 were Simpsons stills?' Judge the results for yourself.

made it to 2K thanks to generous friends and folks! it will give us safe housing and necessities for a month, but it's also 1/4 of the goal, and I need a lot more help to be able to stay here, have a short rest, get medical check-ups, and of course afford costs of receiving a new residency permit

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

it’s deck the souls bosses day!! I’m teaming up with /totally_kaal & /AlasElizabeth to take down as many Bloodborne bosses as we can in co-op while spinning a challenge wheel as a part of the annual Firekeepers stream team event! but first, some indies 😎 ✨ twitch.tv/elliejoypanic ✨

game development means that sometimes characters just become bald

"I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art" just to make reference, get ideas from and outline composition lmao just 90% of what concept is🤣

Concept art, ideating, temp and placeholder art is where the magic happens. It's also a place for more junior folks on a team to contribute work and get better at it. There is no GenAI replacement for that experience and collaboration. It's going to hurt the team and project in the long term.

Mentions here they're replacing the *reference* part with AI and I just want to re-iterate that receiving an AI ref sheet as an artist is literally worse than handing over a blank sheet of paper. It tells us *nothing*. Literally just tell us the prompt you put into AI, we can find something better.

The use of generative AI has led to some pushback at Larian, "But I think at this point no one at the company is willing to lose their jobs in a collapsing industry for an argument they wont win," Vincke meant.

no Swen, they have to be “more or less ok with the way you’re using it” because the CEO is pushing it on the entire studio so hard opposition will put a target on their back in an extremely unstable industry undergoing mass layoffs every other week. unbelievably disappointing, @larianstudios.com

what happened to just talking together and using your brain to have ideas man, it cant be this fucking hard

Consider this the battle pass for your favorite creators, artists, streamers, musicians, writers, designers, etc. 💖

Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints. Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.

consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.

Having one of those 24 hours where things keep going wrong so I'm going to hunker down and watch Bob's Burgers in bed

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The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht

✨FUNDRAISER ALERT✨ I'm teaming up with @twopointstudios.bsky.social to raise money for @rspcaoffficial.bsky.social to help support animal welfare efforts this holiday season! tune in to streams Thurs & Fri for fundraising chaos and the brand new Two Point Zooseum DLC! tiltify.com/@elliejoypan...

my dual monitor stand just broke which was fun to deal with at 10:30pm 🫠

In addition to accessibility, this is another reason to use alt text. Especially when posting pictures of people and screenshots of articles. Muted terms respect the alt text. If someone is muting news of a person, show, movie, IP, etc. Bluesky won't show it to them if it appears in the alt text.

You really can just follow a ton of cool artists and fill your timeline with their sick as hell art, it rules

We enjoyed ‘to a T’ so much that we played through the entire game and then 100%’d it whilst doing our coverage for Debug #9 It’s a real shame that more people haven’t checked it out

new week, still need at least 750 Euros in the next few days so we have safety until mid-January and ideally would be able to raise the remainder as well to be able to stay here thank you everyone

CEO is an incel, got it

This is devastating. One of my favourite games of the year, To a T is a beautiful slice-of-life narrative with some of the best disability messaging I’ve seen in games. Please play it!

The news from Bondi is fucking awful. Don't really know what else to say except my thoughts go out to the victims and their friends and families

CEOs

every year people get more mad at the game awards but every year they keep watching it. stop hate watching. stop giving them money and encouragement through viewing. stop supporting shitty people and practices. it’s SO easy to simply catch up on trailers after.

A win's a win but lets not have any more of that please Arsenal