Once again, it feels very strange to be making videogames with all this insane stuff is going on. Selfishly, I'd like world peace, not just for everyone else, but so that I can just, you know, enjoy my day and make nice things for nice people.

Big yes. Broken Veil is a phenomenal thing wonderfully crafted and has stuck with me since the first listen. Cannot wait for II.

[doctor hitting my knee with their little hammer] where are your precious apples now?

This stinks. Like, it really smells bad. Ew.

a resource-intensive feature that nobody asked for which solves no known problem AND is functionally not just useless, but actively makes the product worse? SOLD! 100 BILLION TO OPENAI, NOW!!!

Hell of a year 🍻

This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default. And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit

This year has been absolutely astounding for SpecialEffect, and we'd love to take this opportunity to give our most heartfelt thanks to you, our amazing supporters! Our team are taking a well deserved rest over the holiday season, and we'll be back on Jan 5th. Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!

While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH

Impossible to listen to Shuhei without falling in love with videogames anew. What a bloke.

The horrific thing about exercise is that it works.

The only safe place to use LLMs is in a field where you are already skilled enough to know you would never trust AI. So you might as well not. We’ve got to start insisting on this Catch 22 being understood in all workplaces: AI only replaces workers too incompetent to notice it doesn’t work.

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Wow, what a fantastic #OneSpecialWalk! Thanks so much to everyone for braving the rain and (literally) going the extra mile for us, you're all stars! Keep an eye out for an update on how much you've raised, and the date for next year's event 🧡💙

This is important and good. Brilliant work.

"Personality, knowledge, and emotion are the three things that need to exist [in art] — and I'm sorry, they don't come from a fucking app." Del Toro sums it up 🫡

Football is life and those lasses do it better than anyone. Unreal.

This is awesome and important. So proud of our game and our people. ❤️

Sunderland A.F.C. ♥️🤍♥️🤍

Today marks ten years to the day since I bought a PS4 to play Witcher 3 on release. Geralt's stories, through the craft poured into them by CDPR, ignited the spark of realisation that creating games is a worthwhile thing that real people actually do. I will forever owe them a debt of thanks. 🐺

DOOM: Dark Ages is joyous. A beautifully focussed heavy metal spectacle. Beaming grin through every level. Those folks at id really know what they're doing 🔥💥💪

you work at ILM! ralph macquarrie and joe johnston worked on star wars with just their brains and their hands and created some of the most beloved/fucked up creatures you've ever seen! and you're getting up on stage to show a fucking possum owl? made by computer? get in the bin you ghouls

Trans people are incredible. They deserve to be joyful, safe and seen in every aspect of their lives. No questions. Today's ruling and the transphobes that enabled it are shithouses. They can get in the bin. 🏳️‍⚧️

“Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

You can play one videogame one last time then, when you are finished, you can never play another game again for the rest of your life. Which game are you picking? 🎮❤️

Zelda Williams (the daughter of the great Robin Williams) sure had a lot to say about the “Studio Ghibli style” AI images that have been trending recently. I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.

I bloody love this game, this team, and the community that pours so much love into oour pirate world. Truly life changing. It has been one hell of an adventure so far, here's to many many more! 💙🏴‍☠️💛

Bloody brilliant work ♥️

Idk... if a developer doesn't care enough to pay actual human storytellers to create a game I sure as hell won't care enough to play it.

I am maybe too morbid a man, but I have a limited time working on this earth and I’d rather not spend any of it doing anything other than writing my own messages in the sand. I don’t really see any role for randomised, anonymised plagiarism in that process.

For reference: Procedural generation is shuffling a deck and dealing from it. genAI is feeding every card deck you can find, including ones not for the game, into a wood chipper, slapping a handful of the bits on some glue, and pretending its a playable hand.

Nothing beats a lovely website curated by someone who gives a shit. And the only bar for entry for one of those is “giving a shit”. Which humans do.

Good morning from Rare.

Please forgive a brief moment of personal pride, but I read a total of 47 books in 2024, having not read consistently since childhood. Utterly adored the discovery of it all. 📖♥️

Hell of a year 🍻

I could watch Ncuti Gatwa make a cup of tea. Utterly spellbinding.

It's quiet here. I like it. The same as going for a walk in a garden with some pals.