Only just got home and didn't realise my phone was popping off - now I know why 🤣 We're live - chatting with @samanthabeart.bsky.social was one of the highlights of my year, and I had a brilliant time with a brilliant host! Head over and check out the interview! 👇🏿

Artists! Quote with your most detailed art! ✨ I sometimes tell myself that I'll spend only a week on the artwork and end up keeping adding details for a whole month (literally what happened with the second artwork xD)

The Super Smash Bros. series is 27 years old! Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has sold 36.93 million units and is the best selling fighting game of all time. I'll be surprised if we don't hear about a Smash Bros. game made for Switch 2 in 2026.

We at Streamcast are delighted to announce that we have made it to Million Podcasts' Top 40 Gaming Podcasts in the UK! Not only did we crack the Top 40, we made it all the way to #25! We have all of you to thank you for this milestone! #Streamcast #UK #gaming #podcast

I'm in a 40 day exercise w/ my yoga studio. The biggest thing that I have noticed so far is that caring for yourself, loving your person, & focusing on what it takes to be the best you, enables people to spill out kindness, empathy, & wisdom. Dear reader, the world needs kindness, empathy, & wisdom.

ICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies.

BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...

Convienently, there is no email to contact Epic Games support to file a complaint, nor is there a way to get to a human without going through an irritating AI chatbot. That said, parents of kids who play fortnite and have a fortnite email? You can get to a human using your fortnite parent email.

What is the single best job listing / job search site? Is there one that’s clearly the best in general or is it domain-specific?

Truly. I need all non-Black folk to understand that your surprise at how Good is being handled and her death is being laundered right now is an indictment of your understanding and belief in things Black folk have been saying for your whole life. You cannot both believe us and be surprised by this.

I have never seen anything more impotent than the EU right now. The US just invaded a nation for its own financial benefit, murdered dozens, disappeared the de facto leader, claimed governance and the oil - and has openly said Greenland is next, and our leaders are here going "oh well yeah haha"

while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now. happy new year everyone!

Redchurch Street, London E2 Plaster building with murals and graffiti #reference #buildingreference #materialreference

(For when that one gets pulled down)

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

Today I rescued this gem from the rubbish bin. However, I'm not sure what kind of device it is. There is no model sticker or other clues. It obviously has a hard drive and a floppy disk drive, so I think it must be a PC rather than a terminal. Over the next few days, I'll take a closer look at it.

When those who hate trans people win - or pretend to win, cf Sandie Peggie - it's all over the media, even if it's just a tribunal decision. But when they lose, even in the Court of Appeal, it's absolute bloody tumbleweed. So here's our blog about Allison Bailey latest loss. goodlaw.social/3uyd

Facebook made an algorithm that gave Boomers whatever they wanted, and they destroyed democracy, and then all those FB product managers went over to OpenAI and made ChatGPT, and now they've made a chatbot that tells Boomers whatever they want to hear, and... well, this should go great.

the good news is that the media attention and support from an audience has helped Horses do well enough that Santa Ragione has been able to pay all its owed royalties and loans. so it's not in debt. the bad news is it's still not enough to keep the studio together. www.ign.com/articles/hor...

I dunno. 95% versus 3% seems like *quite* a clear consensus to me.

Something that has stuck with me for years now is that Ed Brubaker has made more in residuals for the 5 second cameo he had in Captain America: The Winter Soldier than he ever did at Marvel literally creating the comics it’s based on.

is the gingerbread gamecube my magnum opus?

📺 🔍 NEW We said we’d sue over Ofcom’s decision to dismiss 22,000 complaints about transphobia on TalkTV – now the regulator has caved. https://goodlaw.social/ycba

The thing I had to come to terms with is I’m working on other people’s games not my own. And there fine I put the same amount of effort in but sometimes means working on something that will have zero room of any of your input or ideas and you follow the instructions. That’s why you have personal art

Santa Ragione co-founder Pietro Righi Riva addresses the studio's potential closure in an exclusive interview with GamesIndustry.biz. "There will likely be no money left to make a new [game]... Unless a miracle happens and Horses does very well." www.gamesindustry.biz/santa-ragion...

At the end of a rollercoaster year, I’m genuinely humbled to share that I’m part of this year’s #BAFTABreakthrough UK cohort! Thank you @bafta.org, @baftagames.bsky.social, @netflix.com and everyone involved in the program for your belief and support 🙏 Photographer: Hollie Fernando

I'm a BAFTA Breakthrough 2025! I'm honoured to be amongst such an incredible cohort, and for BAFTA to recognise my work on Old Skies! As a disabled, female, performer-writer in games, I am so proud to show what we can do, and with BAFTA's support the sky's the limit! www.bafta.org/stories/brea...

Woke up this morning fantasizing about UBI and healthcare for all. Anyone who says this isn’t possible is benefitting from the fact that it isn’t.

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Meet @iitzfluffyyy.bsky.social, a Black gay streamer who is here to entertain! 🎮 Find out how this streamer brought his amazing community together to create his favorite streaming event, ICONIQUE, and why Kingdom Hearts II is his favorite game of all time. buff.ly/AXyACiR

"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"

I’ve never liked the “over-encumbered” system. It’s just not fun at all. And I don’t like when people make the argument that it’s more realistic. If I can fit 10 rolls of toilet paper, three watermelons, and a shotgun in my pockets, just let me carry as much as I want at that point.

I want to thank Alyssa for talking to us for this story. It's hard to see a program like The Future Class be abandoned when it had huge potential. I wanted to share more of my thoughts that include Future Class, Game Awards, and accessibility so I made a video about it: youtu.be/nNcvtsba90M

FWIW, your Future Class is still recorded across many gamesindustry sites, if you wish to link it on your socials. You have a right to that win even if it didn't give much back. Not much to add, but I hope as an industry we can really do better and not relying on burned out folks to do it all.

Class of 2022 here. I don’t know what is the most infuriating thing abt this article but this one stings me the most. You try so hard to get recognised in the industry which you kinda do and then it suddenly ceases to exist. What’s the point in the end? 🫠

we are so back

Honestly this feels indicative of the larger industry overall. DEI was a big talking point as long as it made for good PR. The moment it was no longer en vogue? Say goodbye to anyone who was advocating for it, swept up in larger mass layoff efforts. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

Some solid reporting by @alyssamerc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

Ecco The Dolphin: Defender of the Future.

Well… that worked! Thanks everyone for hanging out and spending time with me while I made some chili! Dinner time now and much stirring in my evening ahead, but I’ll be happy not to cook the next few days. We also raised $75 for Feeding America, thank you! 💖

25 years.

I was a member of TGA Future Class 2022 and lemmee tell ya, my skin has been crawling since pretty much every interaction I had with them (few) & story I heard about other members' interactions with them (many) was bad. & by bad I mean, so many shades of being used as photo op tokens & nothing more

perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers they just profited from us

Grapefruit 😏 #oilpainting #art

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This is amazing! Couldn't find who the cosplayer was, but if anyone knows, please let me know! Zombie Gambit!!!

I think it should remain possible to work professionally on video games without having to move

Wednesday Jazz