Nice to see @vinemossgames.bsky.social features on Warp Door!

Sony: We're taking away digital movies you bought. No refunds. We're not making physical PlayStation games anymore. We're killing digital games on PS3 and Vita. ...why should I get a PS6 when it comes out then? If you want an expensive digital only gaming device, get a PC!

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

New PlayStation marketing just dropped

this feels so long ago

Hey the recording from this panel about labor organizing in games is now online! We had a stellar lineup of speakers (@nathangrayson.bsky.social, @suduwana.bsky.social, JD Calvelli, Lore Feichter & Goran Svorcan-Merola) all talking about their experiences- Check it out! youtu.be/ySNEtBVjuZM?...

This is amazing precisely because this billion-dollar mistake rests on a misunderstanding (and probably related hype) of what LLMs can do relative to their training data. I guess every industry will just keep finding out what is NOT in the training data? But there are shortcuts to find out.

Termination without cause in Japan is complex and workers have a lot of rights and protections we don't in the US. If Japan had employment laws as weak as ours, Nintendo would undoubtedly lay off workers just the same. It's not management's benevolence or farsightedness, it's labor law.

I'm catching up on Narrascope talks, and wow @thewriterwins.bsky.social's talk is just awesome- it's about markov chains and his typing incremental game, but then uses that work as context for a surprisingly incisive take on LLMs. Really excellent presentation- www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlJt...

As storage and RAM prices skyrocket and make powerful PCs and consoles feel increasingly out of reach, there's only one real option: Everyone go back to 2D

This is the wrong question. Some people will always lead more visible lives (for various reasons) and some less. Alternative questions: "Which approaches to visibility lead to more durable understanding and acceptance? And which to more brittle, easily abandoned lip service and reversible policy?"

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"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

Javier Rodríguez: "Me hace feliz que 'Absolute Martian Manhunter' esté nominado a cinco Eisner, porque es especial" www.rtve.es/n/17077249/

Congrats to the winner of the Digital Moment Award 🌴🦩:  Hanwen Xu & Hatim Benhsain with coalescent || tidal rapture 🏆 This game goes beyond normative depictions of intimacy and doesn't shy away from being meaningfully sensuous, mysterious, complex, and primal.  #amaze 2026

if you think ai automation will result in ubi you have to say why industrial and then computer automation didnt

I saw someone in the Mass Effect discourse say "but if species-ending inhuman space monsters could be read as a xenophobic metaphor, then you could claim all sorts of MYTHOLOGY is fascist" and wow, wow everyone. "so close to getting it" award, could even learn something about fascism and culture

I thought I was being hyperbolic thewriterwins.itch.io/you-are-a-wr...

did y'all hear the world is ending haha april fools please

I dunno Scott, I think we should do roughly 100 more international pilot studies that prove out the exact same results.

Anybody want some pizza? #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

It is important I get 8,294,400 pixels (4K) at 120 frames a second. Otherwise it just doesn’t feel real. It is ok if half of those pixels are just kinda guesses based on zettabytes of YouTube and pornhub my graphics card watched

LOL get wrecked, contract-breaking CEO. But let this be a lesson to all money weasels

i know i feel pissed sometimes thinking about some the toxic personalities who had much more access to money and who were much more celebrated in the space at the time than people now who are doing an objectively much better job trying to keep stuff afloat to less adulation

This paragraph resonates with me so so much and speaks to everything I’ve learned (often the hard way) over the last 15 years. bsky.app/profile/ckun...

favorite talks at gdc

I'm home and I've written a bit on my blog about post-GDC feelings: meredithgran.com/gdc-thoughts...

drinking fernet HAS to be good for you, right? no god would make it taste like this otherwise, surely

This is really fun! An undeniable part of the magic is knowing that a real living breathing actual human, someone who hopes and dreams just as you do, is somewhere out there writing a funny answer just for you. Huh, wonder if there's a lesson there.

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

To Mike's sage words I'll add what's increasingly clear: Many suits also believe that an experience where anything you ask for magically appears on a screen is a new kind of game. But that's a completely different (and inverted) mode of entertainment, with another audience of unknown size.

Thinking about the impact of LLMs on the way I earn a living - writing - and I wonder what the long-term impact will be. On the one hand, LLMs do not seem capable of producing *good* writing, in the sense of original, engaging writing (they can manage clarity, though). But they can do *quantity.*

Not trying to be a dick, but if you showed shuffled gameplay clips from all these action games, I would assume it was all from the same game.

Sure you could watch the Superbowl this weekend *OR* you could get a bunch of friends together and do a Wall Street style Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator LAN where you see who can make the most money trading babies

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

Seven Gates, We Deliver by @lawraclark.itch.io: lawraclark.itch.io/seven-gates-...

If there are three things I've learned playing this game tonight it is 1. I am bad at capitalism 2. Capitalism makes me wish bad things upon helpless babies 3. This game unequivocally rules

This must be how it felt back when grant morrison was putting out doom patrol and animal man at the same time.....

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

someday I will make an incremental game about the sheer absurdity/hubris/folly of our insistence on sustaining modern human life and like, all data centers there

lfg?

This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.

mary (Karina Popp) "I tell her I think of her." Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/08/29/m...

you are a writer (@thewriterwins.bsky.social) "journey forth as a modern day writer in this short form typing incremental game." Free - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/08/17/y...

this comic is unstoppably good and everyone should read it

We’re in a world where using electronic payments for sex-related games is a problem, but murder simulators are okay. 😩

I think one underdiscussed reason that people are gravitating towards these games is because they ask so little of your life *going forward*, too. Most of them don’t have XP, or battle passes. For almost any larger multiplayer effort that’s coming out these days, who could claim the same?