Due to popular demand, here is a demonstration video of how to make 3D printed PCBs using just vector drawing software, a 3D printed (PETG filament for mine) and self-adhesive copper tape. Any questions, let me know!

please can we have a day of good news for the game industry, as a treat

So the new head of Microsoft gaming has a resume with Microsoft AI, Meta, Instacart, and Home Depot? I wish the best for Xbox/MGS employees but I am quite worried for them.

I really have to wonder why any company even bothers with GAAS if they're unwilling to properly give them time? Stuff like 2XKO, Highguard, Concord etc - regardless of how you feel about them, killing them off or downsizing the teams just 2-3 weeks after a game releases is insane to me.

Excited to share that GPU Zen 4: Advanced Rendering Techniques is officially out. This volume features work from some of the most visually impactful projects of recent years, including #AssassinsCreed , #DOOM , #StarwarsOutLaws and NVidia's Zorah. And a killer cover :)

Recent Sony game studio acquisitions - 2021: Nixxes - 2021: Firesprite (layoffs in 2024) - 2021: Bluepoint (closed in 2026) - 2022: Valkyrie Entertainment - 2022: Haven Studios - 2022: Bungie (layoffs in 2024; new game soon) - 2022: Neon Koi (closed in 2024) - 2023: Firewalk (closed in 2024)

This is a travesty and frankly bullshit. These guys are so talented but people like Jim Ryan, presumably, or foolish investors perhaps just had to chase that awful GAAS trend.

BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned. A shocking end for a well-respected studio.

saw a reddit comment on the lenghth of modern dev cycles earlier that stuck with me: "The PS2 had three Grand Theft Autos, GTA5 had three Playstations"

Burnout 3 is underrated as one of the very, very best games of all time because you can show Burnout 3 footage to people two decades later and their reaction will still be "hell yeah, this rules. I wanna play this right now."

oh.... my god?? actual chart from learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini... btw

Played through Mortal Shell this weekend. The notion that you don't know what an item does until you use it, and items are more effective after a few uses, is such a simple solution to item hoarding. Surprised this isn't a more common approach.

Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question: "why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]" It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good. loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...

from the people that brought you all of this the star wars jedi team at respawn is now hiring for 12 roles www.respawn.com/careers-list...

I’m sure a certain subset of online shitheads is ecstatic right now, but what happened to highguard — and the many people who worked on it — is tragic. we can’t keep making games like this. a more sustainable approach is literally the only way forward

I feel like the fact that these companies seemingly plan for either instant success with infinite money or immediately fold, apart from all the bigger things wrong with that model, also contributes to why people are really hesitant to invest time and especially money in a new GAS game.

Wildlight (Highguard) lays off staff according to a LinkedIn post "Unfortunately, along with most of the team at Wildlight, I was laid off today. This one really stings as there was a lot of unreleased content I was really looking forward to that I and others designed for Highguard."

I didn't have "try to choose medical providers based on whether they let you opt-out of AI surgical tools" but that's a newfound concern. Very cool for society.

Introducing the “AI-BOROS”: the few companies at the ‘top’ of the economy handing each other billions of (debt-ridden) dollars for a product that both doesn’t exist AND doesn’t make any money. and we ALL get to go broke when it inevitably implodes ha ha i love it here!!! youtu.be/ifyaI4TOsDM?...

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...

I regret to inform everyone that the smartest money people out there are, overwhelmingly, dumb as a rock www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

Imagine playing in a world where the story, environment & world lore were all slop. No profound interconnections, no elaborate web of meaning underlying it & holding it all together. No greater story to reveal once you see how the pieces play off each other. Just slop vomited everywhere

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

Society parried the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K back to back and instead of going "wow, parrying is badass" a lot of people went "society didn't even get hit so I guess there's no need to learn how to parry" and instantly took a thousand hits

Crunch is bad. Crunch ruins lives. Crunch kills. Don't ask for it. Don't do it. It's bad. I can't believe I still have to say this after all these years.

John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think? Publisher: No notes.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

I’m developing a game where you have to go back to assassinate Adam. It’s a first person shooter.

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

The final day

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "FAST AS HELL: IDTECH8 GLOBAL ILLUMINATION" by @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social from id Software is now online: youtu.be/VTrdeqMMMK0?... Enjoy!

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "MEGALIGHTS: STOCHASTIC DIRECT LIGHTING IN UNREAL ENGINE 5" by @knarkowicz.bsky.social‬ and @tiagocostav.bsky.social‬ from @epicgames.alt.store.ap.brid.gy is now online: youtu.be/dmmN8_c8Tb0?... Enjoy!

Here’s to 2026

Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question: Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends. Make. Friends.

probably the funniest missing skybox texture i saw while compiling qbj3

Finished reading "A Desolation Called Peace" by @byzantienne.bsky.social , what a fantastic sequel story! This snippet from the acknowledgements should resonate with any creative pursuit - "Each novel requires you to again learn how to write a novel. I am still learning how to write a novel."

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

Dear ImGui now embeds a vector/scalable version of the classic font by default, manually subsetted/optimized so it fits in 18 KB (opt-out possible). Embedding ensures easily and readily usable in all contexts. Should default to new one on most setups. Here's a compare of both. #ChristmasMiracle

Vince Zampella, Respawn Entertainment co-founder and the head of EA's Battlefield series, has died at age 55. gameinformer.com/2025/12/22/v...

"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

RenderDoc v1.42 is now available! It adds limited support for shader debugging on OpenGL. Note that likely a minority of shaders and not all drivers will be supported. Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend... Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds

NEW from me on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: I wasn’t going to write about the Larian AI backlash. Then I woke up at 5:30 this morning with a whole dang blog in my head. How can you know if your workers are “okay” with using genAI tools if you have so much power over them should they push back?

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

We have to adopt new tech or else our game will fail, which is why all successful games from a few years ago included blockchain technology

Wild news with some massive implications for the video-game industry www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I had to write about Horses for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/horses-indie...

I've been waiting on this one! See how to use our new and immensely powerful GPU profiler in Unreal Engine 5.6+, and how it helps you debug GPU crashes! #uetips www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnbA...