these morons would instantly die in a real industry where they have to make a business work on 3% net margins

I'm sorry but if you have 4,000 employees and your revenue is 6 billion, you make 1.5 million per employee and if you can't make a profit margin there, you are simply embezzling it.

Well, I hadn't been super public about where I worked because I wanted to keep my social media presence separate from my job, but I can finally reveal... I have been working for Epic for the past year and change! Unfortunately, I was laid off today.

how many of those 20% relocated? remote work *is* possible, we proved that during the pandemic. so it's weird to me that we're still requiring devs to be onsite. I see a lot of hybrid listings, but those require being within commuting distance. it hurts everyone to be exclusionary, dorks

I don’t care if he’s Tom Cruise or Alan Ritchson sized, if someone tells you to back off, and you keep physically accosting him, whatever happens next is between you and your god.

Multiple game studios have recently closed because their titles couldn't compete with established live-service games like Fortnite. Meanwhile, you can also literally work on Fortnite and get laid off and Tim Sweeney remains a billionaire. Something has to change. The time is now. uvw-cwa.org

you invoke 13 Sentinels, i buy sight unseen

Now I know I’m getting old because the idea of purchasing plane tickets on my phone literally never occurred before this moment and it made me physically recoil reading it

From Wakanda to Harlem. This week, @evnarc.bsky.social, comic writer, journalist, and narrative designer, joins Simon to discuss storytelling across Black Panther and Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and the cultural threads that run through his work. Listen now: bit.ly/4tak4AR

It's so funny to me when an entertainment company says "Man up." "Man up and accept shitty art!" "Man up and pay $100 for a game!" I...don't have to? www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

anyway here's Akira Kurosawa gazing lovingly at Toshiro Mifune on the set of Seven Samurai

Theater/opera person, here: this is likely due to "bleed," which is a phenomenon we're literally trained for. When acting (or in this case, role-playing) a character for a good while and there are intense situations (such as an RPG finale), the emotions of the character can literally become yours!

I wanted to look extraordinary for you tonight. But my barber may have been looking at a picture of a dog when he gave me this haircut.

This isn't actually funny, CEOs only act like this when they're afraid

Nothing but my most effusive praise for this demo -- Outerloop does it again

Oh and this is all in the demo which is the first hour or so of the game and the save file will continue on to the full game when it comes out on April 14th. store.steampowered.com/app/2950710/...

Honk, cook, deliver gameplay loop. A food truck mech that can honk to take orders, cook, and then deliver to hungry villagers from our upcoming turn-based combat RPG, Dosa Divas. Ingredients are found in the world, reclaimed from battles, or bartered from a traveling merchant.

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

This interview is like spelunking into the cavernous emptiness of a tech CEO's mind. Phenomenal throughout.

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

ragebaiting my fat wolfos

What is so baffling is not only do games with massive budgets like Legend of Zelda demonstrate how you can have dialogue with no VO at all, but it’s weird that they think the game is enhanced by a form of generative sounds that are *not expressed by a human for human ears*, that’s the point of VO.

Get 15% off on the Narrative Kaleidoscope today (or all this week? we honestly don't know) with the code NARRATIVE15 www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope (Discount on print costs; authors still get full royalties)

I played like 100 hours of Trails in the Sky games without VO and it was transcendent — if they sounded like AI idiots, I would never have continued! Giving your game characters lifeless temp voices and selling it is literally worse than just having nothing! Settle for self respect.

this game is fuckin gorgeous!! every camera angle is so perfectly placed and the atmosphere is moody as fuck, i love this sm so far

"oops we stole it and then forgot" continues to be the funniest ongoing excuse for getting busted using gen AI art

Happy thirtieth birthday, Bio Hazard, aka Resident Evil. Unleashed from a Capcom laboratory on 1996/3/22! Thirty years of Raccoon City, Forest Zones, Jill Sandwiches, and creepy-ass mansions. And interesting might-have-beens with the first Bio Hazard/Resident Evil game. 🧵 of info tidbits

i say this as a sports fan: you shouldn't follow live sports. don't attend the games, don't watch them on tv, don't check the score. you're costing time and resources to snoop on a very sophisticated operation that doesn't involve you. just sit tight and wait for a book or video to come out about it

Ooooh, look at this! I mean IMO the remakes are solid, good in their own way, but you lose all this terrific framing, these choices about where to put the camera that give you a particular perspective on Leon, the environment, the danger. And wow, that environmental art!

For Immediate Release. "STAR WARS" SET TO BEGIN PRODUCTION IN TUNISIA ON MARCH 22.

10 years old was maybe too young for me to play Resident Evil 2 and given how unnerved and jumpy I am, I’m not entirely ready at 37 either 😂 You’ll never convince me games have ever looked better than 1998

Remember all of those times you said you would pick up an indie game if it was on sale. Now's that time. Here's a list of solid titles you can pick up for less than 5 bucks.

I read this assuming Saxon was the baby he drags around the White House. This is Saxon. He's 20 years old.

If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces.

Best pitch for an unmade movie I've ever heard is Margot Robbie and Elijah Wood starring as a couple honeymooning in Europe when they get mistaken for a pair of world class assassins played by Samara Weaving and Daniel Radcliffe. Hijinx ensue.

Like yes it is true that larry ellison should be put in the room that slices you into cubes from Cube, but so should Bari Weiss. You may think that she's just an interchangeable figurehead, and that's true, but... she did choose to be that interchangeable figurehead.

I have been reading about writing, so I wrote about writing. apologies simulacrum.pika.page/posts/games-...

Hey, we are very positive on Steam! DropShot is also on sale :D

making video games

BIG ASK: Got a major theater willing to have an ad (image with QR code) on their big screen pre-roll for every movie for a month for the @reeloutreach.com charity….anyone here able to help me whip up a graphic to use for it?

dr. robby: we have a patient in er room 1. health is at 1%. ideas, people me: 1 dose of the correct kind of medicine, stat! dr. mohan: oh my god. patient’s health is now 100% dr. robby: do you want to ride motorcycles with me me: no. i have to go home and post on bluesky — the world’s #1 site

No one wants to say it but the Minneapolis protesters won

Buy our video game!!!!!! So we can make more of them! And possibly a little more of this one!?

I love this game more than I have the vocabulary to express. Who's playing Checkpoint matches with me this weekend? 😍

Intruder is 50% off during the Steam Spring Sale -- and we're releasing the brand-new Checkpoint map in beta. Asymmetrical gameplay. Hack objective. Two new gadgets. Learn more: store.steampowered.com/news/app/518... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjB_...

New collection announcement: We're live at GDC... 1989! We've digitized 21 hours of talks from the third ever Computer Game Developers' Conference, now available for free in our digital library 🔊 gamehistory.org/cgdc-1989-ta...

It’s nice that they made arcades for guys with several divorces

I’m back in the Guardian, with a piece on how there’s no such thing as a hit anymore when it comes to live service games www.theguardian.com/games/2026/m...