"Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump and paid its CEO $96 million," Sanders said. "This year, it's raising the price of an Xbox by $150 and eliminating 3,200 jobs. Please don't tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down."

Great reporting, as always. If the goal is to sell subscriptions, you do exactly what Xbox did with Game Pass. Problem is, outside of the enthusiast core, few cared. The mass market didn't want to play lots of different games. It wanted to play Fortnite, Minecraft and Roblox.

We'll be at Develop:Brighton next week! 🐝 #indiedev

"The goal is to streamline the business and reinvest in bigger projects, Sharma wrote." They really don't (or refuse to) understand why they are in this position. Gutted for those affected -including a lot of friends. As usual, people who did their job are going to pay for the real responsibles.

I'm very grateful for Game Dev Heroes for highlighting the people working hard to create our favourite games, and for shortlisting me in the Game Design category! 🥳

"We're ending physical disc production, but don't worry — we're ALSO shutting down our digital stores!" blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/a...

If you want to transition to a full digital console, this is the MINIMUM you should do.

A lot of people (accurately) point out that premium video games are cheaper today than they were 30 years ago thanks to inflation, but discussed less often is how much bigger the margins are for game companies now that sales are 80-90% (soon to be 100%) digital. No more retail or packaging costs!

I think given the scale @godotengine.org is now at, this is an incredibly incisive approach to combat generative AI's awful impact on people, code, and communication. Also focusing the ban policy on access & pull requests is a smart way of eliminating huge parts of the problem in a practical way.

Baldur's Gate 3 wouldn't have been possible without the decades Larian spent perfecting their formula, building their tools and training their people. A lesson that people at the top of the big studios / corporations should learn...

I think they'll do it the old-school way by selling a subsidised PS6. They need to have a lot of players buying third party games (+ DLCs/microtransactions) on it to print money from royalties. I'm not sure this will work as well as it did in the past tough, but we'll see.

Also true for video games, especially now.

Developers at Quantic Dream went on strike as they don't think they can finish Star Wars Eclipse if 115 developers are laid off

With the shutting down of Concord and EOL for Destiny & the complete gutting of live-service stalwart Bungie, Sony announces a new company strategy focused on -wait sorry let me re-read I must've gotten it wrong... no that's what it says- yeah they're still trying to build a new not-Destiny y'all

Shareholders.

I love that 💙

There are a few people in games that are so singularly stable that any change to that will send ripple of concern or consequence through the industry, and very rarely will anyone outside of game dev know their names. Sjoerd choosing to leave Epic is definitely one of those moments.

MakeRoom is part of Make-a-Wish's Cosy Up for Wishes, get MakeRoom plus many other super cozy games for only a small amount. The money goes towards granting wishes of kids with critical illness, which I had the opportunity to do twice already! ✨ tiltify.com/make-a-wish-...

is there a forced gay agenda in your entertainment media or is it just that the gay kids you bullied in school for being gay and artsy inevitably ended up working in the arts with a bunch of other queer people, women, and progressives while you got a job as a deep sea fisherman, terry?

A big thanks to players who reject GenAI ❤️

Dear sound effect and music asset creators; Please stop using generative AI for your thumbnails. You're putting a giant label on your work that gives the impression it's low effort slop, even when the actual content might be excellent stuff!

Vampire Survivors studio Poncle is "reviewing" its Fortnite collaboration after the State of Unreal show and Epic's focus on generative AI www.eurogamer.net/fortnite-gen...

A friendly reminder that Double Fine's Psychodyssey is one of the finest pieces of media ever created, and a must-watch for anyone who cares about video games, yet somehow it's also completely free www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🇬🇧🔵Quantic Dream : 115 planned layoffs, irregular redundancy plan, generative AI in ambush ? The consultation and union negotiations about the planned layoffs are still going on. The studio's management wants to destroy 115 jobs. www.stjv.fr/en/2026/06/q...

And what's hilarious is that Game Companies ™️ are still requiring folks to move to work at their studio. Lol absolutely not. No no no. Don't do it. Not worth it.

That was super cool to watch as a system designer 🤩

What a shame... 😞

"In terms of trying to be triple-A when we are double-A and we are a little team: we don't see AI as a solution for that," he continued. "We just make it more organic as we are working every day, and we try to be smart in the way we are making our games(...)" Yes! Thank you.

A reminder that the only answer to "did you use AI to develop this game" that will gain you goodwill instead of get you paraded as money-hungry ghouls is "absolutely the fuck not, we take pride in our craft" www.rockpapershotgun.com/tomb-raider-...

Big budgets: play it safe Lower budgets: play it safe Besides the joke and the fact that I'd have loved to see "newer games, gameplay, and game systems", I'm excited to see more about 1666 Amsterdam, Gen Atlas, and Blood of Dawnwalker.

That's cool! 🙂

This article is SO fucking funny. "The real problem is there aren't enough 50+ game designers!" Yeah, agreed. Any thoughts on why that might be? Like maybe the fact that this industry fires treats anyone over 35 as "not hungry enough", and relies on burning out a steady stream of younger devs? no?

This photo is why we have to continue to fight Gen AI!

I am SO TIRED of hearing about GTA 6 😑

This looks cool! Too bad I won't play it because Sony decided to go back to their walled garden strategy.

Today we're at the UK Game Expo with @khevna.bsky.social 🙂 For me it started with a great workshop "Creating Games for Adult Education"

Studios "cannot get away with this disgusting treatment of the people" - Rockstar Games workers publicly launch union, as legal battle with the GTA 6 maker rages on www.eurogamer.net/were-determi...

I interview Ludovic Mbock, the famed competitive fighting game player who was detained by ICE after a routine check in. I learned how someone initially shy and in a new world connected with a community who refused to let him disappear. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

'The mission is about creating supportive environments and authentic content' What a DEI manager at a AAA video game company actually does: aftermath.site/video-games-dei/

Not crediting people or putting them in a "special thanks" section is such a huge mark of disrespect. It's crazy after all those years seeing the same issue over and over that studios are still not taking it seriously. Thanks for people like @aftermath.site to still point it out 👍

Super good news! Godot momentum still going strong 🥳

Well, I probably won't pay and play their next single-player games then. Very sad to see that those anti-consumer and environmentally damaging strategies still exist and are even supported by some fans 😔

Turn-Based Tower Defense + Trains = Of course it's in my wishlist 🤩

Where are all the "respect the creators' vision" now? 😑

"The one thing we want to push is we want people to feel they're learning to adapt to the world, rather than being a conqueror or dominator" It made me so happy to read that. Huge respect for the team to stand by their great values 👏

I'm super happy for my ex-colleagues and friends. Forza Horizon 6 is yet another huge success! Even if it's not a surprise, I'm still impressed by the consistency of this team. Being able to launch -in less than 10 years- 3 games that hit 92 on Metacritic is definitely an incredible achievement.

I can't agree more with this... I quit Twitter and pushed people to do the same, partly for that reason, as it's designed to encourage this behaviour. I think game devs, journalists, and influencers have the power (and responsibility) to help improve the situation, but it's not an easy fight...

If the games industry had the power to make certain games a cultural phenomena with global hit sales, it would so all the time. However, the games industry cannot even agree on what "alpha" means

CMON really? 😑

I love that! £5 for 4hours of co-op as an "introductory campaign" is a great idea. I'm sure that if it's as good as I hope it is, I'll be happy to pay more later for more missions.