"If you want a games industry that keeps on making games that you will love ... it has to be stable. It has to be an industry that lets the people in it build careers, lives, and families around being craftspeople who make games fantastic." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXM3...

New on GMTK! How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory youtu.be/cIbCxbrBCys

Hyped that this is finally announced, but there's so much more to show! I can't wait 😁

You can still ignore it for now.

Wrote a long technical dive into some internals of Unreal's world partition because I've had to go quite deep into this stuff in the last couple of years. Basically none of the internals are documented, so maybe this will be helpful to someone. xbloom.io/2025/10/24/u...

EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum". PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...

Recently had the opportunity to build 3 demos to demonstrate the power of game feel!

DO NOT DISCUSS UNIONS ON COMPANY TIME DO NOT DISCUSS UNIONS ON COMPANY TIME DO NOT DISCUSS UNIONS ON COMPANY TIME DO NOT DISCUSS UNIONS ON COMPANY TIME DO NOT DISCUSS UNIONS ON COMPANY TIME DO NOT DISCUSS UNIONS ON COMPANY TIME DO NOT DISCUSS UNIONS ON COMPANY TIME DO NOT DISCUSS UNIONS ON COMPANY T

On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.

This seems outrageously cruel. And just a handful of months before these folks would have been set to enjoy the release of one of the biggest games of their careers too. The imbalance of power in the games industry remains utterly fucked.

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity. We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

Let's fucking go Ubi HFX! 💪

PSA for everyone going to protests

Great talk on extending UE workflows by Angel Flores of @tanglewoodgames.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovpi... Workflow acceleration like this is something I see a lot of #GameAudio folks sleeping on when doing their work in-Editor, middleware or not.

I'm putting together a Canada game dev starter pack in response to this idiotic tariff war so people can support Canada-based game devs through follows / purchases if they choose to. Reply if you're a game dev in Canada and you want to be on it. Please repost. Thanks!

The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

Pretty wild that this actually happened 🤯

Yeah because a coworker telling me, a Jew, to add gas chambers to my level was totally fake. Because that same coworker constantly making comments about my skin and makeup and hair was fake. Because the threats I received online were fake. You're right, Bobby. Totally fake.

The word is Scab for the people using it and those saying the soft takes are probably also using it or playing both sides and hedging bets but in any case also scabs.

It's pretty common for folks to prototype spaces in Unreal using the default colour scheme and simply never change it. Often something more vibrant with stronger contrast is more helpful for readability and it takes about 30 seconds to tweak the colours for your style of game to help design. #UETips

Anybody positing that the problem with the games industry is that devs are too expensive is gonna get an instant block. For the cost of one EA CEO you could afford 213 devs making $120k apiece. Read the room, my dudes; a LOT of very skilled people are out of work right now. Profits are trickling up

Level design job!

Hey! We are looking for one intern each for design, production and engineering! LA office for the duration of the placement. if you’re a dev and you have been mentoring someone in these areas please recommend them! job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell

Dozens of developers reportedly impacted by another round of cuts at Hi-Rez Studios. These layoffs come on top of job cuts in October 2024 and June 2023 www.gamesindustry.biz/dozens-of-de...

Someone asked so I made a quick graph of your usual UserWidget lifetime, the Slate widget exists from RebuildWidget onward (meaning GetCachedWidget will return something and you need to sync any uobject property to the slate widget) #UE5 #Unreal #UMG

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To post about layoffs without directly owning up to the action is disappointingly shitty. If you’re going to do it, be honest. Love my friends at BioWare, they are incredible people that just want to make incredible adventures and have the resources to do it. This isn’t right.

Reflector confirms more layoffs after Unknown 9 falls short of expectations The project was billed as the start of a sprawling transmedia universe but that plan has now been shelved www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ref...

Ironically saying that you won’t make a product with ‘any social or political agendas’ IS an inherently political stance to make, so you already beefed it on that one, guys!!!!!!

Snackbar Studio is looking for a 2D Game Animator to help them on their first title, The SnackBar at the End of the World: a top-down, chill-action RPG for PC. 🛰️ Remote, Full-time 💵 €65k-€80k/year 🖥️ #MadeinUnity ⤵️ ⤵️ ⤵️ #gamedev #gamejobs #gamedevjobs #remotejob #remotegamejobs

Indie Lunacy Studios is looking for Unreal Engine 5 Programmer to join their team working a narrative-driven 3D puzzle adventure game set in the Islamic Golden Age. 📆 Contract 🌐 REMOTE (between UTC -8 and UTC +3) remotegamejobs.com/jobs/lunacy-... #gamejobs #gamedevjobs #UE5 #remotegamejobs

Damn. I understand her reasoning, but considering how much she could have done for Canada in the PM position, I'm incredibly disappointed. 🙁 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Is it too soon to talk about how, in a climate crisis, forced relocation for work that can be done remotely is not only is class violence but plain stupid? Maybe the entire film, animation, and games industries should not be in one geographical area. Just maybe.

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

What we found was one of the very worst examples of workplace abuse in the history of this industry. That may sound hyperbolic. I really don't think it is. Here's our investigation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9H... (5/7)

I don't mean to brag, but we are a four day work-week studio and I think more should try it out!

Every time I start a game client there is a chance that my machine BSODs due to having a 14th gen intel CPU. For the first time in my life I am going AMD at the end of this month. Done with this trash. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdm...

Good morning

A new one: we have a cool sample up for PCG called the Cassini Sample. This is an accompanying sample to the excellent presentation from the recent Unreal Fest covering new features in 5.5 by @slinkyinvasion.bsky.social and @julienlheureux.bsky.social. Get it here: www.fab.com/listings/3f7...

Happy to be a part of this fantastic charity initiative with such wonderful people. Today, It has begin…

Americans are about to become very acquainted with the term "jury nullification" 😅

Ubisoft kills XDefiant and closes studios in San Francisco and Osaka Half of the XDefiant team are moving onto other projects, but 277 developers will "likely" be laid off www.gamedeveloper.com/production/u...

277 people laid off just weeks before the holidays. Disgusting.

ubisoft laying off hundreds of people in *december* is just evil honestly

Gotta imagine the programmers and such that actually work on Unity engine proper are having a day right now They've collectively spent the last year and change trying to reach out and imply that really, the C-suite got cleared out, things are changing! and now just... haaaaaa, up in smoke

Currently seeking gamedev opportunities I have most of my experience in QA (10+ years) with my most recent position being Lead Test Analyst please send me leads 🙏🏻

fixed the memory leak in Coven months ago now and it still haunts my dreams