Game developers who have never self-published shouldn't asssume they can do it on their own. Even if their game is "done" and they think it's "fun". Especially if they've left the job to someone else in the past, and that someone isn't available.

Turns out this all started in Runescape.

It's a new phenomenon. Part of it seems to be, no one knows why they work so hard, except out of fear of the unknown.

Don't want the answer, don't ask the question.

Not sure which is more naive, that there exist very many "undiscovered" or unpromoted games that could still find a significant audience given enough time and luck, or that anyone can be aware of the quality in every game made. The market flies oblivious to the bullets. 50 shot into Steam every day.

Game promotion is harder than you think. Quaint don't move units.

Maybe because it shouldn't be done, at all. By anyone.

Not AI generated.

It did helpfully watermark creations, so those hoping they could pretend to be creative but really just using genAI, never got the chance. I expect lots more cheaply made cartoon porn, though.

He's serious, folks.

RIP Dennis Condrey.

RIP Sam Kieth.

I am curious what people think about this.

RIP Chuck Norris.

Including both Garriott brothers on panels.

America won, by way of America.

All about the place where once the original Mad Max post-apocalypse desert scenes were once filmed, where Ben Folds wrote, "the world could turn, or crash and burn, and you would never know it," and now ... where Hollow Knight and Silksong were made. ADELAIDE. And the rest of South Australia.

I don't expect most players think they ever get this (if they care at all, and that's another matter.) Most AAA console stuff in the past 10 years has been pushed to photorealism that I can't imagine too many "artists" want as a visual constraint, and for game performance is a heavy anchor.

Take note, everyone who has ever typed the words "we need a union" unto the Internet. This is what unions have to do sometimes.

They're so bad at social media.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-faA...

please don't take a picture

“The venture capital community has like a negative 100% hit ratio in what they have done sponsoring game properties. They have the same founder fetish they have in sponsoring start-ups... Founders are important but it’s teams that make the games.” thegamerztheory.com/article/2026...

Hey if you are in town for #SXSW you have to stop by ATX Game Makers Showcase and Arcade. It’s free and we have free food while it last! March 15th starting at 10am FREE REGISTRATION HERE: www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-annual...

It's about crypto. April 17.

Cards on the table.

Maybe it's a good thing the new GTA is delayed.

Small projects win.

Everybody hail the new king in town

So, supposedly there are 17.8 million registered voters in Texas. About 2.1 million voted D. About 1.7 million voted R. Not enough people learned the most important lesson of 2016. Though to be fair, that was 10 years ago. Long enough to forget.

He wasn't a bad guy. But things fall apart.

are you not better off than ever?

So yeah, maybe get off Tiktok forever. If it's not already ruined by genAI advertising, it's letting LLM agents run its customer service.

Good night Internet.

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.

Toys are for play. Tech is for ... everything.

Robert Solow knocks twice.

RIP Jesse Jackson.

RIP Robert Duvall. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

"Poo-PING."

A month out from launch, we're releasing the BIG HOPS documentary about the game's 6 year journey. It covers Hop's origin, growing the team, navigating a tough design space, bringing it all together, getting dropped by our publisher, Kickstarting, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtee...

KOG IS GREENLIT! Since this was shown in the trailer/ad for the artbook it felt safe to share. This was drawn in '24, early dev, the first time it really felt me, Zach, and JBO understood Frankie, Andi, and the show's tone. I still look at this drawing and think, oh yeah. That's #knightsofguinevere.

New rule: Game dev teams that have been reconstituted as a new studio, either under a new leader or even largely intact from a previous configuration, should be considered and consider themselves, a new team, until they ship a new product. Until they do that, they have everything to prove.

RIP James Van Der Beek. www.tmz.com/2026/02/11/j...

@kutnews.bsky.social What it takes. www.kut.org/politics/202...

Today I read someone referring to the continuing trend of half-baked hero shooters that might be team based, might be extraction based, as "Concord-likes".

Meanwhile, the Potomac River is getting a lot of sewage water leakage lately, with no end to it in sight. www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

Iron Lung the movie, good shit @markiplier.bsky.social and crew. The others in the theater for a Saturday afternoon matinee didn't seem the type to go watch movies in a theater, but they would watch a streamer. Like me, I bet they wished for subtitles. But like the film says, it doesn't matter.