psst, no one is struggling with this - we are trying to create singular things that resonate with a huge audience or resonate hugely with a specific audience. We "struggle" with how tech and VC funding has broken almost every creative economy we have. So thanks but no thanks

Dispatch developer AdHoc has no interest in using AI to replace voice actors or game development. https://bit.ly/4oNA3mq

Unions ain't busted. Our campaign against @rockstargames.com continues - reinstate your workers now!

Odd to see Split Fiction for Family Game in @thegameawards.com. Great game, but it's PEGI 16 for "realistic-looking violence towards human characters... being impaled on a large axe, with blood spraying on the impact, as the character is heard grunting in pain." "the word 'f*ck' is heard censored."

DVD extras / behind the scenes stuff inspired a whole generation of folk to make stuff, myself included. A shame we’ve lost some of that inspiration in the streaming era.

Hope remains! Come on authors, we're all rooting for you!

#Dispatch devs have no interest in using AI for game development 🎮 "AI feels like a production solution, not a creative one. Maybe it's a creative one if you aren't creative" "Whatever we're building, it has to connect. It's got to be made by people. It's got to connect to people" (via GIBiz)

Is there any more condescending award than "Games for Impact?" Reminds me when they paraded me on stage at high school graduation and gave me an "overcoming the odds" award. Consolation prize-ass. I'm in a wheelchair and was trying to get laid in high school I wasn't trying to be valedictorian.

Two Point Museum! Nice one @twopointstudios.bsky.social

Krafton's CEO allegedly used ChatGPT to tell him out to get out of paying Unknown World's cofounders

The right wing approach now is to put me in a box with an incredibly successful politician who just won a stunning victory. This is Pure Cope Exhibit A Join.greenparty.org.uk

Demonstrations against Rockstar and Take-Two will continue tomorrow, when game workers and supporters intend to gather outside Rockstar North's office in Edinburgh at 5pm (GMT) before marching to Holyrood (Scottish Parliament headquarters).

Clanker race is even more stupid than I realised. They can’t even turn them on for years! www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Xbox made the certification documents public (this is it takes to ship/pass the checklist/QA to launch a game on Xbox) for everyone; and Nintendo/PS should consider the same. There are a lot of things that if were common knowledge would save hours/money to everyone. developer.microsoft.... #gamedev

Tommy Robinson openly celebrating Labour's new asylum seekers policy should tell everyone exactly how far right Labour are now. Labour, Reform and Tories are all the same. Right wing parties only interested in making money for their donors. Do not vote Labour.

Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.

Yeh one episode in I can tell this is gonna be a banger

3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

what is most hard is that running a successful games business is diametrically opposed to making a good game and almost every dev is trying to walk a fine line between certain economic collapse and total player delight

Ubisoft and Treyarch resorting to regurgitative AI in their big $70 “AAA” games is simply pathetic. The lack of integrity, the lack of dignity, the lack of pride. Sure, it’s all expected, but nonetheless miserably *pathetic* to witness. Have some fucking self respect for once.

Call of Duty Black Ops 7 has been added to the Game UI Database!... but with no UI. Instead, the page redirects to an article about the game's use of AI-generated icons and banners. Much respect to the UI team, you don't deserve to be associated with this. Shame on Activision. www.gameuidatabase.com

It's fine, it's just placeholder It's only a couple background things Nobody reads those anyway Don't worry, it reflects the creative intent of the team You see, they're just a little guy Wow, I had no idea I mean you can barely tell Well, all my friends bought it

$35 billion dollar franchise too cheap to pay for art…

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This afternoon, IWGB Game Workers joined together with unions from all over Europe, including @stjv.fr and @csvi-cgt.bsky.social to protest against Rockstar's union busting in Paris - on est là!

We, the workers at Bethesda Games Studios, express our solidarity and support for the developers at Rockstar Games. Last month’s firings in the UK and Canada were a clear and disgusting case of union busting.

I increasingly feel this is an American company trying US tactics in the UK and will soon FAFO. Despite the initial layoff scare tactics, Rockstar employees are understanding that in the final stretch of a game you have more caché than usual and can actually push harder.

Learned last night that Rockstar Edinburgh, Lincoln and Dundee were all caught in the union-busting layoffs, but thankfully the more senior staff are speaking out against it internally with others checking out work early. Now the issue is being raised in parliament.

If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:

I wonder if Rockstar leadership envisaged this kind of response when they decided to fire 30+ workers in a union?

Over 200 Rockstar staff have written to management in support of unfairly fired union members. We have published more details on our website, although we have not yet released the exact contents of the letter: www.gameworkers.co.uk/rockstar-ope...

The Edinburgh Game Dev Drinkup is tonight at the Hollyrood 9A from 6pm onwards.

The IWGB has just announced that 220 letters, signed by Rockstar staff, have now been delivered to leadership at the company, demanding the immediate reinstatement of their fired colleagues.

You think any of them are gonna stop at voice actors? You think they will ever draw a line and any of us will be on the side of it they are on? If they could prompt out a whole ass game and fire the whole team they would fuckin love that! Don’t give them an inch. Oh and also, UNIONISE!!!!!

Loco Motive was a wholly human creation made with a relatively tiny budget - We paid real human voice actors, artists and musicians - And they all brought something to the final game. Nexon has a market cap of $17,000,000,000 USD and they're too cheap to care about their craft. Fuck off.

And one other thing: we’re being told that AI is the only way to make games cheaper and faster, to pull us from this precipice of production nightmares the industry has found itself in. That it’s necessary. We put out roughly 3 motherfucking games a year, not touching the stuff. Skill issue.

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

The first most important thing you can do to support workers is to listen to them. They love their work and they want to keep making games, and they deserve a union to make their work safe and sustainable. Very glad to see People Make Games follow this closely. Staying tuned and in solidarity ✊

Hello, not only do we not use AI we would rather cut off our own arms than do so. Demonschool is 100% human made.

Dear Britain: Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR. ➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74) 🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110) 🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38) 🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55) 🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10) 🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2) 🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)

Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied: "Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀

Why won't someone think about the poor billionaires???? And the newspapers they own! Join.greenparty.org.uk

the "are games art?" debate is so funny because gamers and game company execs are steadfastly determined to make the answer "no"

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

I really do think this is true. Rockstar leadership deciding to fire 30+ union workers and the workers deciding to fight back is going to be something we look back on as a turning point for our unionization effort.

this game has made MILLIONS and they cut corners on fucking VOICE ACTORS? after they already made millions on their last game, which ALSO cut corners on voice actors? get in the bin

sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.

I'm gonna analyze some more game animations and there's not a single thing you or ANYONE can do to stop me #animation youtu.be/LUzB8zYLn_s