Just a reminder that most of that valuation is based on magical numbers relating to the "value" of Grok

That isn’t your story to tell.

Normally, I ride the high of events like Summer Game Fest for weeks. But today, it’s hard to feel anything but despair for what corporate mismanagement and greed is doing to decimate the games industry. Xbox, Ubisoft, and IGN are the latest to showcase that this industry is in a dire, dire place.

IGN lays off tech workers following Summer Game Fest, where pro-union messages were erased aftermath.site/ign-summer-gam...

tomorrow… over the hill demo

ヌオー作るの大変だった～。デカすぎて下からだと顔が見えねぇケモ（・∇・）

voltei a jogar o pokemon violet e já peguei um wooper de paldea nos primeiros 20 minutos GOTY

I’m sorry man we’ve known for years what niantic does and it has only grown bolder in exploiting the data it harvests, it’s quite galling that we’ve been okay with the massive privacy invasion op for so long but yes it couldn’t be clearer why you should delete the app

Oh ho ho

Sorry, maybe I shouldn't say this but ahahah. I am very angry. So I went to Xbox's Fan Fest event to attend a preview event. And it was the most flagrant display of wealth imaginable. Five stories filled with caterers and hundreds of smiling faces there to assure me of the brand's strength.

Trying to run a video game business during these tricky times while the company that owns you is directly contributing to making these tricky times so tricky seems like a dumb way to do this, I don't know.

Ubisoft EMBARGOED news to outlets about the layoffs and studio closures, FYI. Employees were told this morning. And then many reached out to us. Companies trying to embargo layoffs and closures might be the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in my 16 years.

Not a lot of people know this but if you buffer overflow homophobia it actually wraps around into just being stuff that gay people post

well, it was a fun week of pretending video games were fun, but it's time to get back to the important business of making sure no game ever gets made again

Using GenAI for temp assets and forgetting to remove them has become so commonplace that the only conclusion I can draw is that using GenAI dulls your ability to understand your own game. Using something as "temp assets" and then not removing it simply means they're not temp, period. Sorry!

twice in day

Watching the "Among Us" series and GOD, this Owen Dennis writing is just oozing sheer bitterness, I LOVE IT.

Congratulations to the Duppy Detective Tashia team on their release! 🙌🏾 Get it now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1958800/...

Got another version of this today with the Lords of the Fallen trailer in today's Nintendo Direct. The player-character misses almost all of their attacks youtu.be/CU95L_8Tn5A?...

I'm releasing a game today and Nintendo just announced KH4 and Ocarina of Time remake 😅🫠 Game dev on hard mode 💪 Please go and give Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker some love when it launches in a couple of hours. 🙏❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/3500880/...

The US has quietly deployed 82nd Airborne paratroopers to Israel, per deployment order leaked to me. The deployment is tied to new US-Israel joint contingency plans for seizing Kharg Island and carving out coastal territory inside Iran. www.kenklippenstein.com/publish/post...

Every time Steam AI disclosures come up, I think of The Alters. A game where the studio was found to have used generative AI in a player facing way, then admitted it was intentional. There is still no disclosure on the Steam page. No consequences. They exist just to protect Valve from liability.

*excuse* me?

A DaThings classic, updated for this particular day:

In Donkey Kong 64, Diddy, Tiny, Lanky and Chunky are all unlocked by freeing them from cages. While DK appears to be unlocked by default, this is false: internally, the game only unlocks him by opening the door to exit DK Island. The entirety of DK Island is his personal cage.

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

Announcing: Hidden Folks 2 - New themes and areas. - Improved graphical quality. - Second (not text!) clue. - Lots of new mouth sounds. - Various quality-of-life improvements. - Made in #godot. Get an email when it releases: hiddenfolks.com Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4480060

okay first reveal of the day - I'm the audio lead for Bad Magpie, working with the good folks at @milktooth.bsky.social attempting to bring some dynamic musical mischief to their world please consider wishlisting the game over on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4278970/...

The only one allowed to see Doomguy’s Face is his wife, Isabelle Animalcrossing

This will help sales of Xbox consoles. I mean what could an Xbox console cost after six years on the market. $150, $200?

Not like this, Crazy Taxi https://kotaku.com/why-do-you-need-generative-ai-to-make-crazy-taxi-2000703713

Most tone deaf Microsoft trailer award goes to...

Hey before the Xbox event starts (nogamesforgenocide.com) everyone's gotta be REAL cool about not lusting after the UI or whatever of the homophobic/transphobic game franchise, K?

I was pretty bummed out by the Tupac reveal for Stranger Than Heaven. Sat down and recorded my thoughts youtu.be/T2pZep-s0Ug?...

"Tupac's estate" is not run by his family. It's run by some greedy corporate demon who seized it after his mother's death. In fact, his sister, who SHOULD be the owner/executor/etc of the estate, has apparently been trying to sue him for embezzlement. So "approved by his estate" is just PR bullshit

what do you mean the new 8 bit cuphead game is being programmed in assembly for the sega master system??? thats fucking crazy. a brand new sega master system game was announced at the summer game fest 2026

Probably not worth examining that Stellar Blade 1 was widely celebrated by a certain type of person as a return to sexy female character design and the next step that the studio took to grow that audience was to make the main character look like a literal child.

FF7 Remake series releases 3 games in 7 years, each sequel building on the last, re-using assets, gameplay, and expanding on every system Not to mention 95% employee retention This should genuinely be the blueprint for any big budget game series

bad! gross! stop doing this! RGG and also everyone

I do not say this lightly, but 868-BACK is a masterpiece. aftermath.site/868-back-rev...