Dear hiring managers,

We gotta kick Palmer Luckey outta retro gaming I’m sick of seeing him throwing his loser ass government contract money around in my hobby

To the doomers who keep saying Trump will rig the 2026 and 2028 elections: Do not concede in advance

This is also the single best model I can think of to avoid 5/6/7+ year development cycles too - let a team build internal tools, workflows, pipelines, let them iterate, and repeat. Hiring/firing cycles (on top of the human pain) cause us to rebuild the wheel over and over, and is really inefficient.

I'm speechless

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

vibe coding aside, this is not what's happening? generally Claude is used when *writing* code not when serving requests. I hate this shit but also it does behoove you to know how it works.

Note that the workers who made Beast Breaker ARE getting rev-share on sales of the game on Steam, even though the studio shut down. Why? Because we had a union, and we negotiated for it.

After years away I have returned to writing about video games with a piece for Remap about the less immediately obvious problems with DLSS 5

i guess those celebrating soras death didnt get the memo that some of us need daily personalized greetings from james bond—for mental health

The Epic layoffs are bewildering, unacceptable, but also unsurprising. Tim's desire to pursue costly legal battles against Apple and Google resulted in hundreds of millions in lost rev on mobile that is at least indirectly part of FN's slower growth and part of why 1k people lost their jobs today.

Multiple game studios have recently closed because their titles couldn't compete with established live-service games like Fortnite. Meanwhile, you can also literally work on Fortnite and get laid off and Tim Sweeney remains a billionaire. Something has to change. The time is now. uvw-cwa.org

The "developer control" is even worse than I thought. There are only three "controls": 1. Intensity, ie alpha blend between the original image and the yassified version 2. Color grading 3. Masking, to exclude elements from the effect altogether That's it! Yassify or die, losers!

Posted on LinkedIn last night, woke up to several hundred notifications, friends requests, etc. Seems I struck a nerve in the industry by saying I wanted to create my own projects and not be at the sway of execs. I've said for a while it's going to have to be smaller studios and smaller projects.

Subnautica devs v. Krafton ruling is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Start at the top of page 32 and read until the end of that section on page 37. Krafton CEO was warned by their legal personnel to not follow ChatGPT into what is likely Some Of The Dumbest Legal Shit Ever, CEO believed the plagiarism bot.

GDC's 2026 IGF winner calls out U.S. cruelty at home and abroad

I'd like to announce I have a new(ish) Podcast! It's called GameDev Unsung Heroes, and it's basically interviewing all the names in games you don't know about what they do, their career path, a few stories along the way. All free. Here's the link gamedevunsungheroes.com I could use re-posting :)

"spanish bioshock but with catholic statues and your gun shoots your own blood"

🩷 ɪᴛ'ꜱ ꜱᴜᴘᴇʀ ᴇꜰꜰᴇᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ! 🩷

I love how tonally inconsistent Resident Evil 9 is. It doesn’t try to justify it. You just have to accept and love it for what it is.

So ARC Raiders is actual spyware: timothymeadows.com/arc-raiders-...

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright. (Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

Anyway all of this is endemic of the mode through which we monetize video game development. It's shifted to offloading risk from the wealthy publisher that can afford it (tencent) to the poorer developer that cannot (wildlight) we don't have to make games like that aftermath.site/indie-game-p...

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

PSA for Discord's new age verification! If you get hit by it and refuse to give them any ID or face scans as you should, here's a way to just... bypass it. Go to Settings - Family Centre and then just enter a date of birth that's 18+ It's really that simple. Give them nothing.

Again, I cannot emphasize enough: do not go to the US even if you're privileged enough to have never been scared or worried of a border crossing in you're life. Do not go ESPECIALLY for something as optional & outrageously expensive as GDC. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Reminder to other indie dev teams especially new teams. Most of us are happy to share advice and give feedback on publisher/funding/platform deals and terms. There are some shady predatory biz weasels that will take advantage of you as soon as your game starts to pop off. Please reach out.

“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?” www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Working with a union can also be extremely fulfilling and also the people are cool as hell. uvw-cwa.org UVW is an organization where the members ARE the organization. There’s no MBA at the top who has never made a game in their life.

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

people make mistakes every day, blondes, it’s our time to shine (while pretending to be confused all the time) www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

This is tangential, but: Anybody who says producers and QA aren't "real" gamedevs needs to take a long, hard look at themselves and ask where they'd be without support structures built into the fabric of their work life

so don't get too comfortable. #art

If you are (understandably) too angry to exercise discretion in what you post then log off for a while.

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

Minneapolis General Strike solidarity actions have spread to at least 43 cities according to our strike tracking Check our map here. paydayreport.com/minneap/

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years

Is that bad

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

Hey #portfolioday I’m a environment artist specializing in materials. I’ve done everything from props, vehicles, environments, photogrammetry, & shaders during my time in games: 🎨: www.artstation.com/chrisnvasquez Some material & sculpts I had fun doing on my personal time! #zbrush

This is how it should have been day one. This is how it should look all over the country.

“this isn’t the america i know” you don’t know a lot

love how citizens have to police themselves at every turn in the tiniest possible ways but a guy can be captured from 5 different angles in media res murdering somebody and everyone has to scream and demand that he ever face consequences

whichever candidate runs on prosecuting every single ice agent fuck to the fullest extent of the law has my vote

ice agents simply aren't trained well enough to be on the street. they are a genuine danger to citizens

Be sad and scared, but look for that part of you that says “no” and refuses to bend, and give it something to do to help.

Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.