This shit rocks

I was 20 when HS2 was announced. Great to know i’ll probably be in my late 60s when the Birmingham-Manchester section starts work let alone finishes. Seems like a country doing things the right way!

Very much like Biden's government with Trump, Starmer seems to view "my sworn political enemy has committed an easy-to-prove criminal act" as some sort of moral conundrum rather than a two-for-one layup

Hearing chat that Ubisoft financials were delayed because of (unfounded) fears that Rayman was in the Epstein files. Speaking to investors, CEO Yves Guillemot said that "Monsieur Rayman is 'armless"

Had a chat with Unity about their plan to win back the games industry after *those* ill-fated decisions

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Games industry in 2010s: We've got a new genre of hard game where you're gonna die a lot, but can get your stuff back if you're careful. Games industry in 2020s: We've got a new kind of hard game where once you die, you've basically lost everything you had forever. You're also gonna die a lot.

I genuinely cannot wait to read the funniest S1 filing since WeWork

Good to know that the only thing standing between me and wasting huge sums of money as a business success guy is being kicked in the head by a horse, hard

This phrasing from a pet adoption listing has stuck with me for days somehow

Videogamer is experiencing an increasingly common condition called Atari-itus. Sad to see. Usually fatal.

Hello! I wrote this op-ed because I've fielded some awkward requests from devs and PR (who shall remain anonymous) this year and I think it's indicative of a wider issue in the game industry that stems from some folks not fully understanding the role of reporters. THOUGHTS on Game Dev Dot Com:

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

Had a blast chatting to Stone – curious whether Peter Pan has the massive audience that Second Star thinks it has, but if there's anyone that can make a licensed IP works, it's this group of TT vets.

Congrats to everyone involved in this, in particular whichever management consultant intern made millions telling them that this was a great idea

These people are such fucking losers lol

Idiots, and they're probably using it for dumb things.

Yes look, ok, I see what you're trying to say, but also

It took Hollow Knight five years to get more than 20k CCU on Steam. Silksong? 18 minutes, and it now has a higher CCU record on the platform than its predecessor (by around 3k). It's been out for 18 minutes and for most of that time, Steam hasn't been working. FUCK

UM, GUYS

The fact that I have never seen an access error for Steam is a testament to Valve's engineering. And the fact that it looks like Silksong might just have accidentally taken down Steam is absolutely insane.

In a wide-ranging interview, new Jagex CEO Jon Bellamy reflects on the success of RuneScape: Dragonwilds, this year's Pride controversy, and why he wants to double down on RuneScape. "Great companies are built by doing what they do well even better." www.gamesindustry.biz/if-it-aint-b...

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

Damn, this snuck up on me. Was a massive Ruiner fan so have some real high hopes for this. Looks awesome 🔥

No cost too great

Don’t know who made this but thank you

But I thought dumb plagiarism machine that's wrong a lot of the time was the future!!!

Let's be clear. This is nothing. Demonstrations with thousands or even tens of thousands are frequently entirely ignored. That the BBC chooses to put this on the front page of their news website is a political decision as to what positions to push.

RoboCop: *about to arrest me* Me: before you arrest me, which of these 9 pictures have cars in them RoboCop: i’m going to let you off with a warning

Perhaps another reason the consent manufacturing for getting British people using VPNs to be shot by the space laser from Akira has started up

Spring McParlinJones and John Paul Donnelly from the IWGB Game Workers Union make the case for why the UK games industry should be unionising www.gamesindustry.biz/with-the-wav...

It took many years and billions of dollars, but Microsoft finally invented a calculator that is wrong sometimes: defector.com/it-took-many...

So I've been out of the loop... do people still think Silksong is real or have they snapped out of it yet

Man, so pumped to play this. If it is half as good as Hollow Knight I'll be stoked

Letsgooooo

9/11

Palestine Action never carried out or threatened to carry out any violent action, and yet are now a ’terrorist organisation’. Meanwhile, the Spectator…

It's deeply funny to me that Future Publishing has spent over £39 million on stock buybacks in 2025 so far and... this is what the company's share price looks like for the year.

Sands of Time is an absolute classic, but I cannot see this making back, like, seven or eight years of development costs? It's not even being made in India anymore; this is going to cost so so so much money!

Once again on GI, this time chatting to the co-founder of Aonic to see what the company's plan is and how it plans to avoid Embracer Group's missteps.

Apple heard we wanted greater transparency from its business and got confused

Пиздец!!

I was just putting Orin to bed and he said, “I don’t know how to use my life,” so now there’s three of us in the house like this.

Why did the photographer with ADHD suck? Because they have poor focus 🥁🥁

Packed issue this week, if I should say so myself 🙌