A lord and his bodyguard #kcd2 #hansry #art

A #Gaston live-action origin story being made is so indicative of this Bad Timeline we're stuck on... Classic 2020s Disney Renaissance-reflux with added misogyny, centreing of toxic white male stories & presumably going to make him 'sympathetic'. Legit thought it was a joke. #Gastonenteritis

while industry figures, dressed to the nines, filtered into LA's peacock theater last week, protesters chanted "the industry is dead" outside of it. despite how often geoff keighley says the game awards exist to "celebrate" games and the people who make them, many feel ignored

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters. His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound. A true hero.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

Tom really said "how was Hansry not obvious" and he's right, the SUBTEXT #KCD2

So Disney can give the one of the biggest plagiarism machines out there 1 billion dollars but draws the line at… a grieving father‘s memorial for his child. Cool. Great. Fucking hell.

don't claim it. doesn't matter that it's free. Don't.

Me:

We can’t afford a $1M trailer slot 😔 But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️ If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!

Welcome to Geoff Keighley's Cavalcade of Ads and Also Clair Obscur #thegameawards

“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

fuck off please

I’m delighted that my amendment to give swifts a home has won through with x-party support today 🎉 Many thanks to @writerhannahbt @rspbscotland and thousands of individuals who campaigned with me 💚

“i can’t leave twitter, i need it, it’s where my audience is”

BAFTA what the FUCK Not even LONGLISTED Best Game?!? At least Tom McKay's getting some well deserved recognition.

having too much fun with my boy here #kcd2 #wip

Our statement on the recent layoffs affecting workers at Coatsink, Splash Damage, Glowmade & Square Enix, putting over 300 workers at risk of redundancy in the run up to Christmas. If you work in the UK games industry, join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.

We're absolutely delighted to welcome two councillors to the @scottishgreens.org today. John Stuart (formerly SNP) and Ross Mckenzie (formerly Labour) are champions for their communities. They've joined the Greens because we stick to our values, putting people & planet before profit.

Just spent over an hour trying to do the Sasau butcher Bailiff fetch quest of Boar/Red Deer/Hare and JUST as I got to the butcher it ticked into night time then the Red Deer started rotting and I didnt have enough Preserver. #kcd1

This finally gave me the nudge I needed to ditch Spotify:

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

Everything needed to understand Britain rn is contained within. Carer doing the hardest job in the country. Needs to work 60 hours a week. Can’t sleep because their autistic child also needs care. Forced to forfeit the help they need to try and avoid it costing them twice as many visa renewals.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

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YES CHRIS BRATT, YOU GO CHRIS BRATT, WE LOVE YOU CHRIS BRATT

Chris and PMG do great reporting, but it does make me sad that their work is very rare in games journalism.

The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.

What happens in the video game world often happens in the wider world later - which is why anyone interested in the impact of AI should be looking at what's happening in games right now. We're seeing lines being drawn about what is and isn't culturally acceptable www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

UK Labour want everyone to know that their new asylum policies, inc stealing the valuables of asylum seekers, were inspired by the Danish Social Democrats. In Denmark's local elections yesterday the Soc Dems took a hammering, losing Copenhagen for the first time in 122 years. The new mayor? Green.

"it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed" This. This right here. I'm so, SO tired of having to scrutinize any piece of art that even remotely resembles genAI slop just to determine whether or not it's worth a second thought or any admiration.

this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc… 1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work 2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst

Tell me "DiVine" is not just so they can make the tag line "Do it for d'Vine". Please. Also everyone should listen to @benedicttown.bsky.social's great podcast doc "Vine: 6 Seconds That Changed the World" and then decide if Jack Dorsey is a safe pair of hands. Among all the other reasons he isn't.

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The SNP's wrecking amendment to this motion has sadly passed, confirming that the Scottish Government no longer opposes the Rosebank oil field application. A huge step backwards and a sad day for Scotland's reputation on climate action.

I hope we all find out the names of people in Rockstar's management & HR who made the call. And I do hope they'll be found liable for openly breaking the law & face same hardship in future employment as the folks they put "gross misconduct" on.

when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale

More absolutely incredible games journalism from @chrisbratt.bsky.social and People Make Games.

I'm at the point of this cold/flu where I want to remove all my teeth and replace them with ice cubes.

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.

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.

Omg its

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Despite always masking up on public transport etc - some shit illness got me this morning for the first time in over a year and a half and had to dip out of hosting my sister's birthday and eughhh I HATE THIS

This is interesting drama to follow lol TLDR, the people who made the AI coke commercial are denying it and generating fake concept art, actual concept artists are ripping it all apart as fake because the guy has no idea how any of this works