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.

People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.

I’ve been training my cat to play ambient music. Last night he hit me with this hauntingly beautiful chord change after 10 minutes of A7sus4

Very happy Stanislav Petrov day - the man who saved every last one of us from becoming thermonuclear barbecue in '83.

@konstantinosd.bsky.social do you know of any city building game that does a good job with mixed-use zoning?

Can the Deus Ex experts tell me what's wrong with these remastered graphics? It looks perfectly okay to me. Granted, what this game needs more than a graphical update is a lot of quality of life updates. But this looks fine?

Nadella made a big mistake authorising the removal of this system www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9tt...

1 in 10 people in Gaza has now been massacred by Israel.

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

For those on LinkedIn who aren't aware. By default all profiles have now 'Data for Generative AI Improvement' turned on. You can turn it off via: Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement > Select the OFF option. Do not feed the planet-destroying machine!✊

Congratulations to Dr Hervé! Her work on procedural generation and Minecraft has been really inspirational, and will have a long legacy. You should hire her - she’s an incredible researcher but also a seasoned industry game dev too!

Starter Kit: City Builder has been updated to @godotengine.org 4.5! ✨ I've added zooming, on-screen controls, loading cities from resources, sounds and better instructions too. The project is open-source: github.com/KenneyNL/Sta...

With the Hushcrasher Classification System™ 1.0 (HCS) we can finally have an objective(ish) definition of what "AA" and "AAA" means in games. But we have to agree to stop labeling stuff as "indie" all together and get used to terms "kei" and "midi" instead. hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...

This seems like the kind of thing that would be a key part of some advanced speedrunning technique

Trench Face (store.steampowered.com/app/3894170/...) looks like a game that's either made by or made for @alexsteacy.bsky.social

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFLQ... …in which Yosh uses all the lessons he learned from using Reinforcement Learning in Trackmania (TMNF) in the last few years + insights from the TAS community get the world record of A01, one of the white wales in the Trackmania speedrunning community.

"3 devs with support from a few contractors" I counted 110 people or companies in Silksong's credits. And that's just those credited. We all know not everyone gets credited. Especially when it's just a company name listed in lieu of credits. So tired of this faux rags-to-riches narrative.

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.

The AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft has concluded for 2025 - and after a round of human judging - we are now ready to announce the winners. You can watch the results live at 15:00 UK time, on the 30th of Aug, 2025. youtu.be/owJC8QqHDTA?...

PSA for YouTube video creators everywhere: please DISABLE AUTOMATIC TRANSLATIONS of your video title and descriptions. YouTube has seemingly enabled this by default for every creator. Most of these translations miss the context of the video, which leaves a bad first impression.

If you're interested in exoplanets, I've just update the catalogue on my site! 🪐 Where you can see *ALL* the confirmed exoplanetary systems in their full glory! 😎 📏 Up to scale 🌡️ Planet temperatures 💧 Habitable zones ☀️ Stellar types 🪐 Orbit shapes www.alanzucconi.com/2016/01/20/e...

Very interesting interview with video game trailer editor @derek-lieu.com on what goes into making trailers for video games (and also movies). Like presumably many other people was under the misconception it primarily involved editing already recorded footage. But it involves much more than that.

www.youtube.com/shorts/elt4i... in which two Australian architects visit the Kunstmuseum in Den Haag, one of my favourite buildings in the world.

The first thing I ever bought on Steam was pre-ordering Portal 2 one day before its release in 2011. That's the first and only time I ever pre-ordered a digital product. Also I still have no clue why I bought €25 of Steam wallet credits in 2013.

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

Recently finished playing Final Fantasy VII Remake INTERmission and I really like how they went full proper Jazz on the soundtrack for the sequence where you run after Zhijie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tghB... I want more games soundtracked with free-spirited jazz in my life.

computer end program

'I used ai to reveal what is on the other side of the tunnel the roadrunner painted on the wall'

I really appreciate that in Final Fantasy VII Remake they let newcomers to the series such as I learn the following important lesson m.twitch.tv/clip/Agreeab... (as told by @graham.loadingreadyrun.com)

Some images from this year's @gendesignmc.bsky.social Minecraft settlement PCG challenge. We got submissions from both new and returning teams, using a variety of techniques conventional and new. Results will be announced at IEEE Conference of Games, which is held in Lisbon 🇵🇹 later this August.

Dark Souls speedrunning has made great strides since last time I checked. It's not just "Gate Skip" anymore. We now also have "Quantity Storage", "Equip Slot Manipulation", "Prompt Swapping", "Air Rolling", "Bluetooth" and "SWAGFGS". It's awe-inspiring. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4s...

While TV broadcasters across Europe have discontinued their TeleText services, the @nieuws.nos.nl one is still going strong and is now also available via SSH!

If IGN has layoffs, nobody in games press is safe. If Microsoft has layoffs, nobody in platforms is safe. If Ubisoft and Bungie and NetEase have layoffs, nobody in game development is safe. If the Romeros get their funding pulled, no studio is safe. It's rough out there, right now.

There's no anomaly here. People, globally, volunteer their time to powerful public goods the moment they're not actively terrified that they'll lose their home, their food, and their freedom. Which means that capitalism requires us all to live in fear, always - because it can't compete with free.

i really want us, collectively, to understand that chat format LLMs cannot assess their own behavior. if you ask it what it did, it will construct a likely response to your query and that is all. "why did you do this" is projection. even accusing them of "lying" is projection.

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

see also: game criticism imo

What's most amusing is that my gut feeling is that YouTube needs to disincentivize AI slop not for human concerns, but because Google trains Gemini on YouTube - and recursive training quickly increases modal collapse concerns. They need a primarily human dataset. techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/y...

Do you play video games? Have you played a LOT of video games? Show your gaming knowledge with this 5 minute survey! 🕹️👾 🔍 👀 We're conducting a study for the development of a video game search engine! If you're interested, please fill out the form at the following link: forms.gle/8F4zes2Q7MMY...

The joy of ambient multiplayer (or mingleplayer, as @florencesn.bsky.social calls it) www.theringer.com/2024/06/21/v...

When Players Discover You’re Using Generative AI www.aiandgames.com/p/when-gener...

Sometimes Like A Dragon's Kasuga Ichiban is almost too relatable…

Eliza is back, with a vengeance

✌️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D7d...

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel, and now we’re hoarding pre-AI content arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/w...