The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.

Today I found out about PS2IODB, an open database website where you can view every PS2 save game data icon model, which somehow really brightened my day ps2iodb.com

Hey, so, I was so angry today that, for once, I blogged it instead of posting about it. Games media, especially mainstream games media, cannot keep abdicating responsibility in how it talks about these things an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/video-game-s...

Always remember that loudly calling something shit and evil and bad still has power, however diminished in this era of shamelessness.

Lepel is het asfalt Spoon in the tarmac maps.app.goo.gl/vTg7CSox67Tb... No doubt this is going to be an UNESCO World Heritage site and will finally make Ghent a city worth visiting

A risk-averse video game industry is failing marginalized developers

I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.

This is horrifying and so important. Israel's continued massacres, child murder, genocide, forced starvation, concentration camps, targeted and structured destruction of life, and ethnic cleansing continues. It's easy to not see the full scale of this unparalleled evil. archivegenocide.com

Betrayal at Club Low is for dice sickos (complimentary) and people who like when RPGs surprise them, which this one does constantly. Also you can beat it in 2-4 hours, which is nice. store.steampowered.com/app/1885750/...

what if the real video games industry was the people who made the games along the way

TODAY is SUBMISSION DAY!!! If you want to participate in the AI Settlement Generation Challenge this year, you have until the end of the 1st of July to submit your entry. gendesignmc.wikidot.com/wiki:2026-se...

Every once in a while I try the Zed code editor again and every time I'm unimpressed. I don't get the hype.

Not now, affirmation bot

This mirrors my own views over time pretty much exactly

I think what is happening, is that AI is devaluing the entire concept of truth, knowledge, and craftsmanship we're probably in for an informational dark age of absolutely unprecedented mass alienation and detachment from society

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

The Cylinder Must Remain Unharmed

I’m not able to attend @gameaischool.bsky.social despite this year’s edition being very close to where I live and work. But if anyone attendee wants to invite me to hang out, please feel free to do so. I know some good spots in Leiden.

A video game studio should be allowed to make a bad game and gain some institutional knowledge without being gutted, skinned, and melted it down into glue every fiscal year.

A lot of the responses to this are people being upset about pushing past the discouragement at not seeing improvement or making what they want. That's the muscle you need to develop. Tbqh, even as your art gets better, that feeling does not. It just gets more nuanced. Starting again is the skill.

Fuck off, no it isn't. Stop throwing translators under the bus.

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

www.parool.nl/kunst-media/... Wim T. Schippers (1942–2026) 😢

The irony is they are replacing all their non-union humans with agents run by a single organization that can demand changes in wages (aka token costs) overnight without bargaining.

damn, it would be a real shame if something were to damage the functional and healthy video games industry, which is otherwise doing fine

The other day electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani released a new album: CIANI/ORKEST. It mixes the sound of Quadraphonic, Sunergy, et al. with a full orchestral backing from the one and only Metropole Orkest, coming together in something truly special. suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/ciani-...

When you order something at my favourite Cantonese takeaway place in Den Haag they will give you a number scribbled on a piece of scrap paper that's haphazardly taped to an L-bracket from the hardware store. And I wouldn't want to have it any other way. The food is great.

Submissions for the 2026 AI Settlement Generation Challenge in #Minecraft are now open until the 1st of July. More details: gendesignmc.wikidot.com/wiki:2026-se... @niels-ntg.bsky.social @togelius.bsky.social @christophsalge.bsky.social #genAI

Check out this great video about us 👈 by Dr. Tommy Thompson at AI in Games. Interview with last year's winner, and lots of cool footage of the past entries of the GDMC.

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

Happy pride month everyone

New "large boulder the size of a small boulder"-style post, Latvia edition: eng.lsm.lv/article/soci... 🪨

"i want to make a thing, but i specifically don't want to understand how it works" is such a weird mindset ...

My big-brain critical opinion: “it’s good”

Time to delete your Linktree!

Anyone else who regularly confuses this movie with Breakdown, the 1997 suspense mystery movie directed by Jonathan Mostow? Maybe it’s just me.

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

The folks at @aiandgames.com dropped a new video, featuring the GDMC AI Settlement Generation Challenge. And there is still plenty of time to join for this year: gendesignmc.wikidot.com

With the 9th edition of the event live now, @tommy.aiandgames.com catches up with the @gendesignmc.bsky.social - an annual event to design PCG systems for creating settlements in Minecraft! Expect fun musings, chill vistas, and some cool looking Minecraft villages. youtu.be/QbxO2ZyynSg

current progress on my ds9 mii roster in tomodachi life. you can tell i saved the three aliens (jadzia, quark, and worf) who will require the heaviest use of face paint to pull off for last lol

So it turns out if you go cybernetic in Stellaris, then there's a risk that your species will invent the War Thunder forums.

Once again LLM tools indirectly help to reveal the fraudsters and charlatans amongst us.

daaaamn london

If I hear one more youtuber sputter out an "I hope I'm pronouncing that right" in reference to an easily searchable foreign name I'm going to start lighting people on fire

i think about this tweet every single day