How I am walking out of 2025.

Reminder: you don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it, you don’t have to get better at it, you don’t have to monetize it, and it doesn’t have to be useful.

Sometimes I wish there were a website, or at least a social media account, that only posted stories about mutual aid organizing. Sometimes I just want to read the positive "people are building things" stories and not have to scroll through twenty stories covering all the horrors to find them.

In the first month of our campaign OVER 2,000 people have signed our boycott Xbox pledge! So far that's: 🎮 1,913 gamers 🔨 296 game workers & developers ✏️ 179 game writers 👾 146 streamers Thank you for your support with our launch, we can’t wait to build the campaign bigger and better next year!

falcom saving me money and hundreds of hours

boycott xbox.

"This doesn't affect you because you animate, so you are fine." No. This sucks and this is really dangerous. In solidarity with all artists, Please be cautious. I know many will remain on Twitter because they have mostly everything here but be aware this time it's worse than the other times.

If you're an artist coming over from Twitter because of this bullshit they added, first of all: Really genuinely sorry they fucked you like this & I think it's extremely reasonable to be crashing out HARD right now Second: I'm gonna offer Bluesky tips and encourage ppl to share starter packs here

this article isn't about tartakovsky's 2003 clone wars series but i personally love that show and his stance on AI is worth noting. "the more unique that we can make things, the more it makes it anti-AI. it makes it AI-proof." - genndy tartakovsky

🚨EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 I'm thrilled to FINALLY annnouce "LanzTheRiffmaster" happening this Saturday, December 27th at 10AMEST! We'll be celebrating 6 years of streaming & taking on the KH3 Secret Episode on Crit lv. 1 All Pro Codes with the Riffmaster!

star wars dot com team is so real for this: "move over santa claus, there is only one bearded old man to focus on now. (spoiler alert: it’s sebulba.)" www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-best-of-2025

✨ live now with some xenoblade x ✨ twitch.tv/permanentviolet

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Our game does not use GenAI. It feels like as good a time as any to clarify. As "inefficient" as it may sound in today's landscape, we enjoy doing things the artisan way. Everything you see in this clip? It could be better, but we had a blast making it ourselves! (˵ •̀ᴗ•́˵)و

In light of the news this week, play Hundred Line, play AI: The Somnium Files, play Zero Escape. Support Uchikoshi the goat.

daniel vávra can fuck off. these AI bootlickers have no idea that games made by human artists exist and we will happily buy those games instead.

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

AI is intellectual theft, a labor issue and an environmental issue. this is why AI in video games and other creative industries can't be normalized.

Hello, not only do we not use AI we would rather cut off our own arms than do so. Demonschool is 100% human made.

Reject any motherfucker who tells you we need to abandon a vulnerable population or person. They’re either a fascist or a fascist-in-waiting.

At this point, I need game developers to be LOUDLY against genAI. Cause what I’m seeing is disappointing!

Imagine proudly using generative AI in a time when half the industry is out of work

i understand that these corporations are beloved by many, but as soon as you start defending their use of AI, even if it's "a little bit", i need you to understand that you are being used as a corporate tool to normalize AI. reject it with all your might. corporations arent your friend.

"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground

Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games

Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.

Everyone is more or less okay with it” dude you make people emigrate to work there because you don’t do remote work, they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it

really feeling for the artists & writers at larian and all gaming studios where out of touch executives force creative people to use AI in the name of efficiency. you deserve better than to be bullied, threatened and silenced into using stealing ideas and destroying the environment.

consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.

i've lost all interest in this game @larianstudios.com

the finale of my ff7 rebirth playthrough is on youtube! youtu.be/3m-xOBlJ2Tk?...

my friends have multiple needs at the moment, they truly want to continue their studies - abeer needs a new laptop: chuffed.org/project/goab... - alaa needs a new phone (the cost is $3k): www.paypal.com/paypalme/ask... - support their family: www.gofundme.com/f/help-abeer...

We're hiring at Arcanaut Studios with our project Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic. Take a look: www.arcanautstudios.com/careers

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground. For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

they both aged like fine wine

attention kingdom hearts fans: stop complaining about the lack of kh4 news and go play alan wake & control. it's literally kingdom hearts with different graphics.

where you'll find me in 2026

Living long is the best revenge.

good morning to everyone looking forward to FOTOR. if you’re wondering if i slept last night, no i did not

Doom studio id Software unionizes to secure AI protections, benefits: "We see the direction the industry is headed" aftermath.site/id-software-un...

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

We gather here at PEACOCK SQUARE, 2-4 PM PT TODAY to celebrate the life of a once vibrant game industry, killed far too soon by greedy bosses. Wear your mourning fit, and join us for a candlelight vigil in front of The Game Awards, because THE INDUSTRY IS DEAD! actionnetwork.org/events/the-i...

So much money in video games and so little of it actually going to developers.

to be clear, if genAI is used to make kingdom hearts 4 i won't play it. fuck disney. fuck AI. NO ONE WANTS THIS. thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-opena...

The BDS movement is partnering with @nogamesforgenocide.com. Together we can help end Microsoft’s technological support of Israel illegal apartheid regime and genocide in Gaza. Sign the pledge to boycott Microsoft’s Xbox. Read more: loom.ly/1FQEDiA

Tune into the Hard Drive Game Awards this Friday at 7PM EST on twitch.tv/harddrivemag! Fabulous guests, including: @hbomberguy.bsky.social @mikedrucker.bsky.social @charalanahzard.bsky.social @airbagged.bsky.social @emmakidwell.bsky.social @benstarr.bsky.social @alyssamerc.bsky.social