Well, when you put it like that it almost starts to sound like poor management, leadership and planning, but that can't be true because all the studio heads in charge of those things still have their jobs.

Hi! I'm looking to speak to anyone who is finding ways to resist/work around mandatory AI usage policies at work. Mostly games industry-related, but happy to speak to anyone adjacent as well! Published quotes can of course be anon if desired. DM me here or email at [email protected], thanks!

Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds

The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

These people have lost their whole minds. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/a...

Look abandoning progressive principles in a vain attempt to appease rightwing bigots may not have worked this time or all the times before but one of these days it'll click just you wait

It appears Grok killed the schoolchildren in Iran, in tandem with a US military under Pete Hegseth who DGAF. Remember when Anthropic said 'No' to Hegseth's demand that they allow the DoD to use Claude to kill autonomously, with no human oversight? Check out this timeline:

A genocidal maniac.

Carney gets a pass on a lot of terrible policy because he appears competent and has a coherent (if shitty) vision for decoupling from the US. Not sure how long that will last as these stories keep coming out...

Two in three Canadians support a windfall profits tax on the oil and gas industry, a solution tailor-made for this exact crisis. By @policyalternatives.ca executive director, @peggynash.bsky.social and @c4tf.bsky.social executive director, Jared A. Walker. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

The US slaughtered 120 schoolchildren on the war's first day. Is he gonna write each of their parents an enthusiastic letter telling them how much safer the world is because their children were blown up by bloodthirsty idiots? This is a genuine question for whoever runs @mark-carney.bsky.social

when I got laid off from Vice, I later found out that members of the c-suite had awarded themselves bonuses that were higher than my annual salary. I hope that answers your question.

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

Check out our amazing Game Design students at @torontogamesweek.com! #brocku

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.

1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.

Mark Carney’s AI strategy suggests Canadians’ concerns about AI will evaporate if they become more “literate” about the technology. In trying to boost industry, Carney ignores many of the biggest concerns about generative AI and data centres. If anyone needs to become more AI literate, it’s him.

Unreal

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

My thesis “Archaeological Game Design: Video Game Archaeology as Interpretive Play and Play Preservation” is now online and open access! You can access the official version here, however this has some figures redacted: qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle...

Download and play OutRun GB on your PC right NOW! An easy way to play without having to tinker with emulators or own a Game Boy. Download it right here -> rocketshippark.itch.io/what-if-outr... #pixelart #indiedev #gameboy #gbstudio #RETROGAMING #SEGA

Going to make bisexual lighting a required feature for the students' games this year

No one could have foreseen this. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/04/n...

My book, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games" is out in paperback tomorrow (2 Jun). If you've been waiting to get hold of it, now could be a good time! boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-mid...

Happy Pride! Last year, we did a special issue on Queer Analog Game Studies that is now available on our new site. Open access and free to read, sourced & edited by humans. escholarship.org/uc/analoggam...

It all goes back to the Gamergaters. MAGA saw the online engine of incels and losers and just folded it into what "masculinity" is. You can be an undatable failure, but as long as you hate women and minorities, you're an alpha now.

i wrote about motion capture, animation, and bodies in games for TEEN VOGUE! it's very excited to have a byline at a magazine that i've been reading since i was teen✨ www.teenvogue.com/story/why-ar...

Our students continue to do great things after graduation! DisGo team wins People's Choice prize at XP Summit! #brocku brocku.ca/brock-news/2...

Once again - it becomes a lot easier to understand this modern iteration of fascism if you remember it is constructed by many absolutely terminally online edge lord losers filtered through GamerGate and 4chan. People who have never been funny trying to tell the same in jokes & memes with dead eyes

A new special edition of the CAUT Journal guest co-edited by @profsavage.bsky.social & Susan Spronk all about organizing for power in Canada’s university sector is now online! Read it at journal.caut.ca

“Please have 2+ years of experience with an engine we announced on Friday” really sums up the state of the games industry.

Can you help Dreams on a Pillow hit an important milestone? if it raises $1,600 in the next 21 hours, it unlocks an extra $2,000 in support from LaunchGood. Help push the boundaries of what stories games are allowed to tell by backing the project: www.launchgood.com/1948

Game dev folks, we are looking to survey people involved in the gaming industry to explore developer attitudes towards Generative AI in videogame development. The survey will take between 10-20 minutes. 1/2 brock.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Boldness would be decarbonizing as fast as possible, building massive amounts of public housing and introducing a wealth tax and a windfall fossil fuel tax. There's nothing bold about austerity and a focus on extractive industries that are both lifted straight out of the last century.

My latest article "Composer as Author in Video Game Development" is out in Music and the Moving Image. It's mainly about @awintory.bsky.social's collaboration with @thatgamecompany.com but I also discuss @bearmccreary.bsky.social on BSG. DM me if you don't have access. muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

I’m NOT excited and I’m NOT thrilled. I’m honestly scared to share this, but I’m not a coward. I have to show you what you helped us create. None of this would have been possible without your help, and we can’t finish it without your support www.launchgood.com/1948 youtu.be/D4qh1FAPEUo

Locking Canada into even more infrastructure for a dying industry that's also destroying the world. I'd say I don't know how Carney or the other Liberal MPs sleep at night. But I strongly suspect they sleep very well at night because they don't care about the future of the country or our species.

Man I was halfway through writing an article review (due May 17th) when the editors said they didn't need it anymore. Don't do this journal editors!

The whole dumb conversation about "woke" was a precursor to this absolutely sinister anti black institutionalized racism and so many people gave that segregationist logic credibility.

VERY excited to share this big project. Many games are made in Canada, but few are *set* here.
 So, I spoke to 20+ devs who have been making all kinds of games that take place in Canada.
 From showcasing stunning landscapes to telling diverse stories, these games paint a vivid portrait of Canada. 🍁

I honestly do not understand how you make the country strong by selling critical infrastructure

This guy sucks!

one theme running through toby's essay that i think deserves more emphasis is this: reactionary centrists like starmer are simultaneously bullying towards their own supporters and grovelling towards their opponents. it is this abject lack of self-respect that makes them seem so weak

They never describe public money being used to keep police departments “afloat” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...