i wonder what combination of microsoft writing ten billion lines of windows code with ai + game developers downsized beyond feasible limits + every game now installs an anti-cheat rootkit on your pc will lead to an extremely public disaster in the coming years

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

We may still see a few more layoffs added for 2025 as I learn of ones I may have missed (there are always some of those) or new ones emerge (not all regions take the last weeks of the month off) but a few more won't make a dramatic change now so behold the state of games industry layoffs. 🧵

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

Poison is the future, and if I don’t ingest the murky contents of this mysterious phial I risk someone else doing so first.

All of our public institutions are being dismantled so a handful of filthy rich capitalists and can eek out a few more years of short-term profits by selling off the parts.

Support the workers of Rockstar Toronto laid off in retaliation for organizing! Use this form to send a letter to the Minister of Labour, David Piccini, and to their MPP, Steven Crawford: actionnetwork.org/letters/rein...

I was one of the other authors whose free games were used as a basis for this (by permission, under contract). Read the thread for details; I agree with every word Alan has written (both the positives about the game, and the negatives about Jonathan Blow).

doom creator id software just became the latest microsoft studio to unionize. though the neutrality agreement that has allowed CWA to organize so many studios recently lapsed, id devs told me that only applies to activision blizzard for now aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa

how we started vs. the glow up 😌🫶

The first-ever Avvies are TOMORROW. Join us as we dishonor those who are destroying our art form and industry for profit.

the best part of game dev is finding the funniest audio to pair with bugs

pals you gotta quit spotify

#BandcampFriday 🔥

made myself angry by imagining the existence of a simpsons lore youtube channel

Show your solidarity with artists and stand against censorship by buying this game on Itch before it gets delisted there too. This is one of those times where voting with your wallet *can* make a difference. A platform making a chunk of change off sales will 100% think twice before delisting.

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bummer situation but grim lol at this exception on the epic games store

Happy release day to @santaragione.com! Quickly, While They Still Have HORSES www.gog.com/en/game/horses

It is always ethical to bully Amazon.

electronic drumkits have advanced so much in the last 40 years. they've gone from a thing you use to trigger sfx to a tool of their own with the ability to react to a musician's touch, with endless versatility, physical modeling, sensitivity settings and so on. and they still suck ass.

what the high level of AI adoption among the executive class actually tells you is that their "jobs" are mostly going out to eat and playing on their phones all day.

Help create the future of the games industry! On Dec 3, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome — union members or not. Sign up here:

Banana Fish doesn't deserve this.

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Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says

It would be extremely cool if a bunch of people called payment processors over Black Friday weekend to ask why they're telling people what they can and can't buy with their own money. This holiday season, give the gift of calling payment processors over Black Friday weekend

Wrote briefly about my work on Young Suns on my blog (where I have posted every day for over a year) blog.lauramichet.com/i-wrote-for-...

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

Reposting Ryan specifically here because his work isn't reflected in the trailer, but he and the rest of the marketing team put some really cool stuff together for our Discord. That'll be over here soon: discord.gg/xZUTddkh Also, this is his last week with us, and you should hire him!

I also really want to thank @wholesomegames.com for supporting us and for letting us announce by making a donation to Doctors Without Borders Gaza bsky.app/profile/whol...

Hello hello, I can finally talk about the game we've been working on for the past couple years. Wildly ambitious for us, everyone on this team is firing on all cylinders at all times. And as a personal milestone, this is the first game I've produced!

hey you guys wanna see some stuff? 👀

A takeaway here, as someone who was in a union, is how even though game dev is a field in need of increased worker protections, there's many people (nominally curious about unions!) who still may flutter to management with "concerns" about organizing groups. They should be brought into things LAST.

One week left on my contract. Who want to hire me? 👉👈

I'll just leave these here

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me: you have no idea how important it is to have a competent producer working on your project competent producers:

we should go back to calling them the spike vgas just so everyone knows the correct amount of respect to afford them

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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

Dr Assal Rad— “This is not a “peace plan.” It’s OCCUPATION AND ETHNIC CLEANSING. “And the media needs to call it what it is.”

"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

If you are thinking "it isn't fair that they have a 4 day work week and I don't" you are right! Fix that problem by forming a union and bargaining for what you need.

WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!

No.

POSSESSOR(S) is launching today. I have been the producer on this project for three years, & the last few weeks have been difficult. Most of the team isn't around anymore to celebrate the launch, so I wrote many words about these incredible people to celebrate them. 🖤 shorturl.at/MpMra

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

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Microsoft-owned LinkedIn will be collecting your data to train AI models — starting today.