No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

'Imagine a world in which nearly 90% of the population earns twice as much, while working half as many hours as they do today. One in which the poorest half’s share of global wealth increases, while billionaires’ share decreases.' 1/2

One of the most shocking data center developments in the country is families increasingly being pushed to sell their property for data center power lines, under threat of eminent domain.

The Las Vegas skyline from Blade Runner 2049 vs the Toronto skyline from right now.

I went to a brilliant academic games conference at Falmouth university and spoke to @poppywilde.bsky.social and Dr Ewan Kirkland about the meaning of horror www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

"The Earth is not dying, it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses." - Utah Phillips

JK Rowling through her TERF organization, Beira's Place have sent Amnesty International a demand letter seeking a full retraction of their report, a public apology, and a bar to future criticism of gender critical groups as anti rights orgs. If they don't comply, they'll commence legal action.

Montréal rally in the news: "The group calls these layoffs illegal, because they took place in the middle of negotiating their first collective agreement. They are still hopeful these jobs can be saved." www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

it's funny how for decades the RIAA would carbomb teenagers for downloading one (1) song yet now these dudes are just allowed to do this shit like it's nothing

Game workers and allies are taking action at #SaveOurDevs rallies! Earlier this month, Microsoft reported that they would be laying off thousands of workers across the company – impacting hundreds of union jobs. An injury to one video game worker is an injury to all.

Gamers need to push back on rent-only copyright culture before it’s too late. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The Mermaid Mask - our new mystery detective adventure game (and the follow-up to 2019's Tangle Tower) launches July 16 for PC, PS5, Switch and Switch 2

This week, Microsoft GUTTED Bethesda, Zenimax, iD, & more. The C-suites treat the workers who make the games we love as disposable and don’t care they’re destroying the future of the industry! Let them know it has to STOP here: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

BREAKING - Emmeline Pankhurst LOCKED UP 24hrs after a video showed the suffragette alongside supporters of Palestine Action, she has been caged off. While counter-terror police struggle to keep up with pensioners, they have managed to catch this particular “terrorist”. /s

Even @microsoft.com admits its data centers are massively increasing its pollution footprint, with the company now consuming as much power as Denmark. #GreenSky 🧵 @ketanjoshi.co#GreenSky

and another one. $42M and less than two years.

I'm beyond happy to announce that WHAT SURROUNDS US is now available on Steam!! WSU is a cozy puzzle-exploration game where everything revolves around observing and understanding the ecosystem around you. ➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/4178950/ #indiegame #gamerelease #cozygame #puzzlegame

Five years ago today (it was actually yesterday but who's counting), the very first episode of Neurocracy saw the light of day! To commemorate this occasion, I'm overjoyed to present the first of three new stories on omnipedia.app, coming from @baroness.bsky.social: omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10...

A risk-averse video game industry is failing marginalized developers

6% of the 17 games we made were hit games and that is basically only our most recent game, Forbidden Solitaire. We made them linearly over 21 years, so you can’t assume this % is your chance of making a hit game especially if it’s your first game.

Tech and private equity have hollowed out and destroyed industry after industry. Watching the damage inflicted on hundreds of thousands of people in TV and film while a few rapacious idiots—truly, idiots—made generational wealth has been infuriating.

Proud to announce you can now pre-order the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Video Courses. Practical, focused 101 video courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - €40 (excl. VAT) per course, with bulk & group discounts! courses.ramiismail.com

A bunch of our games are currently discounted on iOS and Android! ✨Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d... ✨iOS: apps.apple.com/us/developer...

‘A very, very unpleasant surprise’: Meta forced to halt data center water discharges after polluting city's water reclamation system with resistant bacterium — shutdown and cleaning of two water reclamation plants expected lasted months www.techradar.com/pro/a-very-v...

And this, people, is why we have media studies. And may be why it has fallen out of favour by some.

'We mean business:' Xbox union workers fighting back with 'Save Our Devs' rally on July 15

Bethesda union workers have confirmed plans for protests next week. “We need to show management that we mean business, so they will properly take care of our co-workers and think twice before ever attempting something like this again." vgc.news/news/bethesd...

Fresh on Steam as of *checks notification* 8min ago: tabletop flavored RPG by a guy who left Vanillaware to live in the mountains (true story) and emerged with this. It looks *so* sick. store.steampowered.com/app/4508570/...

Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"

As someone who lost a staff writing job last year and has been desperately trying to find full time work again, I cannot overstate the rage it fills me with to see writers and publications that just get caught using the plagiarism machine and it’s no big deal. Whoopsie, we left an AI prompt.

Close your eyes, take a deep breath: the Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island OST by Aether has finally found its way to Spotify, Deezer, Qobuz and more 🌴 @kanaratron.bsky.social @polygontreehouse.bsky.social nowplaying.cool/mythwrecked-...

femme-presenting cis women, we must not be bystanders to this kind of nonsensical gender policing bullshit. think of how you can intervene if this happens so you don’t freeze up when the moment comes, be *prepared* to step in - because it’s happening more and more

Passing privilege and the pull to present in extremely binary, unobtrusive ways are about to get much more polarised & powerful in the UK than they've perhaps ever been. I'm really dreading the damage that may do to the collective consciousness of trans people. Solidarity is our byword, kay?

did my morning team meeting with video off bc i'm already in my swimsuit after a sultry heatwave night. highly recommend bc it makes it so easy to hop in and out of the shower

🎵He sees you when you're sleeping / he knows when you're awake 🎵

Happy pride folks I'm still fleshing out the entries, but here's a list of over 200 retro games (pre-2010) which were made by trans people or which had trans people on the dev team. We have always been here. dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictrans...

“wedding day beauty is its own brand of body horror, in which one’s immortal digital doppelganger achieves perfection via violence to the mortal body” Jess Defino is as usual excellent on beauty culture www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...

Yeah, if the guy goes from Menace II Society and legit voice of the downtrodden to a national laughing stock overnight, just because the national press decide they’ve had enough of his bullshit and it’s time to put him back in his box: does that not kind of give the whole game away

Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...

New Kaleidoscope episode! Larian writer @fiddlecub.bsky.social (Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity Original Sin 2) joins us to discuss "Two Tips for Better Dialogues"... and gives us many more than two. Listen in at www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope..., or subscribe via your podcast player!

I mean, I'm glad they're *finally* saying this stuff on the BBC. But either the likes of Robinson have only just realised this. Or they've been pulling their punches. Either should be a sackable offence for a high-profile political journalist.

NEW: CWA Canada president Carmel Smyth has told me that around a dozen employees have been laid off at Bethesda Game Studios Montreal. All were union members. She said those impacted—including studios veterans—were informed during a 3 minute call in which they were barred from asking questions.

Facebook’s own researchers found that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools”, an internal report in 2016 found. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It's been a point that's been argued to a brick-wall my entire professional life but if you take a cold hard look at the relative successes, compounding economic benefits, and global standing of British industries the treatment of the performing arts is a completely mad kind of self harm

Well, this is a MAJOR blow to accessibility. Fortnite has nerfed the Visual Audio wheel, which was designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing players. It makes the game almost unplayable for those players. Plus it helped a ton of other disabled players, including myself www.linkedin.com/posts/cdspow...