Hi, Londoners! I'll be giving an in-person full day #gameUX masterclass on Friday Dec 12th in #London. You can sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/game-ux-co... Let me know if you have any questions. Please share and I hope to see you there! #UX #gamedev #training #masterclass

NEW: the IWGB has filed formal legal claims against Rockstar after it says the company refused to meet to discuss bringing back fired developers. "Rockstar has declined to meet with the IWGB, leading the union and barristers to issue formal legal claims on behalf of the Claimants."

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction

i always regret trying to be funny on linkedin but i also simply cannot be thrilled to announce

this is such a great generous thread of observations and insights from what must have been an absolutely hellish week. also GENERATION EXILE looks cool af -- I suspect a bunch of you following me are WILL ALSO be into narrative-heavy solarpunk sims/builders store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

i will be SHOWING A BUILD and trying not to ACTIVELY DIE as you play our beautiful and VERY MUCH WORK-IN-PROGRESS game RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY LITTLE FACE. come!!

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act. The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.

as someone worked for the bbc over a decade ago -- in games + tech -- execs capitulation to right-wing pressure has been a longstanding problem. & though i think the bbc IS biased towards the establishment not towards the left, a public broadcaster is a GOOD THING www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHET...

I really do think this is true. Rockstar leadership deciding to fire 30+ union workers and the workers deciding to fight back is going to be something we look back on as a turning point for our unionization effort.

Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it. We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore. Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01

Following firings and Grand Theft Auto VI delay, union plans to keep pressure on Rockstar aftermath.site/grand-theft-au...

Hey all you gamers claiming to "want shorter games made by fewer people who are paid more to work less" here's your chance to put your $15 where your mouth is: a spooky & elegiac exploration game made by ex-Bethesda & Ubi devs. It's excellent. Buy it & prove there's a market for games like this!

“Dialogue is a perfect opportunity for this kind of play; every time we speak, there is a moment of uncertainty — will our intention be understood, rebuffed, accepted, acknowledged? If we are lying, we will persuade, confuse, or offend?”

The ability of the far right to insist that their views - trans people are lying perverts, climate change is a hoax, immigrants are all thieving, raping scum - are necessarily legitimate & must be given a hearing is already a vast victory for forms of extremism beyond the pale not long ago.

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Genuine offer: I am not an academic expert on anarchism but I've been around for a little bit, I have a lot of resources and I'm happy to share what I know if anyone wants to learn more about it. For liberals/progressives sick of watching this shit play out again and again, for other leftists, etc

The true cost of the trans "conversation", which is and always has been just another name for trans persecution. I hope that all the columnists who are obsessed with dissecting trans people's right to exist and participate in all aspects of life see this and examine the harm they're doing.

"I’m convinced that it’s the cost of living, not immigration, that voters care about. The Green party is the only party honest enough not to try to conflate the two for political convenience." – @zackpolanski.bsky.social

“When American organisations with annual budgets in the hundreds of millions fund UK litigation, there are legitimate questions about whether this serves British democratic interests” cc @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social

who crossed out “jetpacks” and wrote in “climate crisis accelerating plagiarism machine that is also a suicide cheerleader” on their tech wish list? www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

so proud of all the marginalised devs who have refused to shut up and be grateful. the fight for justice continues, all the stronger without "allies" who are anything but kotaku.com/game-awards-...

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

In one of the most shameless instances of union-busting Rockstar Games fired 30+ IWGB union members for NO OTHER REASON than to terrorize & silence them. Join the IWGB protest! Demand reinstatement! 📅 Thursday, 6 November 🕙 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM 📍Take-Two House, 30 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JD

Friends, we're back to self-publishing (which is both fun and scary). We'd be really happy if you wishlist the Simogo Legacy Collection if you have any interest in it! store.steampowered.com/app/3817040/...

[PLEASE RT] If you worked on an aid bundle on itch.io could you please reply? @spritewrench.com and I are hopefully going to start working on one for Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa! (Also if you're interested in adding your game, reply as well!)

I you use an ad blocker (I hope you do), consider checking out AdNauseum, same functionality as ublock and it feeds advertisers garbage data, obfuscating their analytics. The more useless their data becomes, the less incentive they have to collect the data. adnauseam.io

anyway for my fellow devs I recommend filling out the state of the industry survey, it's imperfect but about as good as we get in trying to get a yearly pulse of the industry gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26

PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...

Strongly recommend folks Profoundly Waste their Time with the upcoming APWOT issue 6 in which I’ll be writing about some of my favourite alt game scene events, collectives & weirdos from around the world. 🗺️ 📍

Last week, 30 employees in the United Kingdom and Canada of GTA VI developer Rockstar working to organize for better working conditions were unexpectedly and unfairly dismissed. Linked below is a fundraiser to help them out in the coming weeks and days. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

time for my perennial scream that “leaders” in the games industry would be better off learning abt soft skills than AI and recognising that technical brilliance does not magically grant you the ability to maintain morale & motivate people & manage your own ego www.gamedeveloper.com/production/h...

London folks, the brilliant Darshana Jayemanne will be coming to @kingscmci.bsky.social on Nov 5th to discuss the GAME-ER project's ongoing research on game production clusters. Why do certain cities, from Dundee to Brno, become gamedev hubs? Come & find out! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cmci-resea...

Do you know about a game being developed or maybe released right now that aims to do something good for society while being firmly in the entertainment game space, engaging as hell? We're curious to find peers #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

I wrote this yesterday about what to tell young people who are worried about what work will be in the age of AI: naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...

The full ad featured: 9 white 2 black 1 Asian So yes, it was one of the 51% of adverts with a black person in it. No, 51% of the people in the advert were NOT black 6/

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

This is one of the many incidents we cover in our latest investigation into potential breach of the TRO in place in Illinois. The footage speaks for itself.

Dear folks. I’m collecting case studies on good/interesting game dev practice/process from artisanal solo devs or small teams. Please; more reccs for developers who are not dudes.

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them. After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer." www.calonews.com/featured-top...

92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests. Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet. share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...

The fact that some of the companies who run the games industry are fighting so hard to stop unionization just proves how much power the workers have when they stand together. This disgusting action only delays the inevitable; solidarity will win.

BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct. Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...