BREAKING: Zenimax Online Studios leaders, including studio head, exiting as part of Xbox cuts Studio veterans promoted to take over More context at the link: www.gamefile.news/p/zenimax-on...

#SaveOurDevs @bethesdaunion.bsky.social

Meet Team Sillies, the dev team behind Sneaky Fishy, the next game from the Gameheads: Fellowship and Gameheads World publishing. In this video, "The Sillies" talk about their inspirations, aspirations & how they feel about finishing their first commercial game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rxu...

Play as a woman who's an axe murderer, who kidnaps men, locks them in a basement, and decapitates them (in this light-hearted puzzle game) store.steampowered.com/app/4756010/...

Favourite Ayo Edebiri picture just dropped.

Billionaires... I don’t understand why we aren’t burning 3rd homes and yachts to the ground yet?

Perhaps overshadowed today by the tragic news about Sam Neill, but we also lost another great actor today: Wai Ching Ho. A well-kent face most widely known for playing as Matriarch crime boss Madame Gao in the Marvel Defenders shows, and the voice of Grandma in Turning Red.

"When we first pitched Dressmaker, we were told that the game may be 'too niche'... that we might struggle to find our audience. Well, it is with lifted pinkies, feigned modesty, and the politest smile that we say, "Why yes, we did surpass 100,000 wishlists..." 👏👏👏 @freelives.bsky.social

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

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Great reminder that you are not your job. We have value even when this industry tries so hard to devalue us. RIP Sam

Aw man, what a loss. apple.news/ANar9nfZ1SL6...

Remembering MF DOOM today on what would have been his 55th birthday (born July 13, 1971) | Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/MFDOOMhbd

Xbox Unioncule's are a recession indicator...

From our Dallas office this morning.

Those of us in Rockville were inspired by the Dallas team's vigil for those let go Monday and made our own Celebration of Service. We set it up this morning in the common area of the first floor at 9am today.

Gameheads presents: Sneaky Fishy, a 2D puzzle platformer by Developer Team Sillies. It's the 5th indie title to come out of our Gameheads: Fellowship program. Sneaky Fishy is available on Steam 7/25! Wishlist it here: tinyurl.com/SneakyFishyS... Watch the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4zU...

Really proud of the team! This game oozes charm and style and you all should check it out!

To players who are mad: we see you! The secret sauce to saving the games industry is developing player solidarity with workers. If you're seeing what's happening to gamedevs across our artform and you're mad about how devs are being treated? Tell them!

Funny how classic RPGs made by studios like Bethesda are about seeing reactive world events to major choices, but when faced with the consequences of their own choices Bethesda management is like "GET RID OF IT"

Girl, get in line.

Documentary No Country for Mothers details how US moms lack support, paid leave and childcare help – and hopes to inspire push for action

Gamers in the layoff comments be like… 🦀🦀🦀

No corporation in the games industry is your friend, no corporation in the games industry is "the good one," the only thing corpos care about is their bottom line.

asha sharma going "we want 1 billion players a day" a nice reminder that these execs are fundamentally incapable of understanding that their customers do not have infinite money or even just that time is finite. they just think you haven't been fed the right marketing yet to get you on board

"1 billion gamers every day" is private equity talk. It's key jingling for the dragons that want to die on larger heaps of gold. And when there aren't a billion players a day it won't be the promise-makers that pay, but the remainder of the industry.

I do not expect that most of these studios “spun off” by MS will remain solvent or able to employ their current teams. Maybe a small core of founders. It feels more like a PR move than a job saving reality.

haha, thats a great post. unfortunately you phrased it in a way that allowed me, a moron, to misunderstand it

Please realize Xbox is just throwing these indie studios an Eskimo funeral. A PR push out to sea so they can blame the weather conditions for their ultimate demise later. Wishing everyone leaving Xbox better leadership in the future. Devs deserve better.

Meanwhile in business with sane practices…

"you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them""

The brain drain is costing us billions and years of good games to come.

The majority of chatter today will be about the fate of studios who build the games we love. But we cannot forget that these cuts will include hundreds of less visible folk w top expertise in a variety of supporting departments. No studios close today, but the loss personal & professional is immense

An important update from Compulsion Games.

- happy Missy Elliott day!

It's emotionally taxing to see an industry you love and have spent twenty years dedicating a career to implode.

In my experience the only way to make a good game is if there is some element of joy that can be found in the act of the work of making it that translates to the player in a meaningful way TL;DR I'm expecting a lot of miserable-ass games in the next few years from certain parts of the industry

Hey Mon! You got 1 JOB!? Now dem want AD with 12 job: A concept art lead lead character modeler lead environment artist prop artist material artist lead vfx artist lead animator lead cinematic director technical artist lead producer Ai slop Ninja And Da Art Manager! For low price of 1/3 US salary!

I am low-key obsessed with this pair of Chinese designers, in no small part because the model guy is SERVING.

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Something different this week—a column about coping with the unending tide of bad news in the game industry (and beyond). It's difficult to express, but I'm not a pessimist about all this. There is a way through—but we don't know what it looks like, and in the meantime, boy does everything hurt.

Some of Xbox's unionized groups have been negotiating contractual layoff protections at the bargaining table for months, and say Xbox has been dragging its feet. https://kotaku.com/xbox-unions-layoffs-help-2000711624

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The right: actual demons are persecuting us, we need to impregnate as many teenage girls as we can about this demonic threat Normal people: what the fuck Centrist dems: give us between $5 and $50 to find the middle position between you and my esteemed colleague on the other side of the aisle.

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

PlayStation: Shoots themselves in the foot Xbox: Shoots themselves in the face Nintendo:

“This game glamorizes life in Florida to such an outrageous extent that it’s easy to see how young minds could be fooled into thinking that relocating to the Sunshine State wouldn’t be the worst decision they ever made,” said activist Marcie Escobedo

Everyone involved in the ai bubble must be held accountable once it bursts, and nobody is more responsible than Microsoft. They were the catalyst for this entire era, and the reason it kept going too. Satya Nadella may do more damage to the tech industry than Sundar Pichai in the end

if you’ve been impacted by layoffs at bungie or xbox and want to securely and privately discuss it—especially in terms of what this terrible loss of talent means for workers and studios—feel free to reach out: [email protected] or nathangrayson.666 on signal