Why do none of these fuckers call their companies Gandalf or Samwise

At year 25 your jaded chrysalis busts open and the ghost of your dev dreams past returns to haunt your former bosses who are now retiring (with all your teams bonus money) for all of eternity...

@harada-tekken.bsky.social This is the most politely gathered gathering I have ever witnessed..

AI sloppers out there just pretending everything we learned about technical debt in the last few decades isn't real

My MIL is the kind of person who who walks in a room and knows everyone’s business in under 5 min Tip: Focus on being INTERESTED not being interesting 1) compliment something they are wearing or doing 2) share a personal reflection 3) introduce yourself 4) ask an inquisitive question about subject

@harada-tekken.bsky.social This is the most politely gathered gathering I have ever witnessed..

My Christmas Eve gift to you is that you can play the first two full campaigns of Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator RIGHT NOW, for free, in our demo. If you wanna give ME the present of a wishlist... I mean. I wouldn't say no. 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...

For better or (mostly) for worse, 2025 is almost over. For all the human creatives out there, artists, writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, and so many more, thank you for your perseverance and courage. Happy to announce: ETCH (Ethnical Technology and Computing for Humanity), a nonprofit.

One fun thing about the Japanese is we love the FUCK out of Christmas and have only the loosest concept of what is going on

Nooo. H is for going hyphy at Seafood city.

AAA games executives tonight you will be visited by three spirits

grimch

So everyone's watching the 60 Minutes that was supposed to be banned and everyone who knows how PDFs work can unredact the Epstein files, it's like the Christmas spirit has irony poisoning this year

Ready Player None…

All right people so literally I downloaded one of the government documents to Books on my iPad. I highlighted some text that was not redacted and it included some that was redacted and I copied it over to notes and I pasted it and you can see everything unredacted. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

[taps sign]

Just wanted to say that gambling is not gaming. Thank you for your attention.

AAA video game character going to the toilet: "I'll take these stairs." "Ah, there it is, the bathroom." "Better open the door." "The door's open, nice." "Gonna pull my trousers down now." "Sitting down." "Okay, here we go." "I needed that." "Okay, time to fl

Ai is the foie gras of game development. Fat stuffed down our throats by the very people who want to eat our jobs for dinner.

My conspiracy theory about genAI in games blowing up more and more by big companies is that they’ve all got a ton of investors insisting they use genAI tools otherwise they(investors) won’t be able to bankroll em anymore

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”

There is no AI used in Blue Prince. The game was built and crafted with full human instinct by Tonda Ros and his team at @dogubomb.bsky.social. It is the result of eight years of development, fuelled by imagination and creativity, and we are extremely proud of what Tonda has achieved.

“Indie” should be based on team size/ budget. Not fair for a small team that scraps together a game w gum wrappers & paper clips to be judged against a nepobaby funded game with a 10m budget made only by 3 people “and 90 friends” 🙄 It will expose the cost fallacies in public real quick.

How #gamedevs treat each other vs how #gamers treat each other...

With Critical Reflex being such a major player in the indie space, these accusations of covered up sexual harassment and unfair labour practices are all deeply disappointing and distressing. I hope this all gets tackled quickly and decisively. noisypixel.net/critical-ref...

everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most. sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again. quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...

Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner

I’ve asked for this to be posted after my death. I accepted government assistance in dying. I’m proud to have been part of the animation industry during my short career, and meeting lots of fun, interesting people. 1/

We're thrilled to be #4 on the Guardian's 20 Best Video Games of 2025. Huge congratulations to @blueprincegame.bsky.social for taking the #1 spot 👻🔮🖤

“The stock market is just a graph of rich people’s feelings” Just. Refuse. Control. The market will handle them accordingly.

"AVVIES" AWARD WINNERS THREAD. Woe be upon the winners! ❤️ Watch live 👇 www.twitch.tv/UVW_CWA

A Razzies for shitty gaming execs is way past due. I would also post humorously award Kotick and Riccitiello for lifetime lack of achievement awards…

The award for "Most Workers Laid Off" goes to... EMBRACER GROUP For laying off roughly 7800 workers between July 2023 and July 2025

The award for "Most Studios Closed" goes to... TENCENT AND MICROSOFT Tied for first with five studios shuttered EACH

The Workers' Choice Award for "Worst Crunch Culture" goes to... NAUGHTY DOG

The inaugural "Mark Zuckerberg Awards for Most Expensive Boondoggle" goes to... MARK ZUCKERBERG for Meta Horizon Worlds ...guess it just didn't have legs. 🥁

A Razzies for shitty gaming execs is way past due. I would also post humorously award Kotick and Riccitiello for lifetime lack of achievement awards…

Naughty Dog, having tried to eliminate crunch, is still crunching: aftermath.site/naughty-dog-cr...

the real gamedev “auteurs” are the ones people keep calling hobbyists. not the ones that hire a bunch of people to do the actual work, treat everyone badly, and then take credit for the entire thing. respectfully, we’re probably calling the wrong people hobbyists 😆

Me looking at my inbox this week

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

It's important that we assess the damage of gamergate, but as it was largely about harassing games journalists, I'm disappointed that this piece didn't actually talk to many games journalists. Many of us quit journalism since then, for good reason. I'm sad to not see that addressed.

I don't have warm fuzzy feelings about how things have improved. I only have rage and trauma and a huge weight on my chest that things got a whole lot worse, and a harassment movement became legitimised by politics. Maybe that's not fun to read about.

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

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Hahaha ever since Craig of the Creek became the latest victim of Zaslav’s merger bloodbath I haven’t been able to find a steady job. This man has ruined careers, ruined peoples lives, and gets paid MILLIONS for it. Hahaha hahaha

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Sorry I missed this as well. However there are black fem devs who got it way worse than me. I encourage you to report on the targeted GG2.0 harassment we have been experiencing unchecked and underreported that continues as we speak. we are being pushed out of the industry en mass