Thinking of doing an insane double feature of Toy Story 5 and The Odyssey tomorrow.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

New from me: "Being engaged in videogames over the last decade has meant watching a cohort of publisher executives inherit an industry of products, professionals, and consumers they seem to actively resent for failing to produce instant, infinite profits."

Huge change to Mobygames - you can now comment on any credits you've received. Very handy if e.g. you gave your blood, sweat and tears for years, then only got a 'thanks'... (No, you're bitter.) Only for claimed profiles, not sure if requires sub. e.g. www.mobygames.com/person/61849...

I remember hanging with a friend of mine, a writer from Obsidian. Reading news on my classic G1 Android phone. I read that Fallout New Vegas broke a major sales record. I ask my friend if that came with a bonus. He said he was quitting his job because it didn't pay enough to live in California.

microsoft is in full damage control mode following last week's layoffs. its main strategy so far? namedrop sequels to popular series at every turn. but despite what execs like asha sharma might want you to think, those series were made by people, and now they'll never be the same

Hm, seems bad.

Rewatching Project Hail Mary and there's a song in its soundtrack that starts with a note very similar to the beginning of "Vigil" on the Mass Effect soundtrack and every time it plays I think I'm on Ilos fighting Geth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea1e...

I see people blaming like... dumb readings of movies on "the literacy crisis." I dunno man!! I think most people are often bad at understanding art, but historically we heard the voices of professional critics and now we hear the voices of everyone on earth at once.

Two front end engineers at work are out on leave this week, which leaves me as the most senior front end on the project.

I wish more adults had the ability to regulate their emotions more than the average teenager.

my union negotiated an $8,000 lump sum to be put directly into my bank account last week. so far i’ve paid $923 in union dues since starting this job last year. pretty good return on investment.

i know everyone is looking for work but turns out, i could use some too. if you need your game designed, programmed, or writed, i'm a guy who does those things. colin.how

Two front end engineers at work are out on leave this week, which leaves me as the most senior front end on the project.

an issue with how we talk about the games *industry* is that i think we have normalized talking about studios like interchangeable labor pools instead of groups of artists making creative work

May each one of be remembered as a Sam Neill as opposed to a Lindsey Graham.

gdq has done way, way more than most in terms of earning some grace for someone's clear and immediately reversed fuckup

One of the most nerve-wracking, astonishing gaming feats I've seen performed live. Somehow makes Balatro into an actual gambling game and then, through sheer knowledge of the mechanics, forces the house to lose. youtu.be/A7Go7IXlYLg?...

The gig I was betting on fell through, and I've got some bills due in a couple days.. If you're able to help out, it's greatly appreciated!!

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

Would YOU attend a live Hypnospace concert with a real band playing music + as many of the original artists as can perform? Fill out this survey if you would, we need to know where to take it: forms.gle/rzkjR6t4SsWc...

“I’ve worked in roofing, construction, insulation, house building, glass factories... group homes for disabled and violent adults, gas stations, food service, customer service... Out of every industry I’ve worked in, I have never struggled financially or mentally as hard as I have working here.”

it brings me no joy to play the "fake gamer" card on Xbox CEO Asha Sharma

Just adding up the layoffs from today is putting collective centuries of experience in AAA dev out on the street. It's not just one person's career, but teams who've worked well together. A lot of this experience can't be copied by hiring different people. None of it can be copied using GenAI.

I just laughed out loud so hard I feel guilty that it probably scared my snake What the fuck are you TALKING about, one BILLION players a DAY?? Are the one billion players in the room with us

A useful case study in Cheyenne, Wyoming with a Meta data center that discharged water into the city's reclaimed water system that tested positive for an opportunistic pathogen, Cupriavidus gilardii. Let's explore how data centers can DIRECTLY harm human health.

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen but now you can locate valuable, fully physics-based objects

anyone who finds more things to like about this country than me is a glassy eyed, historically illiterate moron. anyone who likes fewer things is a nihilistic doomer

Writing dialog directly into a Yarn file is the game dev equivalent to writing directly into the CMS.

Suetonius, in 60 AD, upon learning of Boudica

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time

The death of physical media seems like a small thing practically but in essence it represents the total dissolution of games as “objects of art” and instead reduces them purely to “intellectual property”. It’s a slow disaster but if you care about games as an art form it IS a disaster.

Hey indie peeps. I'm going to be doing Kotaku's Indie Penance Day on Friday July 3 this year. If you have an upcoming or recently released game that deserves eyes, please email me at [email protected] with the subject "INDIE PENANCE 2026", and include a store link and YouTube video. Rules follow.

It's fitting that neither of these two people work there anymore.

My biggest pet peeve is that there's a ton of scam websites that are "Free QR Code Generator"s then the QR code stops working after a few days and then redirects you to ask you to PAY to re-activate it. I made a page on website for making ACTUALLY FREE QR Codes. Enjoy. konig.games/QRCodes/ #QRCodes

Low Kickstarter goals have skewed people's understanding of what it actually costs to make a game. No, maybe not every developer is going to be asking for a six figure salary, but generally you should consider NUMBER OF DEVS × AVERAGE SALARY × TIME IN DEVELOPMENT and realize how expensive games are.

It's simple: every game that has mechanics crunchier than I like was designed by and for unimaginative babies and any game where I have to interpret results more than I like was created by and for pretentious non-designers.

anyway i didn't realize all the xbox news was dropping today, but i did chat with some union members about how things have been going behind the scenes

love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.

They're calling it Pivot to Video 2

Working on DualShock/DualSense support today in Lexa, as a treat.

my point is that we should not confuse structural issues with taste. your enemy is not raytracing or rope physics or whatever the fuck. your enemy is gabe newell's $500 million super yacht. you wanna know where destiny 3 is, maybe try the yacht

You know what Nintendo does when they have a surplus set of devs from cancellations or production ending? Put them on other projects. The ability to redeploy headcount while keeping teams together over time is like, the main strategic benefit of scale in the game industry