I have been pouring over the details of Valve's announcements yesterday and I needed to write a blog about how smart a lot of them are for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/steam-machin...

WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK HOLY HELL

Ugh, shit.. I’m gonna end up buying another VR headset, aren’t I? 😓

Was marveling at the Anno series’ commitment to the bit of always having years that add up to 9, and just realized we are currently in a potential Anno year! Missed opportunity for them to do a modern Anno game. Next opportunity isn’t until 2034! 😓

a “Space Force”, if you will

The thing about Clair Obscur quietly patching out AI textures that were supposed to be placeholders… it makes me immediately suspicious of if they used it for anything else.. aftermath.site/the-alters-a...

Sci-Fi sketch

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

Video game giant Rockstar has sacked more than 30 workers across the UK, including my constituents working at their Edinburgh office. I urged Ministers to support workers who have lost their jobs, and stop this from happening again.

Jesus christ, has Saudi Arabia bought Ubisoft too??

Bob Iger not interested in a Soderbergh-directed Star Wars movie.. but user-generated AI slop gets the green light. Definitely earning his absurdly large salary there.. 💩

this was WHY i was messing with cloth, which it doesn't lay as pretty at first but it ended up hitting the shape i wanted in the end which is a lot easier than trying to model it

flipping balls for an attentive audience #gamedev

Just a reminder that Valve Corporation, which runs Steam, has donated exclusively to Democratic candidates and the Democratic Party in federal elections for 2020, 2022, and 2024. It's one of the few tech companies still aligned with morality. They deserve credit for standing with democracy.

steam machine de la abuela

great interview about some more details to their approach with the Steam Machine and Steam OS in general www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuJi...

Dbrand announces Companion Cube for Steam Machine, coming in 2026 buff.ly/vPuJr5E

sunrise before the daily swim

Valve just announced three new pieces of hardware, nice! I was asked to do the 2D animation for the announcement video and for the website: store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware Look at em go! @valvesoftware.com @steampowered.com #Steam #SteamFrame #SteamMachine #SteamController #Valve

it's a triangular cubic bezier patch look at that

it's really weird that nothing on my PC checksfor and tells me that my specific CPU has had BIOS patches that I should install to make sure it doesn't crap out on me because of a bug... ..except Overwatch 2. Overwatch 2 checked and told me. that's nice of them.

Valve is announcing three new Steam products and you know what's even great? They show Godot during the trailer 💙

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almost as fast as it became the number one most played game by my kids, Steal a Brainrot is now basically forgotten again. kind of incredible.. one of their friends stopped paying for a private server (a scam from the dev, because Roblox private servers are free) and then everyone just peaced out.

I can’t believe we’re so lucky to get a tv show like The Chair Company. nothing like it. amazing show. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard in my life.

"Not even in my wildest dreams did I imagine that one day I would paint a picture of hot Bowser for official material, announced by Miyamoto himself. 😭 I laughed so hard in disbelief while painting, you have no idea lol"

this James Bond ass car parked outside our office

Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026: Steam Controller Steam Machine Steam Frame.  Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware

Yeeesssssssssssssss! 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️ youtu.be/OmKrKTwtukE?...

folks we are now COOKING!!

Hellll yeah. New Verbinski. I’m sold! youtu.be/CaSxNAZUKsM?...

Looking forward to another 10-15 slow-motion gags. 🙏

Hello, not only do we not use AI we would rather cut off our own arms than do so. Demonschool is 100% human made.

new photo of me just dropped ❤️

THIS. Ridley Scott made a masterpiece with ALIEN. There is no disputing that and he deserves immense praise for it. But it is worth remembering that he walked into a project that already had an immensely talented team of creatives on it during preproduction... 🧵

we’re doing head shots at the office 👍

In case anyone ever asks, I *have* written a material generator and a music generator for Eldritch 2, but that's not AI. That's me taking all the things I personally know about those things, and writing my own tools to make the process a little faster and easier for myself. It's still 100% me, baby.

A big reason proc gen feels so different to AI in spite of superficial similarities is exactly this!! Proc Gen systems reflect the interests and creative preferences of the tool makers, whereas AI is catch-all sludge that reflects no specific point of view. It’s not remotely the same!

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

there are just not enough Chair Company clips on youtube 😓

Doing final renders and edits this week! Keep your eyes peeled 👀

You *love* to see it. 🙏

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The Haunting of Bly Manor - pencil sketch

seeing this occasionally lately: AI-advocate adopting ‘slop’ to shit on human-created things, devaluing everything to fit their narrative that AI generated slop isn’t any more worthless than the rest..

Frankenstein studies

Ahh! Always amazing news when rights revert to their creator! ❤️

Windswept - OUT NOW! A 90's inspired collectathon platformer - tough as nails - and oh so cute! You must help them! 🦆🐢 Find it on: 🔹 Steam 🔹 Nintendo Switch 🔹 PS4/5 🔹 Xbox Series X/S 🔹 GOG

after all the reasons you shouldn't use AI.. ethical, legal, quality etc. often you end up at the last justification people make, which is "I don't care what it sounds/looks like," at which point you should be asking: "why include it at all?" if you don't care about it, why would anyone else?