Let’s grab a Jarritos 🥤🥤

I dunno about y'all but I'm fairly sure we were sold out. Everybody involved needs to be held accountable for this, and the data centers need to be held not just to the same, but to higher environmental standards. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

level blockouts from my current project

"this game being such a success means it was a trojan horse for AI tools" isn't the phrasing I would use if I was a dev not trying to paint my release in a negative light. Wild.

I do enjoy that new marathon game and its characters me thinks! #marathonthegame

I love this

Terry fanart as seen on Reddit, from Episode Five: The Light at the End of All Things. (Terry is performed by Nick Wolfhard, who did an amazing job.) www.imdb.com/name/nm60165...

Episode Five: The Light at the End of All Things, now Live. youtu.be/Y4zYI5MyQQU

We’re in a video game crash. You can’t look at 45K jobs lost, games in dev for 5-10 years shuttered in a week or a month, jacked prices on hardware to 30%+ vs launch, and component prices through the roof due to garbage SlopTech and tariffs and draw any different conclusion.

[halo] my blorbo

genuinely fascinating that we’ve hit a point where the full monetization of the internet and ai bot takeover has led to a majority of people wanting tech minimalism

I owe you an apology, N64. I wasn't familiar with your game

i love prox chat #fanart #marathonthegame

lmao

glitch #marathon

blackbird #marathon

please dont suck please dont suck please dont suck

Here are Dave and David's full unedited comments for those interested:

Playing the Wii Shop Channel music in prox chat while looting people's dead buddies in Marathon.

If you sell a game at $70 and pocket $49 on every sale (30% goes to the store, assuming all sales are digital), you'd need to sell more than 6 million copies just to break even on a $300m budget, and that's before marketing

Exact budgets of video-game productions can be tough to corroborate (more transparency from publishers would be nice!) but the numbers I've heard floating around AAA game dev these days are $300 million or more — sometimes much more! — which I think helps explain the current state of the industry

Enough

Finished the funny meme #Marathon #Sanrio #Meme

Ringing the bell for public libraries again. Excellent resource that has so much great stuff! Please support your local libraries! Check out a book, participate in a program or donate your used materials to them. Hell, open up a card even if you never intend to use it. We gotta keep them around!

This is a great reminder: Companies just lie. All the time! About everything. This is PR, all for shareholders, and not a reflection of reality or any intent. Which time will always, always prove true.

Yep, this is maddening. Yes, it's useful to see if a multiplayer game has a healthy enough player-count to justify a purchase. But beyond that, the number has absolutely zero bearing on anything. This is a cruel and unjust world. Some amazing games sold terribly. Some absolute trash sold great.

Thief shells tend to be fashion-forward, and not above grandstanding. Featured creators: Aishou, 2204Design, evelynnRNNR, cvber01, Deltaroo, Clairemwc, Stacey Blep, moonveiil, SkallEdit, Chocolace, and silent_sfm.

Reminder that Epic's last mass layoff was to ensure the business was sustainable, so no further layoffs would be necessary. www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/n...

Good news all around today

Its been a rough week so I'm doodling my boyfriend's and I comfort characters, and I realized I could do the meme

Sworcery turns 15 today, and we've got a big new feature looking back for the anniversary.

Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

I’m not a business genius or anything but if you shed 1800 jobs in three years, while owning one of the most popular entertainment products in history and the tool used to make it, maybe there are other questions to be asked somewhere.

Marathon is the textbook example of a first-party franchise you nurture until it blossoms. If Sony's not willing to do that then what's the point?

It seems that even fairly high-up senior people at Epic were completely blindsided by these layoffs. Major folks who'd been at the company for years informed 'Oh, we can't afford to pay any of you anymore, bye', with no idea there was any trouble. The math ain't mathing.

Thief! 🫵

30 years of RESIDENT EVIL :)

This past weekend, the new movie Project Hail Mary was a smash hit, bringing in nearly $141 million at the box office. But many years ago, before he was writing novels adapted into mega-hit films, Andy Weir was fired from his dream job... at Blizzard Entertainment. Excerpt from my latest book:

I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this. The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all! Games don't need VO to be good! By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!

Dune time among us again.

This is the gut of it for me: they’re terrified of failing. Uni is (or feels like it is) such a high cost high stakes activity that they can never be bad at something, never take longer to figure something out than their peers, never fail, never struggle. a constant “am I cooked” level of panic.

He’s beautiful

// TRAXUS OFFWORLD INDUSTRIES // OPERATE BEYOND SCALE // #Marathon #MarathonArt

Vandals #marathon

Still very fond of this doomguy pic I did a few years ago. It's using the actual Doom palette, too

fwiw