The Day of the Devs: San Francisco Edition roster is finally here! Check out all of the games you'll be able to play at the Midway on Sunday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJf0...

Future? No Thanks! Has a kind of website now: futurenothanks.com futurenothanks.com futurenothanks.com And the teaser trailer has been updated with final(?) art just in time for @dayofthedevs.org

I'm definitely in San Francisco

This kind of post-truth, trollish warporn has been around for a while, except the kids who popularized it work at the White House now.

U.S. Military Announces Plan To Consolidate All Wars Into Final, Epic Battle https://theonion.com/u-s-military-announces-plan-to-consolidate-all-wars-in-1824018300/

You asked for it! The long-awaited sequel to You Are Jeff Bezos is finally here: YOU ARE ELON MUSK 200+ passages. 7 endings. Secrets. In-jokes. Giant robots. All with the purpose of doing one thing: SPENDING ALL OF ELON MUSK'S FUCKING MONEY direkris.itch.io/elon

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The entire U.S. foreign policy seems modeled on the lamest Hollywood trope. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...

The NYT style guide

The rumors are true! Future? No Thanks! will be playable at Day of the Devs in San Francisco. I'll be there too! March 8 - 3PM to 8PM - Free www.dayofthedevs.org/events/day-o...

I feel like today the U.S. is the only country where this "regime change by decapitation" idea could actually work.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

I know Horsey Game looks like a joke with a crude, janky style, but I’m 8hrs in and it’s the funniest, most brilliantly designed game I’ve played in years. I could list dozens of hilarious emergent moments from my playthrough but I don’t want to say too much. store.steampowered.com/app/3602570/...

This doesn't seem worth having a Discord account

Are gamers okay? The fact that video games are competing with porn and online gambling says a lot about their place in culture. kotaku.com/why-the-vide...

The biggest news in games right now is Horsey Game. A sophisticated open world horse betting/breeding life sim from the maker of Desert golfing, Freeways and Enviro-bear 2000.

Probably a good idea to drop the AI-as-autocomplete meme, and the wishful belief that when the bubble bursts, everything will just go away. This romantic denial precludes more important debates about AI’s deployment, impact, regulation, and socialization. www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

From Indiepocalypse to Sindiegularity Even if code & art stop being production "bottlenecks", nothing improves in terms of: * attention: we're not getting more free time to play * discoverability: algos and chaotic virality rule * sustainability: prices fall to zero, only landlords win

🚨 HUGE NEWS! 🚨 All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life. Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too! Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev

new blog post: The future of public game arts festivals and non-commercial games culture, with notes on @free-play.bsky.social / indie games events around the world www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/02/the-...

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential! gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

Union-Made Game Jam is now open for sign-ups! Next week, UVW members and friends are making some bite-sized, union-themed games to show at our GDC booth! We hope you’ll join us! #UnionMadeJam itch.io/jam/union-ma...

No ICE in Minnesota bundle is live! Get Gunhouse, Hyper Gunsport, and 1,400 other things for $10 or more. itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939

The paradox of political art under fascism is that it is asked to compensate for a failed political opposition while, at the same time, bland statements like "we should be nice to each other" or "I should be allowed to exist" come to be seen as radical and therefore sufficient.

Helldivers adding millennials as the newest enemy faction

It looks like one of those cheeky sculptures by Maurizio Cattelan

Adobe has spent over twenty years torturing and maiming Flash.

Video game stocks crashed the other day after Google announced its "world-building" AI. I admit I’m charmed by these dream-logic walking-sim slopsperiences but I doubt Gamers will be. The main use case is likely streamers crowdsourcing meme prompts and making fun of them until the novelty wanes.

“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

For every retweet I will make Zuckerberg’s creep glasses 5% thicker

Billionaires for Bush was a political street theater group active in the early 2000s. Yesterday’s satire is today’s normalcy.

I taught a video making class last semester and I can confirm that getting students to pay attention even to *contemporary animated shorts* is getting more challenging every year. I like the "slow cinema" approach. Reclaiming our attention is a skill we can and should teach. (now with gift link)

*me optimizing my game*: do I even need shadows?

I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01 A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format. Thanks for playing and sharing!

Between the financialization of everything and declining birth rates, this truly looks like the game for our times.

Understandably the NYT piece* included only a soundbite but if you want to know ✨WHAT I THINK ABOUT PEAK✨ here's the full conversation. * www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/a...

I'm back in the NYT with a piece on my favourite micro-genre: climbing games. I especially love their suggestion that anyone, even vertigo sufferers, can be a climber, converting the environment before them into a symbolic system of self-expression. ⛰️ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/a...

The regime likes influencers because they are cultural agents that can be directed, elevated, and canceled by the algorithms it controls. A content creator is, by definition, an artist whose entire livelihood depends on one click or one line of code. hyperallergic.com/influencers-...

Here's the video of ICE beating a man and then shooting him while he was on the ground from a credible source. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Two lifelong goals achieved

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

I KNEW IT! PINGU HAS AN ITALIAN ACCENT!

From @molleindustria.org in the book Architecture and Videogames: Intersecting Worlds. This is what my architecture masters thesis was on and it was quite controversial at the time (2009), but I’ve seen hopeful progress towards it since. Hoping for more opportunities to talk w/ architecture schools

Here’s a friendly reminder about the conference we are running at the ITU in May: playingfutures.today Deadline for abstracts is February 16th, and the conference will take place May 20th to 22nd in Copenhagen. Look at our call for papers for more details: playingfutures.today/call-for-pap...

I frankly don’t understand why European governments aren’t simply buying US politicians the way Israel does. They’re very cheap.