You know AI is cooked when the only defense CEOs can think of to try and get people off their backs is to say “We just use it like this other thing that already existed!” Like wow, what a ringing endorsement of AI.

"we use AI tools to explore references just like we use google and art books" okay you can continue exploring references without using AI because your artists already proved to be capable of doing the work without it... and there's no shortage of ideas because everyone is an idea guy??

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Hey when we take a breath from the Larian AI discourse let’s acknowledge how all their “open secret” practices are coming to light and then let’s spin around again on whether or not The Games Awards actually does anything for workers who make games.

This is an extremely funny way to word what is essentially an unintentional, damning indictment of capitalism. The imaginatively empty billionaires both need AI to be a success for money and also to feed them regurgitated nonsense ideas to try and keep their capitalist way of life going a bit longer

Clarify what? It was pretty clear what he meant. It’s still trash and bad and I hate it.

One take from a former Larian artist, following my interview with Swen Vincke this morning:

I do not understand why creatives would touch generative AI for iterating/concepting/placeholder text unless you like scaffolding your gingerbread house together with vomit or something

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

Larian using genAI. Hate that.

Let’s do a thinking exercise. Don’t tell me. Just answer to yourself. Sandfall Interactive won the most awards a studio has ever won in a single TGA. It was basically everything they were nominated for. There were so many workers who accepted awards. Name a single worker from Sandfall Interactive.

Josh hits it.

When I first got onto Overwatch 2 less than a month ago, I was at endorsement level 2. I’m now at endorsement level 4!

Another one for the “she who laughs last laughs loudest” folder. The fact that there’s a part of the tale of toxic kpop fans harassing LE SSERAFIM specific to Tyla makes this news just a little sweet lol

It’s going to be really awkward when dumb gamers start up an extraction shooter fan war and the two big sci-fi ones have to argue with each other over which game stole art in a more abhorrent way.

Fallout S2 tomorrow!

Fascist republicans will be like “Trust fund baby you’ve never heard of talks to other lazy rich person you’ve never heard of. Tune in to this incredibly important interview, audience of real people who have real shit to worry about.” And then wonder why their numbers ain’t shit.

Would be cool if the DICE awards got much more attention.

I don’t know why the algorithm is suddenly showing me toxic gaming bullshit when it’s never tried to feed me anything gaming related before now. Today I’ve gotten a bunch of Street Fighter movie shit, and then a conspiracy about Kojima hating E33 (even though he hosted the team at his studio…)😒

sorry to post tweets but the accuracy of this made me gasp out loud

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

Game Awards last year took place during a videogame strike against AI The strike wasn’t mentioned or acknowledged despite many VO performers working on the games that are heralded every year and even appearing on stage This year a game that features AI voiceover gets a podium to accept an award.

Guys is this good for Lúcio?

Me at the start of this round: Do you think they’ll notice? Me at the end of this round: Wow, they really didn’t notice.

I just had an OW2 match where 5 people quit one at a time. After finally getting consistent teammates we brought it back from getting blown out 0-3…only to lose in part because our Cassidy went afk 😭

I expected to disagree with parts of this when I started reading. But I ended up agreeing with all of it. As someone who adored both Expedition 33 this year and Metaphor last year it’s been very jarring watching the RPG discourse in 2025.

Maybe the best of the three films. It’s a tossup between this one and Knives Out. The acting, directing, lighting, etc. is all off the charts.

Wake Up Dead Man

I should start playing ranked…

Playing D.Va for a full match for the first time in forever. It’s a fairly mediocre POTG but whatever, it’s mine!

Overwatch really just threw me into a match that had the overtime timer ticking down as soon as I logged in.

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Not only that it came less than a minute after focusing on a child with her mother. Steam has notably denied NSFW vns in the past because there was a child as part of the cast unrelated to any NSFW material. If you're big enough and not anime the kid can be standing 5 feet away from an orgy I guess

Honestly I think the big takeaway from Expedition 33’s sweep last night should be that everyone appreciates someone who comes after

Ooo they almost got me. I got called a useless tank by 2 teammates who did nothing while I pushed the payload by myself and got quadruple teamed. I'm not trying to hear it from my 2 healers who couldn't break 2.5k heals while the enemy healers were both pushing 6k each.

Man…if you ever worked on a banger game franchise for a large company it sure seems like Lucasfilm would very much like to let you do Star Wars for them.

I can't wait for the Concord-like discourse where every online thread is 95% people hating a game they know nothing about for doing things it doesn't do, and the remaining 5% are people just trying to talk amongst themselves because they actually enjoy playing. Not liking the vibe I get. Hating?👎

Reupping this – if you are someone with epilepsy or photosensitivity, how did the trailers during the Game Awards negatively impact you? Whether watching virtually or in person. I'm working on a piece for this very topic

Clair Obscur team, your haters are now waiters at the table of your success.

Once again, as others have said, a game with the budget and retail pricing of Expedition 33 winning all these awards SHOULD be a wake up call to the industry. It won’t be. But it should be.

Mighty No. 9 looks sick.

this person should be on a ban list. it's outrageous to let a known and prolific harasser into a ticketed industry event

My wife got a new Stargate and Ace Combat announcements this year. As she deserves! @grizzlei.bsky.social

My wife is frozen in excitement for Ace Combat omg lol

Finally some 40K love.

Closed captioning has a good take on Arc Raiders

Look all jokes aside I think a game that retailed for $50 and had a reasonable, sustainable budget sweeping the awards is probably a good message to send to the industry, if it's even capable of listening.

Hey everyone going WELL TIME TO PLAY MORE FORTNITE TO HUNT DOWN PEOPLE WEARING HARRY POTTER STUFF No. Stop playing Fortnite. They're partnering with Rowling and Harry Potter in 2025, with full knowledge of what that decision means. Stop supporting them. Stop playing the game.

Hell yeah get your speech time!