DON HERTZFELDT, in this the year of our oversized spoon 2026, has uploaded a HD version of Rejected to his YT channel?!?!?! OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS I'M SO HAPPY HIIIIII

Impressive… most impressive!

New fund for UK game developers launched today and I'm super proud to say I worked on it! Please go and apply if you have a suitable game as its been a labour of love! New fund of up to 50k per game for localisation, marketing, PR, Influencers, etc  www.bfi.org.uk/get-funding-...

It's heartbreaking that games as a medium remain out of reach for people telling the stories worth telling most. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Mesmerizing first trailer for "Wildwood", the new stop motion feature film by LAIKA Studios. Full 4K video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=POne...

Great workflow by Stefan Iverson to use primitive cubes to blockout timing, spacing and intention of #animation before getting into poses and polish www.youtube.com/watch?v=33sL...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

I think I'd say ... Don't run universities like a business; run them like universities. Not everything is assimilable to some other market-based category. Universities have their origins, and in many ways find their deepest purposes, in a medieval world very different from our own.

🚨NEW VIDEO ALERT🕹️ In the era of genAI there is perhaps no better time to focus on the work that goes into creating video game art. So in our latest episode of HOW GAMES ARE MADE we focus on the work that goes into designing characters. How Games Are Made: Character Design youtu.be/lh6jyd8QT70

Nintendo could have had the easiest LEGO collaboration if they just locked in... #MetroidPrime4

Knights and Bikes is proud to be part of the "Backed by Backers" Steam Event and will be 50% off for the duration of the event! Grab it now if you want to jump into some nostalgic co-op fun! store.steampowered.com/app/592480/K...

A useful bookmark for #gamedev character artists when the site is back up! afroindex.org

You've got THREE more days to get Mythmatch 20% off in our launch sale! And seems like folks are loving it! 100% positive with 61 reviews. 5 / 5 - The Guardian 8 / 10 - Edge 96 / 100 - Screen Hype 4.5 / 5 - So Many Games store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/...

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library. 193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

This past Saturday marked 40 years of the Legend of Zelda, my favourite video game series of all time! Here are some AU drawings I have made over the last few years. #lozfanart #zeldaau

The 40th anniversary of Zelda is all the excuse you need to submerge yourself in classic Katsuya Terada art.

hard for us right now, and yet 💖

JOB ALERT! Work in marketing? Want to come and work with one of the best game studios in the UK? Come join us! We'd love to talk to you! wrkbl.ink/eibl3nI

I just thought everyone should see this

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003) had over 750 animations for the Prince alone (when accounting for transitions). That was a huge number for the time.

I’m excited to be delivering a remote workshop on Performance Capture #mocap in SODA@MMU live to University of #Mauritius this morning/ afternoon through a multicam setup! I’m already getting flashbacks to doing this to multiple time zones in lockdown!

I signed up for this course on a history of popular romance and I'm so excited. Look at this reading list!!! Behold 👀 It's online and open to anyone, anywhere. Join me :)

My hot take is Uni libraries should become hybrid, distributing subject specific books to particular schools/ departments, instead of treating libraries as monolithic temples of knowledge to travel to.

The developers of PEAK explain pricing

Do any #Actors/ #performers in #Manchester fancy trying Performance Capture aka #mocap ? It's 11-1pm Thurs 15th of Jan in SODA@MMU. It's always a fun experience so please share away!

Do any #Actors/ #performers in #Manchester fancy trying Performance Capture aka #mocap ? It's 11-1pm Thurs 15th of Jan in SODA@MMU. It's always a fun experience so please share away!

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

My best of 2025. However a sleepless child means I still haven’t seen Sinners, One Battle After Another or Predator Badlands.

You have to say that's magnificent

A quarter of book sales are over the festive season so if you're after some gift ideas & want to support local booksellers checkout my diverse suggestions: uk.bookshop.org/shop/Satish

#peaceprize #tacos

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Sad not to have gotten Radiohead tix but some saint has kindly uploaded the entire first show! youtu.be/ze8ZAlTyEIU?...

They did the thing! #MetroidPrime4Beyond

The only use of generative AI I’ll allow is this guy’s videos, where he’s having trouble directing “actors” to stop being weird. (They’re better on IG but that platform doesn’t want you sharing links outside of the app) youtu.be/AEbqJj2hIjg

UK friends: if you haven’t seen The Terror, it is currently free on ITVX. It’s a must watch for horror fans.

Sorry friends for over-saturation, but much of my work on historical game studies & history ed never gets seen in the void. So, if you didn't know or forgot, I have a series of talks and a couple of videos I designe on these subjects, now you do! (I'll take likes as welcome news) #AncientBluesky 🗃️

If you're a big fan of this, there's one for book covers that I love to browse all the time. fontsinuse.com

Nintendo has released a 35 page digital sample of #Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visual Retrospective. #OperationMetroidPrime4 shinesparkers.net/metroid-prim...

Me and Ashoka had a blast reading @gwillow.me excellent run on Ms Marvel together. We switched to Miles Morales & even with Comixology grouping + ComicBookReadingOrder.com trying to buy & read a sequential order of comics is a nightmare to try &follow with retitles, collections & numbering restarts

From "Niccolo" graduation short film (Gobelins school, France). Inspired by Italian violinist and composer Niccolo Paganini. And I can also feel Yoshitaka Amano's influence, clearly. Coming October 8 on Youtube. www.instagram.com/niccolo.gobe...

Forever thinking about the Irn Bru Dreamcast I saw at Retro Games at the Barras.

I'm doing a masterclass with @intogames.bsky.social on the business side of what I do. I am really happy for this opportunity to share my experience, including setting up, setting rates, finding work and all the fun side of running a freelance business. Join us! www.intogames.courses/course/gamed...

The first Indian restaurant was introduced to the UK about half a century before the first Fish and Chip shop!

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.