It's canon: Cortex is an ally! #SGDQ2026

I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.

One way you can show Microsoft your concern is here through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers today. Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year. Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. This is what a rigged system looks like.

With this renewed frustration over the lack of digital ownership, I hope more people support @gog.com. The preservation and no-DRM work they do provides the closest thing we have to truly owning your digital games.

One of the issues with the numbers they provide is that things are not equal. There are far more games available digitally than physically so naturally, you’ll see more sales on digital. Digital numbers can also factor in currency purchases for online only titles.

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

New PlayStation marketing just dropped

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

In my mind, AI, the specific type of LLMs destroying the world, remains one of the worst creations in human history.

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

A friendly reminder that Double Fine's Psychodyssey is one of the finest pieces of media ever created, and a must-watch for anyone who cares about video games, yet somehow it's also completely free www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Nice thing to see on my way home.

Very pleased with these SGF interviews scrutinizing questionable choices/ethical compromises. Keep this up! Please interrogate devs for why they think plagiarizing other artists is acceptable. Please ask Xbox about their relationship to BDS Please ask what motivates profiting off dead celebrities

It's wild to think GTA V and The Last of Us ran on a console with 256MB of RAM.

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Alex here has a great perspective on the looming AI issues in game dev, art work, and why the human art/programmer/playet connection is one of the most important things that this AI trash is actively seeking to replace. Read this!

This kind of shit talking only works when you can walk the walk to back it up and Tim Sweeney just fired 1000 people because his infinite money printer isn't growing as fast as he wants it to.

Part of being an AI user in creative works is convincing yourself that everyone ELSE uses it too, because otherwise you have to confront the reality that you're a faker and a fraud

Fucking prophetic line

PSA for YouTube Creators! Just wanna share this in case you don't want Google to have access to remix your YouTube shorts with GenAI using Gemini! YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED. Here is what it's doing and how to opt out of said option if you don't want your shorts to be remixed with AI.

I read articles like this and I'm simultaneously incrementing my own "I am right" counter and my "AI users are fucking dumb" counter. Because, I mean, fuck me. kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

📢 CALLING ALL NONBINARY GAME DEVS! 📢 i'm helping run a steam sale event to showcase games made by nonbinary devs during the week of international nonbinary day! if you fit this description, fill out the form by may 18 👉 forms.gle/cx9AqFfPqzF9... please share & send to all your nb dev friends!!

I saw very little Neo Geo+ coverage this week bothering to mention the man who owns SNK, and I think that is a failing. The retro gaming scene continues to shy away from any uncomfortable realities that get in the way of nostalgic good times. It can and should be better than that

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

Doki Doki Literature Club is a widely celebrated piece of videogame art, discusses deeply difficult topics in sincere and meaningful ways, and Google Play needs to revert the removal of the game immediately.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

There's no better day to pick up our reprinted TRANS RIGHTS tee! Every sale helps to raise money for the Transgender Law Center!

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! We're everywhere and we're cool. Here's the trans pride flag 🏳️‍⚧️ on a mid-90s Pentium running DOS.

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

"We as developers and players need to push back against this bullsh*t just like we did with NFTs and crypto games and try in vain to do with predatory micro transactions, loot boxes and battle passes."

I made a papercraft just for this

Let's say Product A and Product B both have the same price. Then, let's say the price of Product A goes up, while the price of product B stays the same. This does not mean that product B got cheaper!

Layoffs are not just “how the industry is going” They happen because pieces of shit who care only about themselves are put in positions of power Pieces of shit who have ruined this industry Never forget what these people have done. This industry is devastated, and their bank accounts are bulging

great reporting here. basically yes DLSS 5 is running a gen AI model on the 2D output and nothing more. it doesn’t know anything about the 3D scene, textures / models / lighting / PBR other than what the model infers by looking at a frame. TL:DR, they sped up slop. youtu.be/D0EM1vKt36s?...

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

nvidia unveils "mind blowing" new upscaling technology

weird that this impressive lighting tech also randomly turns everyone into yassified, looks-maxed freaks. it's like all this technology can't help itself but sexualize everything it touches. but like, through the lens of teenage boys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zlw...

This DLSS 5 AI dogshit is actually depressing man. Even worse is that a whole generation is growing up who won't even know this looks 'bad' or 'wrong' because to them it'll be normal. We need to push back harder against it.

A few shots from the arcade scene I created using low-poly models and pixel-art textures. #art #pixelart #lowpoly

My latest art project, an old-school arcade created using low-poly models and pixel-art textures. I'd greatly appreciate you checking it out, liking it, or sharing it! www.artstation.com/artwork/0lPQdG