If it isn't the much talked about Zeitgeist delivering fresh games ❤️lovingly crafted and ✊propagated by @maxhaiven.bsky.social and @plutopress.bsky.social to my door today 🤩 I know what I'll bring to the next union meeting for educational purposes ^^ #boardgames #politicalgames

✊🌀We stand with Ubisoft employees in France and beyond opposing unilateral layoffs, project cancellations, and enforced return-to-office policies pushed without meaningful social dialogue Creative work needs respect, stability, and worker participation — not top-down mandates!!!!

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

🇬🇧✊🌀 Ubisoft: unions called for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th. Here is the list of all the pickets around France ⤵️

We are thrilled to announce a collaborative event between the @nfdi4culture.bsky.social and @femdevsmeetup.bsky.social ! 🏛️🕹️🧭💚 📅 20th February - 15:00h 🗺️ Berlin - Haus Bastian ( @kulturspk.bsky.social ) ℹ️ Info & registrations: nfdi4culture.de/id/E6659

please don't rob yourself from the time to create things. and become little vaults of art at home. keep the dvds, buy books, save those pdfs, download the flacs, get drm-free versions of everything. reject the tool that saves you from thinking. any industry or market can fall, humanity should not.

"We will not be bullied into submission": Ubisoft unions call for massive international strike aftermath.site/ubisoft-union-...

💬🦜First talk of the year come up today 🎈 I'm heading out to the @unicologne.bsky.social to talk at the Colloquium of Digital Cultural Heritage about one of dearest topics: Historical theory and the design of historical games ❤️✨ #history #historicalgames #gamestudies #gameresearch

I might not be the an Assassin's Creed fan, it's more an abusive relationship being a historian. BUT Mirage must simply be the best game of the series because I can cuddle cuts. And man do I stop in the middle of a any mission to do so 🐈🐈‍⬛🐱😸 #cats

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

Abiturent Bentik wurde wegen Memes gegen die #Bundeswehr verurteilt. Laut ihm handelte es sich um ein politisches Verfahren: Der deutsche Staat wolle nicht, dass sich Jugendliche gegen die Aufrüstung stellen.

Please seek help immediately: aftermath.site/please-seek-he...

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1753. WRITING GAME HISTORIES ​ 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/writing... "An accessible guide to Historical Game Studies, exploring how games represent, shape, and create history across digital and analogue forms" #Books #Booksky #Gaming #VideoGames #GameStudies #GamingThePast

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Vibe therapy by trucking

Washington sperrt fünf Europäer*innen wegen angeblicher Zensur aus. Frankreich und die EU-Kommission kritisieren das scharf, Deutschland nur verhalten. Auch an den drei betroffenen Organisationen gibt es aber Kritik. buff.ly/mOFwB4p

Danke an die hunderten neuen Mitglieder, die in den letzten Stunden eingetreten sind und alle, die schon seit Jahren für unsere Arbeit einstehen. Diese Solidarität ist die stärkste Antwort auf die Angriffe auf linke Strukturen. Sie zeigt: Die Rote Hilfe bleibt – kämpfend, sichtbar, organisiert.

Innerhalb weniger Tage kündigen Sparkasse Göttingen und GLS-Bank alle Konten der Rote Hilfe e.V. Der Grund: US-Druck über SWIFT. Auch DKP, ABC und weitere linke Organisationen sind betroffen. Das ist kein Einzelfall. Das ist politisch. Jetzt ist Solidarität gefragt. rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...

Favorite game I played in 2025: Fear the Spotlight. Good scope, smooth level design, top notch graphics. Check it out!

Mandatory crunch time to complete a demo is not what we sign up for as video game workers, yet it's a reality we're all too familiar with as studio execs exploit our passion for the games that we create and love. And it won't stop unless we organize.

Oi! Pinterest! Why the actual fuck is this the default setting? Rhetorical question. FU

Tu lugar en el mundo según tus ingresos. Abrir el link puede ponerte de mala leche.

I don't think Larian's CEO understands how art is made: aftermath.site/larian-ceo-ai-...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

"Anyone who works in the games industry can identify that our art form is being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money. And they don’t care about the games. They don’t care about the art. They just want their money." @alyssamerc.bsky.social

Not a big announcement but we want to make this clear: we have never nor will ever use generative AI. And that goes for all kind of assets. No placeholders mid development, no presentation materials, no automated localization or voice acting replacement. 🌹 #indiegame #horrorgames #fuckAI

I just remembered that my favorite store is in Madrid @amigastore.bsky.social

Trade unions involved in gaming from Europe's five largest markets have decided to work more closely together following discussions in Paris. Part of the meeting were @cgt.es (Spain); FSU (Irland), IWGB (UK), @stjv.fr and @social.verdi.de www.gamesmarket.global/european-tra...

"Together, workers can transform their jobs, their careers, and their lives for the better." Our statement of solidarity with 5 other game workers unions in Europe including @stjv.fr, @csvi-cgt.bsky.social & @gwuireland.bsky.social www.gameworkers.co.uk/one-industry...

This is bullshit. "absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground. "how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.

Meeting more militant people from video game unions or even from the STJV but from other cities is as exhausting as other social activities but I love them so much, they're all so awesome people 🥰

220 employees at Rockstar North have signed a letter condemning the dismissal of 31 workers amid union busting accusations www.gamesindustry.biz/over-200-roc...

This afternoon, IWGB Game Workers joined together with unions from all over Europe, including @stjv.fr and @csvi-cgt.bsky.social to protest against Rockstar's union busting in Paris - on est là!

We were also joined by trade unionists from the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Italy, and Germany!

Protests continued today outside Take Two's offices in London, but also in Paris, where Le Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (@stjv.fr) came out to show their international solidarity with the fired Rockstar workers.

👁️👁️ #indiegame #horrorgames

a friend of mine is making a beautiful story-driven space combat game and he just got the steampage up and ready! ✨️🚀🌍🛸⭐️🪐 take a look and wishlist it! 💗 #indiegame #solodev store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/...

no m'ho puc creure 😭💖✨️ publicarem més cosetes aviat! literal que m'he fet rosetes per a cel.lebrar-ho només arribar a casa 🍿✨️ -- thank you so much for your support, people 💗 we can't wait to show you more! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 @achtungautobahn.com

After Utopian fiction on to Argentinian experimental literature of the 1950s. Cortázar's Hopscotch can be read in multiple ways, from front to back or by following several predefined different paths. An existentialist stream of consciousness indulging in the deconstruction of its own form.

Scare your boss this Halloween by talking to your coworkers (on your personal devices outside of company time, ideally on an encrypted app like Signal) about organizing your workplace 👻

We're cooking something #indiegame #horrorgames

Mi crónica del BCN Game Fest se ha alargado más de lo esperado y por eso sale un poco tarde pero ya está aquí: @bcngamefest.bsky.social @indiedevday.bsky.social aventurasrojo.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/u...

New thing I'm trying: Posting all the harmless books I'm reading to relax... Let's start with Le Guin's The Dispossed. What utopian fiction have you been reading lately?

Last speaker before the last break is @rbrandis.eu talking about specters of the past and the practice of historiography in Kentucky Route Zero!

Bettina Bódi brings coziness at #TIPC4 talking about virtual roads and real ecologies!

And to conclude the first session of #TIPC4 @gatdesoia.es will be talking about what industry expertise can do for the digitization of kinetic cultural heritage!

Spooky season is upon us, so I'm giving a talk about ghosts @valuefnd.bsky.social's #TIPC4 💾 👻Spectres of the Past. The Practice of Historiography in Kentucky Route Zero ❤️📜 📄 interactivepasts.com/the-interact... Tune in, 10/10 at 3pm! 📺 www.twitch.tv/streamingthe... #gamestudies #historicalgames

I'm giving a talk at @bcngamefest.bsky.social 🎮🔻 There's No Need to Rig That Thing: Animation for Video Games. 🌊💗🐬✨ Come for an hour on animation styles, methods and pipelines! ℹ️ bcngamefest.com 📅 Saturday 11/10 at 14:00h at the Main Stage. 🥪 Don't forget your sandwich! #gamedev #animation