New episode is live! 🎙️ @ashleypoprik.bsky.social returns to talk “From Fanfiction to Franchise” and how passion writing builds real skills for game narrative: voice, iteration, feedback, & collaboration. 🎧 bit.ly/ashley-popri... 📺 youtu.be/9sP_OeBHyPo #WritingForGames #NarrativeDesign #Fanfiction

nessa once had a projector bulb explode mid-GDC-talk and she kept on presenting that level of focus, that kind of steely professionalism is available for your next game team:

New year, new me (I have a mug warmer now)

Miles Morales is a great Christmas game btw. If you've played it before you can blast through the main story in 8-9 hours and there's decorations and snow through the whole thing. Also it's really sweet, it's about loving and protecting your community.

1000xRESIST isn’t on sale just on Steam… it’s now on sale on PlayStation, too! We’re so happy to have finally ported our Peabody award-winning game to PlayStation earlier this year – and now you can get it for 20% off. 💙 Hekki holidays!

My team is hiring narrative designers again! * Entry to mid-level! * Casual mobile games with campy fun stories * Big caveat: after a few months remote, you gotta do a year or two in-office in Beijing! * Pay is low by US standards but great for Beijing or Europe www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan...

I want to make a new introductory post so bad but I’m waiting on a ✨thing✨

"This is a little bit of proof, that you shouldn't be afraid to dig deep into your own lived experiences and culture for video games." –– Remy Siu, #1000xRESIST creative director. In this exclusive Peabody Conversation, Siu and actress Nhi Do reflect on what winning a Peabody means for #gaming.

current news has me thinking about the Lake House Alan Wake 2 DLC where a bunch of out-of-touch scientists can't figure out why a bad writer like Alan Wake can evoke emotion from people but their gigantic room filled with automatic typewriters only creates slop that kills you

EVERYONE GET MORE PASSIONATE AND SELF INDULGENT ABOUT CREATIVITY AND BEING HUMAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m supporting the Accelerate Mentorship Program at @takethis.org which helps early-career professionals in the games industry through mentorship and access to spaces like GDC. We’re raising the final $15,000 to unlock a $15,000 match and fully fund the next cohort. givebutter.com/TakeThisAcce...

📢 ISO OF LARIAN WORKERS 📢 I HIGHLY doubt everyone at Larian is OK with Gen A/I. If you work (or worked) for Larian, my DMs are open to you. I’m a journalist and I’m happy to talk about and/or publish anonymously your thoughts on this. If so, I’ll do a full piece about this. 🔁 RTs Appreciated! 🔁

APAB - assigned patriot at birth

We’re embracing the dark sci-fi world and survival extraction challenge of Marathon. 🔗 Watch the full video: youtu.be/fjzmhROTv28

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

SOUTH OF MIDNIGHT🥳🥳🥳🥳

I gotta put myself first

South of Midnight coming to Nintendo Switch 2 & PS5 in Spring 2026

🌠NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT🌠 Play as the last pelican in a world swallowed by shadows in Pelikeeper, a tower defense and base-building comfort strategy game! 🏚️Build up the settlement around your lighthouse 🐀Rescue lost animal neighbors 🌌Return constellations to the cosmos 💛WISHLIST NOW ON STEAM💛

I got shingles during SM2 and it’s still the sickest I’ve ever felt in my life

Today’s mood:

Dredgen Bael #destiny2 #destiny2art #art #gemkimart

I’m super proud of this little lore tab 🙂‍↕️ I love putting this little freak in a jar and shaking him around ✨

I’m super proud of this little lore tab 🙂‍↕️ I love putting this little freak in a jar and shaking him around ✨

Game devs, I need your insight! What are your favorite 2D games with sidequests?

Come help us write articles for the internet made by humans https://kotaku.com/kotaku-is-looking-for-freelance-contributors-2000650081

dredgen bael is destiny 2's shadow daddy no, I will not elaborate

Happy Renegades Day to all who celebrate! 💫 I’m truly so proud of the work we did on this one and haven’t been this personally excited for something I’ve worked on to come out in a long time. The day is finally here! ❤️

Smol Dredgen Bael ✨️

Giggling and kicking my feet because everyone gets to meet my favorite little rat tomorrow 💙✨ youtu.be/esFPGaptCdg?...

Hubs and I wanted to go to the movies. Knives Out was sold out so we saw Rental Family instead. Reader, we got the better deal.

Quick sketch of Dredgen Bael #Destiny2

Caught up on the Renegades stream last night and apparently my girl is getting a gun?! “Service of Luzaku” Good for her imo #destiny2art #destiny2AOTW

Dredgen Bael #destiny2art

Every “this 90s video game soundtrack did NOT have to go this hard” video essay fails to note President Clinton’s pledge that by the end of the decade, America would create a video game soundtrack that “goes extremely hard”

This is today!! Come bring some non-perishables and say hi ✨

New phone wallpaper dropped ✨

Congrats to Jennifer English for winning the Best Lead Performer award at the 2025 #GoldenJoystickAwards! And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈

Really curious if whoever selected the TGA nominees actually played South of Midnight because if they had, it wouldn’t have only been nominated for “Games for Impact.” Which imo that category in itself is just another performative copout but hey what do I know 🤷

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

One final Witching Season announcement.... AMBER BENSON from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER will be writing a foreword for our anthology! We are so thrilled to have one of our favorite witches (Tara 😭) contribute to this book. This truly means the world to me 💜 www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

Hey so, today is my last day at Crystal Dynamics apparently. I joined the company in 2018 to work on Marvel's Avengers and it's been the longest (and best) job I've ever had. It now means I'm looking for work, so if you know of any senior writer/narrative designer positions please send them my way.

again i am perfectly fine with locking every one of Jeffrey Epstein's friends in prison, Democrat, Republican or Whatever.

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

While I’m disappointed in Future Class as a program holy moly do I have so much gratitude for the people in the cohorts. I would follow you all into battle. We are out there doing the work every day to make our industry and art form a better place. Geoff can join us if he wants. Love you all. 💖

if you don’t hire VO actors you don’t get to make them laugh, which is one of the great joys in life

Hey all you gamers claiming to "want shorter games made by fewer people who are paid more to work less" here's your chance to put your $15 where your mouth is: a spooky & elegiac exploration game made by ex-Bethesda & Ubi devs. It's excellent. Buy it & prove there's a market for games like this!