Huge congrats to Expedition 33, obvs, but even bigger congrats to my Shart, Jennifer English, who’s soaring higher than Artemis. Jen said winning the BAFTA was the final thing on her old vision board that, until tonight, hadn’t been realised. Jen, this picture is going up on SO MANY vision boards…

Anyway, if you're in Western Mass and want to talk video games, come chat with me tomorrow

Tron is a film about PC culture gone mad

Netflix’s Puzzled app giving serious What The Fuck vibes today…

Amazing how something so completely out of the blue can bring what matters into complete focus and everything else just… gommages.

If the people making the damn mistakes were made to pay them back I can assure you they’d make fewer of them. Write it off and get the money from the Covid contract fraudsters whose issuing department decided to let off, you massively incompetent arseholes.

Here me out: take all of it. Take his shirt and shoes.

Definitely coming back here when I unlock bombs.

Today’s poem is called ‘The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted’.

Call off the hunt, I found the Easter Eggs…

Let's replace 'save scumming' with 'save game enthusiast'.

“I've hit bottom. You know, when you're in the gutter, you got an empty fifth of vodka next to you, a crack pipe, and you can't wake up. I *know* what the bottom is. But when you hit bottom… you'd be surprised at just how much give that floor has.” - Myron Cohen

Okay. An important moment for us, if you’ll indulge me with a repost. It’s time to start the very first whisper of noise about our next game. It’s a mailing list! But it’s a mailing list that I’m hoping will be a bit different than what you’re used to. mailchi.mp/bithellgames...

Lemme boost this for you, hopefully someone who can make that happen for you will see it 🤞🏽

One of my favourite GIFs? Why yes, here you go…

Both lists exactly the same. One is all Bob’s English audiobooks, the other is my Library of Bob’s audiobooks. Exactly the same list, ordered by A to Z. One counts The as the title, the other doesn’t. YOU MAD BASTARDS

I hate this idea that gen ai in the early stages of development is okay as long as there isn't gen AI assets in the final game. Everything in early development informs the final game. I don't want this to become the norm 🫩

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Oft shared but immensely illustrative of the difference that drives this stuff. There are just a lot of people on the planet who think ‘the transition from scene 5 to scene 6’ is the challenge of being David Simon, rather than the fucking point of being David Simon.

There’s something extremely poetic about Disney - the masters of illusion - saying that OpenAI is too smoke-and-mirrors even for them.

So getting rid of at least a combined thousand years of experience helps improve next year’s shareholder dividend? Then the shareholders start to flee because the roadmap will obviously shrink. Then more layoffs. Ad infinitum.

Small note. Mass layoffs like these are also a tactic to devalue the work because workers become more desperate while companies create false scarcity. Do not, ever, forget your worth. Don’t let them win. You make this industry exist. They don’t.

Buy this or I swear to god I’ll haunt your dreams.

Sometime in the future, when I’m feeling despair, it will help if I can remember that somewhere there is a warm and humorous woman who possesses institutional knowledge on the best ways to feed baby beavers.

Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.

Perennial reminder: ‘Babe’ would have had a *very* different final scene if the line was “Fuck it, that’ll do, Pig…”

Amazing news!! Looks like we’ve finally got a BG3 TCG!!!

This needs to stop…

Loco Motive has officially sold over 50,000 copies since launch, across PC & Nintendo Switch! 🎉 A huge milestone for a debut title from a new studio! Thanks so much for your support - whether you’ve played the game, left a review, championed us on juries or shared with your community.

Javier Bardem… 💪🏻🔥

Soooo… the PrimeTime Emmy for sound isn’t going to go to The Oscars huh…?

Let’s go… #WeekendWork

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Wait… so my phone is going to start restricting access to parts of my phone if I don’t give them my ID…?? wtaf????

Just laughed way too loud in a Nero…

The amount of events and festivals around the country using genAI for their promotional images is slightly maddening. All about supporting local, except their local artists.

Buy this when it comes out again. It's a great book, and Joel's a great bloke, and this is one of many books that was completely fucked by Unbound stealing all their authors' money.

If you enjoyed Hob's Barrow please consider posting a quick little review on Steam, it really helps keep us afloat! 🙏❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

This was so damn fun to do. Huge thanks to everybody at Fall Damage, they’re *lovely* 🤗🧡🤗 #BG3 #BaldursGate #Halsin #BearDaddy #GoodGodIHateDoingHashtags

@abubakarsalim.bsky.social joins the Village this week to end Season 2; we chat Tales of Kenzera: ZAU, working for Ridley Scott, and questionable casting choices 🧐 Abu’s episode airs on Thursday over on my YouTube!

Pale Meat Sandwich £15 🧡

Just been reminded about when Paul and Barry Chuckle opened a bookshop…

“What’s a line delivery you’ll never forget?” One line? Hell no… *all* of them.

Very sad news about the death of Rob Grant (co-writer, Red Dwarf, amongst many other things) RIP.

Not the thread we wanted, but definitely the thread we all need.

Wish I could join in on this. Way too obvious 😂

That moment when you realise you may have just lost your *entire* work email account (and history) and every subsequent bit of research seems to confirm your suspicions…

They’ve been teasing this car for well over a week now… when are we going to finally see the new Audi Milano Cortina???

The council:

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥