New today: @reveleth.com has spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t. www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

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Spent a whole issue of @aiandgames.com last month ripping these surveys apart. Everyone from AI providers to GDC like to pretend they represent the voice of the industry. All of them talk out their ass and over-inflate their worth. www.aiandgames.com/p/separating...

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something. www.ign.com/articles/tun...

I've always thought esports were overrated, but I'm happy to report I was wrong

Absolutely and utterly tragic loss. My sincere condolences to Vince’s family and friends, as well as to the others in the accident who didn’t make it. This is heart wrenching.

I gotta hand it to whatever advertising firm Informa hired to make these, there really is something almost poetic about GDC's advertising being "an AI-looking depiction of an industry staple being destroyed with no clear elaboration of what comes after." Masterclass in unintentionally nailing it.

I realized I’ve been sort of mourning the internet lately. It’s odd. This ‘place’ that used to contain a wealth of actually valuable information, and introduced me to many people I now call friends, and which paved the way for my career, has almost completely rotted away. It’s not coming back.

Bloody hell, well played

The WORST thing about getting published by Devolver is that we had to get rid of this

Gamedev peeps! You should go give Soupy a follow! Fantastic designer from OG Infinity Ward/Respawn; he made Rust in COD MW2 (2009), he made Into the Abyss (the factory level) in Titanfall 2 (among other things), he's done a GDC talk (youtu.be/CkHGuHd9BgU), and he somehow has under 100 followers here

i mean they can change what they want it's just weird to give he fangs out of nowhere

A day late but 👋

GDC talk submissions are open and just wanted to point out to people that if you were planning to apply to talk at a summit (like indie summit, narrative summit, tools summit, etc.) that there's only one call for submissions now and it's only open for a month: gdconf.com/gdc-call-for...

introducing the "puzzle compass," a certifiably correct and statistically proven chart of my infallible opinion what games need added? let me know, because i am the authority on this purely objective study #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gamestudies

Windblown fully went under my radar because I saw it was early access and did the usual "I'll wait 'till 1.0" thing, which also caused me to miss that a) Danger did the OST b) it's less a soundtrack and more a new original album. it BANGS

I left this studio in the spring but this still feels so fucking bad. Some of the most talented people I have ever worked with were at this studio. If you want some truly incredible designers, engineers, programmers on your team, consider the folks from Cliffhanger.

Seriously, do not buy, stream, or otherwise support of promote more Harry Potter bullshit. It is no longer theoretical - Rowling is funelling those wizard bucks into getting the law changed to actively oppress an already-vulnerable minority.

𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿😈💚🩷 実装して1年ですね！ #ApexLegendsFanart #ApexLegends

Exercise your right to vote today, Canadians! Own your democracy! 🇨🇦🗳️

My 2025 GDC talk has been posted to the vault! I'm quite proud of how it turned out, and hope that any gameplay engineer could take something away from it! If you have vault access, check it out! gdcvault.com/play/1035276...

Imagine Ben shows up at your studio's door with one of the most staggering digital art portfolios in games, and it falls apart because someone wants him feeding the AI prompt mines instead of, you know, making actual art. Clown town.

My son works for this company here in the U.K. It was playing the video game ‘Deus Ex’ that set him on the path to becoming a Biomechanical Engineer. Sometimes, it’s nice to highlight the good things that video games can do. And also remind myself just how proud of him I am.

Great video of tips for using Alter's tac! youtu.be/Qay8CsdOZ2M?...

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A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.

hey so uh one of the main Nintendo Switch 2 Direct streams completely ate our trailer due to I guess technical difficulties?? so if you guys could share this it would mean a lot 😅

Nessie is here to say: TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

It’s wild to me that the most useful thing - debugging code - is wildly out of reach for AI but these hucksters keep saying bigger and bigger promises. Do your engineers spend more time typing new code or debugging?

POV: you are the last slice of cheesecake in the fridge.

The AC shrine 'controversy' is absolutely unhinged. Gamergaters managed to convince a crank Japanese politician to ask 'Wouldn't it be fucked up if people were inspired by games to destroy real life shrines?' and the prime minister replied 'Yeeeees???' and Ubisoft panic-patch in invulnerable shrines

Coding up the exodia logic was pretty tough, but I think the payoff was worth it

It's time!! Come out to room 2005 in the West Hall! We're getting started in 10 min, hope to see you there! #GDC2025

'I'm worried about the death of art:' What will generative AI cost us in the end?

Speaker rehearsal complete! Feeling good for tomorrow, hope to see you all there!

I'm speaking at @officialgdc.bsky.social this year! Want to learn about the tech used to ship Alter? Don't let the title scare you, this isn't a technical navmesh talk, in fact you might find it the most interesting if you've never used navmesh before! schedule.gdconf.com/session/apex... #GDC2025

Thursday 3/20 2:30pm I’ll be speaking at @officialgdc.bsky.social in SF! My talk is called “Comedy & Games: The How’s, Why’s and Huhs?” and if you don’t like that, there will also be funny animal gifs. #gdc2025 #gamewriting #apexlegends #gamedev #narrativewriting #comedywriting

the problem with gen AI characters just from purely a game design & player experience standpoint is that the characters are unmemorable and boring, there's no way to feel clever when talking to them, and even if you roleplay when talking to them they won't remember or react to that meaningfully

GDC? oh yeah i’m G - Going to GDC D - Despite the fact that the US government hates non-cis folks and apparently my country? C - Can we please move GDC somewhere else.

Multiple xAI employees say Grok is now being trained to be right-leaning and to fight 'woke' "The general idea seems to be that we're training the MAGA version of ChatGPT"

fun fact: if you draw fanart for a game within the first week of any sort of major PR event for it (announcement, demo, release etc) there is a 99% chance the entire dev team on the game knows who you are because they are doing nothing but reposting fanart in slack

This is why I mask at events too. If you see me indoors I'm wearing a mask. It does help normalize it for others, and helps immunocompromised folks know they're not alone in taking precautions

It was really fun to work on this finisher for Alter last season ~

OpenAI right now

Happy “Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder” Day to all those who celebrate.

⭐ GAMES INDUSTRY LABELER INSTRUCTIONS v2 ⭐ The automated labeler is working! Let's walk through the new process of getting a label! 🧵 #GameDev

Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more