One hell of a chart... Via @superjoost.bsky.social superjoost.substack.com/p/ubisoft-an...

Bravo! 👏👏 Greg Jericho appraises the emperor's new clothes www.deepcutnews.com/p/albaneses-...

🥳 Historic sector wins for NTEU members!  Two big results from bargaining at Western Sydney University and the University of Newcastle, delivering real change from landmark AI protections to 17% superannuation for casuals.   This didn’t happen by accident. Find out more: betterworkplaces.nteu.au

UPDATE: More 'Save Our Devs' rallies have been announced—including one at Obsidian Entertainment and another at Microsoft's campus in Redmond—in support of laid off Xbox workers.

i'd like to present my argument against digital-only

If anyone's wondering, if you include the latest Microsoft layoffs, Game Industry Layoffs has now tracked approx. 46,700 known layoffs since 2022 publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/A...

Absolutely love these photos of early game developers just chilling in their homes/offices.

After 4+ years spent tinkering, Bravest Coconut is available on Steam. It's a Point & Click Adventure with no pointing and clicking, taking the quirky puzzles from games like Monkey Island and mixing with the exploration and action of retro Zeldas: s.team/a/2913190 #Godot #PixelArt #IndieGame

“Succeed” is an interesting one here. A perfect example that videogame companies don’t exist to make videogames, they exist to make capital. That is the primary goal of which Carmack is actually talking about ‘succeeding’ at here.

Been offline all week. Sure hope I didn’t miss any game industry news.

Today launches the game I've been working on: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced It's been an incredible experience working with such hardworking,talented & amazing people and we are very glad that players are loving it Unfortunately my whole team is being laid off so we can't fully celebrate it

Here's my own 'What could the future of the videogame industry possibly look like?' speculative take (Marx and Engels, The German Ideology (1846), p. 272)

Circa 1990-2005 will always remain the undefeated golden era of videogames because it will also remain the only era from which people can still access and play videogames more than ten years later.

Photos you can taste.

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

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.

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

My favourite AFL story (from before I followed the sport, and I grew up in Queensland so didn't hear about it at the time) is that in 2010 the Grand Final ended in a tie and there was no other way to resolve it so they had to all come back the next weekend and try again.

The game of soccer has proved insufficient to resolve a game of soccer. We will play a different game instead.

There still isn’t a good reason for the PS5 to exist

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.

At this point it's really the Albanese-era job-ready scheme.

PlayStation is deleting 551 purchased movies from its customers' accounts, reminding us nothing digital is ever truly ours https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013

Watched a bit of the world cup and felt really validated in my choice to get really into AFL

damn. valve is at the mercy of industry players that dwarf them to such an extent they just have to deal with whatever they're being charged for access to the market? that sounds rough. can't imagine what that's like kotaku.com/valve-says-t...

The Queensland Games Festival is on this Saturday the 27th at the Brisbane Powerhouse. Come along and be the first in the world to play lots of cool indie games!! www.queenslandgamesfestival.com

Having a fight with a dickhead in your own mentions, waiting for them to post the response that will look the funniest if posted by @blockedforthispost.bsky.social

Centre-Left parties the world over are trying to do badly what the Right parties are already doing very well. No one can figure out why this is unpopular with everyone.

he was only interested in winning an election, not running a country, its not that complicated!

There's a sale on at Booktopia that includes my & Kat's book at 90% off, so if you are in Australia and want to get Sex and Social Media for FOUR Australian dollarydoos, the time is now www.booktopia.com.au/societynow-e...

Apparently the quote in the now deleted original post is fake fyi. My quote implying what we should do to billionaires remains correct

"Sometimes you have to prioritise the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down" sounds like a good plan for what society should do with its billionaires

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

I'm happy to announce that I'm working on a prototype for 'The Ropeway' with funding from Screen Queensland! My wonderful wife Mei-Li is producing and the excellent Launchable Socks will be working on sound design and music. Below is a quick demonstration of the pulley and constraint mechanic.

It's interesting watching Hanson go explicitly anti-worker even as her right-wing populism relies on everyone feeling like they are in struggle town financially. If she's able to get away with these contradictory positions then that's a real inditement on the left in this country imo.

It's cool that the two main political positions in Australia at present are "Abolish parental leave" and "Sorry we said we would tax capital gains we're trying to undo it."

This is an undeniably a correct statement but the more accurate and appropriate way to frame this is that *Deakin workers* saved their own jobs by joining together *as* their NTEU union.

Deakin University has called off its disastrous restructure, after their vice-chancellor unexpectedly resigned in the middle of it. It’s a huge win for staff, obviously, but how bad is governance in Australian higher education? Absolute clown show

What if a piece of fabric was a bomb. What if a shark was swimming in the catered soup? What if David speers fired a gun instead of a question

If you like thinky puzzle games but also like a little bit of action then you should check out Bravest Coconut. 🐱 s.team/a/2913190 #WishlistWednesday #IndieGames #PixelArt #Godot

Posted at 1:56pm, got an email at 3:03pm from Jane Norman cancelling my membership of the press gallery

Alternative book title MIT Press wouldn't let me use

Any of you happen to have the pdfs of GDC's State of the Industry reports 2013-2018?

Screenshot to not pile on OP but the ‘can make games faster’ argument holds no weight for genAI use in cultural production. A game made in a week has long been able to be more commercially successful than a game made in a year. GenAI didn’t create that situation.