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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

is the vangers update legit or

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Thomas Welsh - game narrative writer @calmdowntom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

IT'S OUT. It's been a hell of a... 5 years! Really proud of Nivalis Nights. One million wishlists! I hope you love the city of Nivalis and all the weird and interesting people we created for you to meet. Welcome to Nivalis! store.steampowered.com/app/1488490/...

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Nivalis Nights on Steam

Grow your business, manage restaurants and nightclubs, make friends and enemies, buy and decorate apartments, go fishing and maybe even find love in a cyberpunk city that stretches from the ocean to t...

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my fix for this is: xcom should show the numbers you rolled

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Heads-up for fellow CRPG dungeon crawler fans as one to avoid: this one is made by ban-evading neo-nazis.

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

it's on root. it's literally on zulip. it's on stoat (formerly revolt). it's on fluxer with plutonium. dude it's on tuwunel. you can probably find it on mattermost. it's on pumble. you can go to pumble and look at it. log into pumble right now. pumble has it for you. pumble has it for you

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Kyle Tam is Climbing Mt Moriah @percypropa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please support the Indiepocalypse pledge drive! This is money that goes to HUNDREDS of creators who’ve contributed to every single issue of Indiepocalypse! Including me! Wow! That’s WILD!!!

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POLYGON BIRD Games @polygonbird.games · 23/09/2026

Take control of the HALCYON 🗡️ Defeat the RADON Daughters 🦅 Destroy the WORLD-EGG 🥚 BIRDCAGE is out now on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation & XBOX consoles! www.eastasiasoft.com/games/BIRDCAGE

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

imo the new meta for (post-)AAA is to hoard IP and push all the actual development work out to co-dev. employees are expensive, pivot to owning things

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

aw man no what come on ffs

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Apex Mango - WISHLIST 🍎💀 ~FRUITBEARER~ 🍎💀 @apexmangostudio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

FINALLY!!! 😍 Fruitbearer is OUT NOW! Please go give some love and write a review on steam. For small indie devs like us it helps us a lot 😭💖 Our first attempt to make this into a full time career🥹 Hope you enjoy! 🥰💖 store.steampowered.com/app/4300180/... #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #art

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

are they gonna hire back the 400 people they laid off

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𝙑𝙀𝙀𝙏𝙍𝙄 : Blast Processed 🥑 @parametricavocado.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As usual, it's all just artisanal, carefully sorted multiple passes of alpha/additive layers, their opacities smoothly modulated per vertex.

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

nah that's too many gibs. put some back

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

god that's the good stuff. look at that

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I do think we gotta delete "six cultures of play" from the internet though tbh

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

big W for leafo's videogame shop

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I just wrote a paranormal story in the form of a fictional forum thread! A young woman discovers a video captured from inside a recurring dream. Read here: suricrasia.online/unfiction/sp...

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Last year, Rockstar was accused of firing over 30 workers for engaging in trade union activity. The studio said they were let go for leaking confidential information. The tribunal between the two parties begins today. I'll be attending and will do my best to provide updates over the coming weeks.

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 10/09/2026

Today marks the beginning of our trial against Rockstar to hold them accountable for firing workers who were trying to unionise. In order for us to see this through to the end, we need your support. Please donate to and share our fundraiser for the Rockstar 31: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/wWq5Omj...

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Defend union rights: Support the Rockstar 31

Justice for 31 Rockstar employees who formed a union and were fired en masse

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

this is the only good TRPG take we'll ever get on this godforsaken webzone

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Sanditio Bayu | WISHLIST NOL ON STEAM! @sanditiojitok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Playing around with DUMBSAMPLER. DUMBSAMPLER is a simple virtual audio sampler that I built with SLADE3 and Ultimate Doom Builder that runs on UZDoom. No vibe code, just throwing my limited ACS Scripting knowledge and shitty pixel crafting skill to this. #chiptune #8bit #sampler

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"many a brave knight are going to die" like...your staff? your employees and contractors? what are you trying to communicate here

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Amos @westernstyle.live · 06/09/2026

asbestos is the industry standard. it's here to stay so you'd better get used to it

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rachel @nershly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

one reason I don’t like to apply the term Software Engineer to myself (or ppl i like) is because of the frequently embarrassing cultural/political/professional tendencies it links to/emerged from

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

it's important to remember that the people selling (failing to sell) this technology believe that everyone else on earth is a mark, a rube, &c, and will cheerfully and shamelessly lie about it, like so:

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PARTY MAN X @pmx.newnet.city · 05/09/2026

was retrieving the latest sdl release and saw AGENTS and CLAUDE markdown files and kind of went "cmon man" but it felt uncharacteristic so i checked them and they're just explicit instructions that AI submissions are not allowed lol. now that's what i like to see

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

slop unfortunatley

post underneath where the OP talks about upgrading thier chatGPT sub and being in the throes of AI hypnosis

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

cannot fathom why crazy taxi, of all games, needs a diffusion image generator to create placeholder assets or visual reference

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

they've put numbers on the posts

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

okay but this is the funniest thing you can say about this specific game though

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Ben Newbon @bennewbon.itch.io · 04/09/2026

All set up and ready to go at @tabletopscot.bsky.social repping @gameworkers.co.uk Come see me at the IWGB stall i09 if you're in the area and wanna chat about how the union helps tabletop workers :) We've got pins and members' games for sale, taking donations towards the Rockstar Fighting Fund

The Independent Workers of Great Britain union Game Workers' branch table at Tabletop Scotland with a wraparound table banner, flyers, pins and members' zines for sale, taking donations for the Rockstar Fighting Fund

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

some people believe that, as computers are now expensive, the future of videogames lies in streaming services. this overlooks an important limitation, which is that that streaming services also require computers

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Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ah so I've been a bit quiet on here but for the last few months I have been working as a Senior Game Writer at Frontier. On an even better note...we're expanding. We're hiring for a full game writer at Frontier. www.frontier.co.uk/careers/game... It is hybrid/onsite in Cambridge UK.

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Game Writer - Careers

Frontier is an independent video game developer and publisher, crafting immersive gaming experiences with fun gameplay and unparalleled artistic quality. Renown...

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Apex Mango - WISHLIST 🍎💀 ~FRUITBEARER~ 🍎💀 @apexmangostudio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We have a RELEASE DATE for Fruitbearer! 🥳 ✨ 21st September ✨ SAVE THIS DATE! It's coming on Steam 💖 store.steampowered.com/app/4300180/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #steam

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tom, friend of eggbug @lizard.tools · 01/09/2026

i'm so excited for a future where nobody knows how any of their code works anymore because they let claude add one hundred and twenty thousand new lines to a 20 year old project over the course of like 3 weeks

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

sony deploying some honestly very funny equivocation here in order to weaken their own argument for no reason

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 30/08/2026

Most people don’t know this, but when a timer is counting down like ten, nine, eight, seven and so on all of the intervals between the numbers have slightly different durations. In particular the moment between five and four takes the longest. Pay attention next time and you will notice.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

GTA 6 looking awesome, cool merch too gameworkers.square.site/s/order?cs=t...

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

yeah man totally. I also can imagine scenarios

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

the other carveout people always make is "well maybe it's useful for medical stuff like cancer detection", and as someone who works in medical tech: holy shit no lmao it's just as catastrophically bad at that as it is at everything else. what if claude could kill you

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æon @aeon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I often see well-meaning people who aren't software specialists say stuff like "it's self-evident that LLMs are bad for basically everything (except programming, seemingly)" and I'm here to tell you you do not need to add that qualifier

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chirasul @moth.gay · 13/08/2026

"check out this webp" <- you sound like a Damn garbanzo bean "check out this jpg" <- I'm about to See Something worth Looking At

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Workers at Rowan, Rook and Decard have secured the first union recognition agreement in the UK table top games industry! 🙌 iwgb.org.uk/en/post/tabl... Work in the UK games industry? Join our union today!

Graphic showing Voidheart Symphony, a table top game produced by Rowan, Rook and Decard and a caption "Union Recognition! Workers at Rowan, Rook and Decard secure the first tabletop games union recognition agreement in the UK."

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