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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Ubisoft Workers of Montreal Union have launched a petition to "preserve hybrid work", which has reached more than 300 signatures www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-work...

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CTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal @gwu-montreal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today marks the public launch of the Ubisoft Workers of Montreal (UWM) campaign, with a first action: a petition to preserve hybrid work. Every Ubisoft Montreal employee is invited to sign the petition and every supporter encouraged to reach out to their network to encourage them to sign!

Poster from Ubisoft Workers of Montréal on a pole, with a link to a petition, and text reading "we made our mark from a distance - preserve hybrid work"

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Gregorios Kythreotis @eteogreg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s Sable’s 5th Anniversary! I’ve written some reflections on what the game means to me, and to celebrate I’m delighted to announce that @lostincult.co.uk are reprinting the Sable Design Works Find out more here: www.eteogames.com/sable-turns-...

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Sable Turns Five with a Design Works Reprint

Reflecting on the Five-Year Anniversary of Sable, and announcing a reprint of the Sable Design Works art book.

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So with the news of the layoffs at KO_OP, I'm officially looking for work later this fall. I'm an experienced narrative designer that's worked on both sprawling open world stories and intimate cinematic narratives, even netting some award wins and noms. More details on my experience below!

key art for Goodbye Volcano High by KO_OP

key art for Spirit Swap by Soft Not Weak

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Any Canadian retro gamers that could help Aidan with his ailing PVM?

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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Breaking! CWA members at Blizzard Entertainment have voted to ratify historic first union contracts, securing an unprecedented victory for the video game industry. cwa-union.org/news/release...

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Blizzard Entertainment Workers Ratify Historic Video Game Contracts with CWA

Blizzard Entertainment workers represented by CWA voted to ratify historic union contracts with the Microsoft-owned company, securing an unprecedented victory for the video game industry following the...

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 03/09/2026

Takes less than 90 seconds, and it’s the best thing you’ll do today if you’re a Canadian.

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Exactly the kind of thing @debaser1215.bsky.social would put into Petunia's Purgatory

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Looks like @sandwitchdev.bsky.social had an English language update! I might have to go back and play this again. I loved the original but I did switch it to French at times. The story shone through regardless of some writing stumbles. I am curious to see how a new translation tackles it.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Videogame CEOs, consider the exciting opportunities afforded you by shutting the fuck up.

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

People are saying a firefighting game would be incredible...

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

We had to evacuate due to the fire tearing through Summerland. We're all good, but it did make me think about how someone should be able to make a wildfire-fighting game that absolutely whips. Imagine the power fantasy of saving homes and lives with cool equipment!

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Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 02/08/2026

I've been telling people we shouldn't be making video games for years and they just won't listen.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Sharing a KS backing like it's 2016. Check out this person's skits though! They're really funny and he's doing a lot with shoestring effects When your House is Haunted but Rent is Cheap www.kickstarter.com/projects/wem...

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Season 1 - When your House is Haunted but Rent is Cheap

An entire season for the hit series When your House is Haunted but Rent is Cheap. (The expanded Kickstarter)

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

One of those posts that just unlocks a whole chunk of memory. I played the hell out of this, fingers pushing so hard my hands shook as I tried to make it far enough to avoid the next unfair but addicting game over

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Here's a fun little coincidence I noticed: Every Republican Congressmember loudly blaming Canada's forest management policies for this year's unprecedented wildfires (and ignoring climate change) is a massive recipient of fossil fuel funding. Receipts👇

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This game that really cracked my brain open when it came out. I'm so happy Supergiant have been able to keep making great games with incredible worlds. Hope they get 15 more years

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This VN worked for me when others fell flat. Traits instantly having a satisfying payoff is so good. I got to literally be a disaster bi knight! Plus the music and audio is *chef's kiss* Most impressively, the tone is balanced on a razor's edge of cute and grim. Let's goooo @ceruhi.bsky.social !

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Almost all of my console gaming over the last few years has been via *physical* copies from libraries. Losing out on those won't force me to buy a console. It'll just mean I shift completely to PCs 😕

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Ben is Unionized and Writes Stuff @beewubs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

No union employees at Blizzard were impacted by today’s bloodbath—and I sincerely doubt that was because the powers that be think that we’re all vital. Odds are, they wanted easy cuts. Status Quo makes you not easy. The best time to unionize was a year ago. The second best time to unionize is now.

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 28/06/2026

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.

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Introducing Warp Point, a Web 1.0 gaming blog directory built for 2026

It's a webring! And a website!

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This. Five years of my career are on games that don't exist anymore and four years are on games that were never allowed to exist. 😮‍💨

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I was damn lucky to work with the team that made Everhaven. From the rocks to the vfx to every critter—there was so much care put into everything. Nick wonderfully spells out why that matters here.

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Been loving @thelastcaretaker.bsky.social. It's got a robot and a boat, which means I basically have to play it. Its closest analogue is probably Pacific Drive? Scavenge haunting ruins and read harrowing log entries in a flooded Earth store.steampowered.com/app/1783560/...

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The Last Caretaker on Steam

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

You should take advantage of the incredible fumble that is letting Zaire go. Hire this amazing, award-winning writer

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inkle @inkle.co · 10/06/2026

Okay, so this is massive and we're terrified. Partnering with @play.breakthrought1d.org in the fight against diabetes, the ENTIRE inkle catalogue is on Humble Bundle right now for $20 -- including TR-49, all four novels, both Overboard! games, 80 Days, all four parts of Sorcery! ... everything.

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The Complete Inkle Library

Adventure awaits in these beloved classics and new favorite games from Inkle! Get them at the price of your choice and support Breakthrough T1D!

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The Score by C. Thi Nguyen is delightful so far. Totally lighting up my brain to read more about the ideas from Agency as Art (which I am still working on getting ahold of). As someone who has always been obsessed with games but not winning, this is giving me some great terms to discuss that!

A physical copy of The Score by C. Thi Nguyen

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Dragon's Dogma III Dragon's Dogma IV Dragon's Dogma V

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Tim Keenan @misfitsattic.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Duskers is getting a sequel! 10 years later 😅 The Steam post has more info, including the new teaser trailer - featuring the voice of Deonte (our producer). You can even wishlist it on Steam if you're into that sorta thing 😉 steamcommunity.com/games/254320...

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Steam :: Duskers :: Duskers Is Getting A Sequel!

Incredibly excited to say that, after 10 years, we're finally returning to the desolation of space to revisit the universe of Duskers! For starters check out it's shiny new Steam Page (wishlist it!), ...

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Matt Yang - Wishlist The Royal Restoration Society! @debaser1215.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Hey #PitchYaGame folks! Petunia's Purgatory is a creepy-cute idle farming game that lives at the bottom of your screen. Grow twisted crops, sacrifice odd animals, and feed the elder god. Make sure to manage your sanity or the game might invade your desktop! store.steampowered.com/app/4009450/...

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Petunia's Purgatory on Steam

Petunia's Purgatory is a creepy-cute idle farming game that lives at the bottom of your screen. Grow cursed crops, feed the Elder God, and keep Petunia sane before her hallucinations invade your deskt...

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“This game was targeted for harassment because it involved this person, or that person” No. Any game release that achieves any broad level of attention now will attract reactionary commentators and their harassment, because generating hatred is how they make their money. It’ll never be enough.

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 14/05/2026

I’m too drunk to answer this kind of serious question. But if there was a concrete answer to this, nobody would make a bad game! We’re all just winging it. Anybody who tells you otherwise is probably lying.

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Janet Ghoulcia (on Vacation 🇯🇵) @gameonysus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Me rereading my own writing nodding in agreement.

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Lindsay @neomeruru.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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A row of pinned tabs in a browser window, most of them with the icon for Google Spreadsheets with some Docs in there for flavor. The only open, un-pinned tab is a Google search for 'em dash'

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is the second Typebar article I've really enjoyed. The longer form stuff they are doing there feels awesome. www.typebarmagazine.com/fight-run-li... Maybe of interest to @aidanmoher.com (and not just bc the title looks like your book title)

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>Fight >Run >Liberate: How JRPGs Made Me an Anarchist

"To attack and dethrone God is an inherently political act..."

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Raquel de Miranda @rdemiranda.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I genuinely can't wait to share the weird things I'm working on right now, but in the meantime: I have slots open for new projects and audits! 🙏🌟 I'm Raquel de Miranda, a freelance narrative designer with a near-decade of experience in AAA, AA, down to the tiniest of indie projects. ✍️🎮

a photography of the op in a gray blouse, cropped at the waist. She's crossing her arms and looking at the camera

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Another great post from Fred Zeleny, this time on how cutscenes don't even really do what they are meant to do. open.substack.com/pub/fredzed/...

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Bugbears: the Cutscene

Play, don't show

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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 19/04/2026

To celebrate hitting 14,000 followers on Bluesky, I'm... gonna shake my tip jars on Ko-Fi and Paypal below, because work's been slow this month and I've got a house move coming up at the end of April... But I'll be also posting a big thread of cool games with under 100 Steam reviews! LET'S GOOOOOO!

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Dominic Tarason - Games Crit & PR

Professional Profile, Contact Details & Links

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CTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal @gwu-montreal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We're thrilled to host a watch party for @gameworkerscon.bsky.social on May 22-23! 🎉 The event is free and we'll provide free food, drinks, swag, and masks. RSVP here to join us! actionnetwork.org/events/soire...

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GAME WORKERS CONFERENCE

MAY 22-23

9 AM - 4 PM PT • 12 PM - 7 PM ET

gameworkersconference.org

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Zaire @zeestermeester.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I have no words. Other than I am honored and humbled to be nominated alongside such meaningful stories. So proud of the team and the work we did 😭.

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On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Just a reminder that the Kickstarter for On Spec 2026 is close to being fully funded, but time is running out. This anthology could be the start of a new market for Canadian speculative fiction. See our website for links.

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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

All my game dev colleagues should listen to this episode, especially the interview with the always inspiring @writnelson.bsky.social We need his mindset shouted into the ears of every publisher. To quote an earlier interview of his: "Shipping is Surviving"

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

perfectionism is so often seen as a permissive ability to create or drive something towards perfection, but in reality, it's a crippling inability to let go of anything imperfect it's an obsession, it stagnates you, and gets you stuck on things you shouldn't be

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