iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kept you waiting, huh? 🕙 The countdown is over and #UKSGBlue26 has begun! For the next TWO days, we will be going fast, out of bounds and rolling around as we speedrun the games we love, all to raise money for @Crisis-uk.bsky.social 💙 Join the celebration of speed: twitch.tv/uksgmarathon

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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Archie Yates @archieyates.co.uk · 24/09/2026

I think I need to have words with my friends.

Screenshot from Backloggd's "popular with friends" summary including the games Mega Man 6, Rollercoaster World, Stuart Little 2, Big Walk, and the Super Mario Galaxy Switch collection

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Mark | Making a Balloon Game @lithiumproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

very cool how you need to announce your game early enough to build up wishlists and also not till it launches so it isn't ripped wholesale into a vibe-code piece of slop

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Since a dev shared his game concept last month, Steam has been flooded with vibe-coded slop clones. This is what "democratising creativity" actually looks like. Even with AI, your ideas are worthless as long as they can be plagiarised at scale. Gen AI was designed for plagiarism, NOT creativity.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 22/09/2026

Nothing will ever be enough for these people.

Microsoft gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2026 was $60.482B, a 15.36% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase from 2025.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2025 was $193.893B, a 13.38% increase from 2024.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2024 was $171.008B, a 17.09% increase from 2023.

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Jaime Cross @speedyjx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Feel this could have been timed a bit further out from "we've signed Kojima's new game. The one Sony said was running into budget issues. The one that Kojima's said they've not decided on an engine for (?!) despite scanning all their actors."

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IggyMaid @iggymaid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

so why the fuck are you still playing Fortnite?

a collage of news articles about fortnite including their use of AI imagery, an AI voiced darth vader saying slurs, a harry potter & cybertruck collaboration, rounds of layoffs, months of crunch, the CEO's support of AI, their loss of an FTC lawsuit resulting in them refunding over $72 million to players who were tricked into purchasing content, etc.

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 16/09/2026

We optimized draw calls by 99% (lol) in Hidden Folks 2 by writing some tools to find all textures used in a level, generate a level-specific atlas, and replace individual texture references with atlas textures. Thread below 🧵👇🏼 #godotengine

Two side-by-side screenshots showing before and after we applied a texture atlas optimization to our game Hidden Folks two, the before showing 13318 draw calls and the after showing 113 draw calls

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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 15/09/2026

This is why it's always cool to look around the net for people who intentionally go out of their way to re-scan a 35mm film reel.

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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 11/09/2026

I need to interview someone who knows a ton about game optimization—esp. if they have AAA experience! I’m making a video about why it’s impractical to wait until the game is finished to start making trailers (especially for AAA). This is one angle I want to explain it from. Reposts appreciated! 🙏

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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 10/09/2026

DLSS 5 is just a lighting pass and not an ai hallucin--

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 10/09/2026

If you care about the workers, you can help by donating to their fund! bsky.app/profile/game...

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 10/09/2026

Closing out the rally, @nershly.bsky.social beautifully speaks about her experience being fired by Rockstar and how they try to use fear.

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 10/09/2026

You want to know why your thing sucks now? There's a 50/50 chance it is secretly a web browser and site for no good reason instead of a real computer program. I don't know why we've turned many things that should not be web dev into web dev, but here we are.

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Hella Hannah 🌟 [Comms Open!] @hellahannah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3

A digital sketch of a Przewalski’s horse mare and foal trotting on a blank background. The text beneath them reads “restoring the species with mama”

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the big AI danger is not companies suddenly inventing skynet - that's marketing rubbish, musk promising mars colonies by 2030 type stuff. the danger is companies claiming to have invented skynet and then putting what they actually have, a chatbot, in charge of stuff that's important

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Archie Yates @archieyates.co.uk · 03/09/2026

Really do hope this is just some bollocks PR speak and not a reflection of the dev team's attitude. Games like Far Cry 5 showed what kind of vapid nothingness you can create when you take an inherently political concept and do nothing with it and I'd hate to see this game go that same way.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

he got him. he finally fucking got him

real-life coyote and roadrunner encounter captured in southern california

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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I have never had my excitement for a game dry up as quickly as it did when a ProbablyMonsters dev said that Nekome: Nazi Hunter isn't political. It's a spineless choice - but hey - here is my interview:

butwhytho.net

Don't Worry, Nekome: Nazi Hunter's Isn't Political — According To Its Devs

Can Nazi hunting game where you seek vengeance and burn propaganda not have a political message? Nekome: Nazi Hunter developers seems to think so.

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grant @grantpardee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Tiny Tim, who DESERVED to die,"

Gonzo in Muppet Christmas Carol delivering the line "And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die"

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UKSG Marathon @uksgmarathon.co.uk · 23/08/2026

🚨 WE'RE LIVE 🚨 UKSG is live on Twitch right now with the schedule reveal for UKSG BLUE 2026! Start getting hype in chat! 🔵 twitch.tv/uksgmarathon

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UKSGMarathon - Live on Twitch

UKSG BLUE 2026 Schedule Reveal with @skenmy, @ApacheSmash & @TinyTim78 | Streaming special events.

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Archie Yates @archieyates.co.uk · 22/08/2026

2008 was certainly a year! I wish Dead Space could be here but the categories it would qualify for are all swept by MGS4.

Backloggd 2008 Game of the Year Replay event featuring the following choices:
- Game of the Year, Gameplay, and Narrative: Metal Gear Solid 4
- Art Direction: Valkyria Chronicles
- Soundtrack: Burnout Paradise
- Multiplayer: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

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Backloggd @backloggd.com · 21/08/2026

A little different for this week, what are your 2008 GOTY picks so far? #BackloggdWeekly

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Archie Yates @archieyates.co.uk · 21/08/2026

I feel like there's an odd one out in quality here #LastFourWatched

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 20/08/2026

if a white supremacist says anything you should assume every single word is a lie unless completely independently verified by an entirely unrelated source. if they say it is thursday you should ask an expert on days of the week. this should be the bare minimum standard in this media landscape

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Archie Yates @archieyates.co.uk · 20/08/2026

We need to return to the era when games were apolitical and had NOTHING to say about anything.

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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 20/08/2026

Marty is a well known piece of shit in the game industry that people felt bad for because Bungie did screw him... but honestly, that just made me like Bungie. But to his point... what game, what franchise used to be non-political but is now political? He grew up before games, but for you? What one?

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We'll keep on pointing at this comic by @skutchdraws.bsky.social and @hbomberguy.bsky.social until it's embarrassing for tech bros to call you a luddite for hating AI! More of Failure to Launch in the link bsky.app/profile/iron...

"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" A simpleton looking peasant yells as they smash the wooden machine.

The standard narrative goes that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. (But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed.)

Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight.

And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.

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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 10/07/2026

Everyone gets hired again, and paid more.

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Archie Yates @archieyates.co.uk · 08/07/2026

As I mentioned on Sunday we're back tonight with more Junkster speedruns! Want to double check if that sequence break works in time trial mode and then after that we'll see if we can blast through more levels! www.twitch.tv/reicha7

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Reicha7 - Twitch

Continuing with the Junkster speedrun. Let's hope for more sequence breaks!

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Caio Corraini 🌊 @corra.maremo.to · 27/06/2026

só canetada

A IA acidentalmente me fez acreditar no conceito da alma humana ao me mostrar como é a arte sem ela.

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

every time anyone talks about "co-authoring with claude" I think about the whole thing where they changed the AI personas to male when they wanted to portray them as thinkers and writers rather than assistants.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

this is really funny research from a microsoft ai guy who is basically like: the arguments being made to suggest LLMs are sentient can be made regarding literally anything www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sen...

404media.co

If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’

“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."

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CRITTER 🍀🏝️ @fourleafisland.art · 17/06/2026

trying new things together

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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 17/06/2026

I just realized that a big reason Epic is probably pivoting away from Blueprint is all the genAI stuff. It's very difficult for agents to write/edit Blueprint. I don't like it here in the cyberpunk future.

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Nashies! YouTube Cooking Show 😺 @nashiez.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

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Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 15/06/2026

A reminder with #SteamNextFest starting: You SHOULD install the extensions that pop up the AI Disclosure in Steam and ignore any game with it.

A screenshot of the AI Disclosures extension in effect: A pop-up with the AI Generated Content Disclosure from "The Unclosed Case"

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

So… this whole ‘we use gen AI to think through an idea before wasting dev cycles making it’ talking point… Like if I take that on the best possible faith, that the chatbot is used before human concepting… Are you publicly owning up to needing AI to do the job of thinking and scribbling some notes?

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Archie Yates @archieyates.co.uk · 20/05/2026

There is no reason necessary! The showcase events in Forza Horizon have always been some of my favourite parts of the games. Honestly just give me a Horizon game that is only stuff like this!

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 19/05/2026

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

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Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11

Former Microsoft PM says the company's AI push failed, citing Copilot's dismal 3.3% adoption rate and calling for a massive factory reset.

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lucy @lucyamorris.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

i love the powershell script i run every time windows updates that scrubs copilot out of my system (until i have time to set up my linux install)

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Myka @puzzledpolygon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

lol. lmao even.

A screenshot of a reddit post decrying the price increase of GitHub Copilot which switches to usage based billing. The post shows a screenshot of this users current billing, 39$. Next to it, it shows a preview of their billing going forward: 1063$.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I’m crying they’re turning against Expedition 33 now because Anita took a PHOTO WITH THE DEV TEAM

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Anita Sarkeesian posts herself with the Expedition 33 dev team:
"Went to GDC like I do every year. Didn't take many photos like every year, but here's some proof of life."
"2. Met a bunch of Clare Obscur folks..."
Was this game a woke plant all along?
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Jaime Cross @speedyjx.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Remember, if you want to be Scottish you just need to move here.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

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