Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I'll be at PAX tomorrow! Any mutuals attending? Would love to meet up. 030
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.static.klipy.comJames Bond (Daniel Craig) & Vesper Lynd (Eva Green)Alt: James Bond (Daniel Craig) & Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). Bond pulling a silenced pistol out of a manila envelope. 030
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Game Pass could've flourished w/ an influx of new content on a low-cost device if MS hadn't gutted it's studios. “Cloud streaming...requires minimal memory, making it an increasingly attractive low-cost thin client device...[when] memory prices are rising.” www.theverge.com/games/963132...theverge.comThe PS6 sure sounds like a handheldDid Sony try to set the agenda on June 5th? 130
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I'm so appalled at the human cost of Microsoft's mishandling of Xbox. But even from a purely business sense - I just don't get it? With next gen consoles likely to cost over 1k USD, that could easily create market pressure to push consumers to cloud streaming and subscriptions - like Game Pass. 170
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestSenator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026"Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million. This year, it's raising the price of an XBOX by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs. Please don't tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down." - Sen Bernie Sanders 502282882
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 04/07/2026reread the Declaration of Independence in advance of the Fourth of July, and the list of all the injuries that the British crown inflicted on the colonists straight up reads like Trump's to-do list www.thenation.com/article/soci... 13612196
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This is how physical media dies and we get funneled into Cloud gaming subscriptions with no real ownership of anything we play. 1142
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestBrandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 19/06/2026Only 4 more days to put your game into the game industry hardship fund! Please add your games (and TTRPGs are okay too) so we can make some money for out of work game devs! Do it over the weekend! itch.io/jam/game-ind...itch.ioGame industry hardship fundA game jam from 2026-06-10 to 2026-06-24 hosted by Necrosoft Games. PREMISE: The game industry has a problem. Too many people are out of work (reports say 33% of the industry lost their jobs in the la... 2247205
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestZaire @zeestermeester.bsky.social · 15/06/2026If anyone is looking to hire a Peabody and BAFTA winning senior writer, I am looking for work. I’ve got six years experience in games. Everything from indie to AAA. I am not married to staying in games. I am hoping to relocate to the Bay Area. I am keeping my ears to the ground. 351557699
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Can finally share some of the photos I took in Morocco during one of our scan trips for Crossfire. One of the most stunningly beautiful places I've ever visited, and filled with the kindest, most welcoming people I've ever met. 1217
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I'm incredibly proud to share what we've been building at TNM. This project has been a huge labor of love, and I'm glad I can finally talk about it. A huge shout out to the Env team. It's been such an honor to build this with you all ❤️ 3327
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West〽️ax krieger wants to port YOUR indie game to switch! @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 05/06/2026"obsession was made on a $1 million budget what a triumph!" time to see what that actually looks like 18830
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestUnited Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 27/04/2026"I just don't think unionizing the games industry will work" Okay so why is it working then 👀 2939215
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestKate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social · 22/05/2026this industry is unbelievably wack 4387
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026Today in things that make me proud to be Mayor: PS 889's Hyper Pigmentation became 2-time Minecraft champs at the City's Annual Video Game Festival. Gaming doesn’t have to be a male-dominated industry. NYC is a top recruiter of gaming jobs & we want the next gen of hires to look more like our city. 242183242
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 15/04/2026We gotta kick Palmer Luckey outta retro gaming I’m sick of seeing him throwing his loser ass government contract money around in my hobby 321894237
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 12/04/2026To the doomers who keep saying Trump will rig the 2026 and 2028 elections: Do not concede in advance 393452794
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestAdam Alexander @atomander.bsky.social · 08/04/2026This is also the single best model I can think of to avoid 5/6/7+ year development cycles too - let a team build internal tools, workflows, pipelines, let them iterate, and repeat. Hiring/firing cycles (on top of the human pain) cause us to rebuild the wheel over and over, and is really inefficient. 0125
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestDebjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I'm speechless 327175
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 06/04/2026vibe coding aside, this is not what's happening? generally Claude is used when *writing* code not when serving requests. I hate this shit but also it does behoove you to know how it works. 2350449
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestC ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Note that the workers who made Beast Breaker ARE getting rev-share on sales of the game on Steam, even though the studio shut down. Why? Because we had a union, and we negotiated for it. 2580257
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 30/03/2026After years away I have returned to writing about video games with a piece for Remap about the less immediately obvious problems with DLSS 5 117444
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX Westwint @dril.bsky.social · 25/03/2026i guess those celebrating soras death didnt get the memo that some of us need daily personalized greetings from james bond—for mental health 73148812466
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 24/03/2026The Epic layoffs are bewildering, unacceptable, but also unsurprising. Tim's desire to pursue costly legal battles against Apple and Google resulted in hundreds of millions in lost rev on mobile that is at least indirectly part of FN's slower growth and part of why 1k people lost their jobs today. 170
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestUnited Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Multiple game studios have recently closed because their titles couldn't compete with established live-service games like Fortnite. Meanwhile, you can also literally work on Fortnite and get laid off and Tim Sweeney remains a billionaire. Something has to change. The time is now. uvw-cwa.org 62323973
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestDan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 21/03/2026The "developer control" is even worse than I thought. There are only three "controls": 1. Intensity, ie alpha blend between the original image and the yassified version 2. Color grading 3. Masking, to exclude elements from the effect altogether That's it! Yassify or die, losers! 77014
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestSam Santala 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇪🇺 @samsantala.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Posted on LinkedIn last night, woke up to several hundred notifications, friends requests, etc. Seems I struck a nerve in the industry by saying I wanted to create my own projects and not be at the sway of execs. I've said for a while it's going to have to be smaller studios and smaller projects. 4444968
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/03/2026Subnautica devs v. Krafton ruling is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Start at the top of page 32 and read until the end of that section on page 37. Krafton CEO was warned by their legal personnel to not follow ChatGPT into what is likely Some Of The Dumbest Legal Shit Ever, CEO believed the plagiarism bot.courts.delaware.gov 593559929
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestAmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 12/03/2026GDC's 2026 IGF winner calls out U.S. cruelty at home and abroad 102796826
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestJake Simpson @justjakesimpson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I'd like to announce I have a new(ish) Podcast! It's called GameDev Unsung Heroes, and it's basically interviewing all the names in games you don't know about what they do, their career path, a few stories along the way. All free. Here's the link gamedevunsungheroes.com I could use re-posting :)gamedevunsungheroes.comGamedev Unsung Heroes 49155
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestLuke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 09/03/2026"spanish bioshock but with catholic statues and your gun shoots your own blood" 1066799
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestDREW WISE @drewwise.bsky.social · 07/03/2026🩷 ɪᴛ'ꜱ ꜱᴜᴘᴇʀ ᴇꜰꜰᴇᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ! 🩷 71178544909
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I love how tonally inconsistent Resident Evil 9 is. It doesn’t try to justify it. You just have to accept and love it for what it is. 030
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestDoc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 05/03/2026So ARC Raiders is actual spyware: timothymeadows.com/arc-raiders-...timothymeadows.comArc Raiders - Discord SDK Data ExposureSummary During gameplay of Arc Raiders, private Discord Direct Message (DM) conversations between two users were found being written in plaintext to a local game log file. Additionally, a full Discord... 14971540
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 03/03/2026AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright. (Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...) 209143766009
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestAsh Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Anyway all of this is endemic of the mode through which we monetize video game development. It's shifted to offloading risk from the wealthy publisher that can afford it (tencent) to the poorer developer that cannot (wildlight) we don't have to make games like that aftermath.site/indie-game-p...aftermath.siteMeet The Unconventional Publishers Trying To Unfuck The Games IndustryDevelopers turned publishers like Innersloth and Pocketpair are leveraging their success to help other indie games thrive. 216347
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestMythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again. 47204838706
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestLuz Lavorre @luzlavorre.bsky.social · 19/02/2026PSA for Discord's new age verification! If you get hit by it and refuse to give them any ID or face scans as you should, here's a way to just... bypass it. Go to Settings - Family Centre and then just enter a date of birth that's 18+ It's really that simple. Give them nothing. 5261733748
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 21/02/2026Again, I cannot emphasize enough: do not go to the US even if you're privileged enough to have never been scared or worried of a border crossing in you're life. Do not go ESPECIALLY for something as optional & outrageously expensive as GDC. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeksKaren Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i... 51492666
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestEka | Dosa Divas @ekanaut.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Reminder to other indie dev teams especially new teams. Most of us are happy to share advice and give feedback on publisher/funding/platform deals and terms. There are some shady predatory biz weasels that will take advantage of you as soon as your game starts to pop off. Please reach out. 4601140
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestCinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 09/02/2026“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?” www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...hollywoodreporter.comGore Verbinski Sounds Off on AI as He Launches ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ filmmaker is back after nearly a decade, and is ready to skewer how technology has taken over our lives (even more) in that time: “Why is AI helping me write a song or t... 4728241
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestShayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 05/02/2026Working with a union can also be extremely fulfilling and also the people are cool as hell. uvw-cwa.org UVW is an organization where the members ARE the organization. There’s no MBA at the top who has never made a game in their life.uvw-cwa.orgUVW-CWAUnited Videogame Workers, a game industry-wide union for North America! 194
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX Westsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 03/02/2026ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...theverge.comICE is afraid of children protesting“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.” 9648732044
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestLeena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 02/02/2026people make mistakes every day, blondes, it’s our time to shine (while pretending to be confused all the time) www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184gutenberg.orgSimple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic ServicesFree kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers. 06928
