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 · 19/07/2026The irony that Sony gets this better than Microsoft, despite a much smaller stable of 1st party studios, is just astounding. 000
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 not advocating for this, but it's a lot less bleak than shuttering or selling off storied studios, or killing the engine team at idTech, or any number of other decisions that mean thousands are unemployed and your reputation is permanently ruined. I'm so tired, y'all. 080
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 10/07/2026But a successful streaming service needs a steady influx of new content. Not even necessarily GOOD content. Just look at Netflix - it's content is mostly just "good enough." So, you need a lot of studios and devs working on a wide variety of content to keep people subscribed month-to-month. 160
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Game Pass seemed uniquely positioned to take advantage of that fact. Deep integration with Win 11, brand partnerships and "This is an Xbox," and a huge catalog of games and studios that could live exclusively on Game Pass and in a streaming ecosystem. 120
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 502281882
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
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 24/06/2026The people have spoken. Get over yourself. 000
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. 351553698
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 08/06/2026It's an amazing place. I can't wait to go back, hopefully on vacation next time. If you do visit, I would highly recommend getting a tour with Ali Atwa (@atwalaventure on IG). He was our driver and guide on all our trips, and is such a lovely person! 010
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 👀 31005224
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Depends what your workflow looks like - modular kit? One big unique tube mesh? One option is disabling collision on all your cave geo and just building an invisible shell mesh that’s your collider using retopo tools 021
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. 232182242
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West🦇 Hexavier 🎃 @xavierck.com · 22/09/2025Dear hiring managers, 1639270
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 321895237
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 Dies @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 73148752466
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Any business leader worth their salt would recognize the likely cost of such a battle and factor reduced growth. Not Tim, it seems! Line must go up, money printer goes brrrrrrr. And so a bunch of extremely talented individuals get the axe, while Tim enjoys a net worth of (at least!!!) 7.6 billion. 040
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
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 21/03/2026I haven’t watched the video yet but wouldn’t masking require another buffer? Even if not full res and it’s upscaled, that’s an additional buffer that comes at some cost 000
Reposted by Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX WestDan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @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
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 21/03/2026100%, there are dozens of layers of apathy and incompetence at the managerial level that can allow for billions of dollars to get flushed down the drain, because if there is no accountability and millions of dollars in personal gain on the line, there’s no benefit to actually make something succeed 120
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
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Digging around, Reality Labs was 15k employees, so yeah - it’s very very possible when you pay people a ton of money and will let people spin wheels for a decade with no clear vision 100
Ben Nadler 🔜 PAX West @bennadler.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Avg salary at Meta is around $400k, some roles over $1mil a year. Assume avg at 400k, 5k employees, over 10 years and you’re at 20 billion just on salary. Include hardware, software, R&D, IP deals…it’s certainly possible to spend that much and have nothing to show if you are structurally incompetent 110
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 593555929
