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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

oh it's OVER over now

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

holy shit! KEEP SHITPOSTING. this is incredible

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sure, yeah I guess. But also this is like saying Sauron 2 comes to wreak havoc on Sam’s life right after Frodo sets sail for the Grey Havens. What a waste.

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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sweet Shop sweetens the pot, launching to the public: Sweet Shop, the newest digital comics marketplace, launches to the public today with new additions to its publisher line up including Kodansha, Titan, Dynamite, and Abrams Comics Arts.

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Sweet Shop sweetens the pot, launching to the public

Sweet Shop, the newest digital comics marketplace, launches to the public today with new additions to its publisher line up including Kodansha, Titan, Dynamite, and Abrams Comics Arts.

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Time to destroy another thing we all like using I guess.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

in a week that saw microsoft give activision the reins to halo and bungie pivot back to destiny, one thing has become abundantly clear: the people in charge do not have a long-term, overriding plan. they’re just reacting. the result, when times are bad, is chaos

"Things are still very chaotic," a current id Software employee who was granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly told Aftermath. "While there has been an attempt to communicate to the studios, it is still entirely in bullshit corporate speak. I still don't believe they have a clear vision for the future. The only concrete thing they have communicated is they want higher profits, and they want it now. Aggressive goals are being set that would have been unrealistic even before the layoffs. ... To say the workers within Xbox have a dim view of the future is putting it mildly. We keep thinking morale can't sink lower but the obvious incompetence of Xbox management somehow keeps driving it down worse."
This mirrors shifts in strategy that have come to dominate the still-new Sharma era, including others outlined Tuesday. Rare is joining Activision, Turn 10 and Playground are fusing, and—most gallingly, considering their history—Obsidian is being folded into Bethesda to work on Fallout instead of its own original series. As with the previous round of layoffs, details betray Microsoft's haphazard approach: A Halo developer got promoted and laid off in the same week. Gears of War: E-Day's story director is out of a job days after celebrating that the game had gone gold. Hellblade developer Ninja Theory, now without a buyer after a brief glimmer of hope, is once again on the chopping block.
All of this betrays a simplistic mindset that does not accurately reflect the reality of game development: People are disposable, studios are interchangeable, and series can be traded like sports teams. Nothing matters more than franchises and their money-printing prowess. Unless, evidently, you are Hideo Kojima, in which case Microsoft suddenly has money to burn.

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Idk man, back to back days of the film and games industry in free fall sure makes it hard to get anything done.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This isn’t a dig at anyone specifically, but it is truly exhausting living in a social media age where any piece of media that is released is dissected on a microscopic level before it’s even 10am. Reviews, metastatic scores, video essays, the 10 things wrong with “Insert Title”, etc.

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Truly Sony is in for a beatdown the likes of which they haven’t experienced since the PS3 era. The level of damage they have done to their brand over the last year borderlines on catastrophic. They have lost the plot and have clearly forgotten that the fall from the top is easy and long.

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Procreate confirms it has NO plans to add generative AI features to its apps. The company continues to stand firmly against integrating generative AI into its creative tools.

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#LBX2026 We are excited to welcome you to “The Making of #jentrychauvstheunderworld “ Panel! Join Echo Wu and myself as we sit down with panel moderator Nick Manfredi to discuss creating, pitching, and ultimately making the show a reality. Stay tuned for info on the Panel Date as we get closer!

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is inhumane and unacceptable. And how were these workers thanked for enduring these conditions? Many were laid off. This is why we're organizing. A better industry is both possible and must come to pass if our artform and dignity are to survive.

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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One of the great animation voices of a generation, he voiced Optimus Prime for decades, amongst many other beloved characters. Rest In Peace.

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Final #BloodGutsandTears post for now! Thanks for supporting all the art I’ve shared from my time developing this project! BGT helped me grow a ton and I was able to find my voice while working on it. Thanks for tagging along! #manga #comics #characterdesign #visualdevelopment

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Devour🌱 @devoureroftime.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gamescom AI Slop Thread. Every game from the Gamescom Opening Ceremonies that was actually AI Slop so you don't have to care about it.

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Los Angeles’ film industry is already in crisis. The Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger would deepen it, costing an estimated 4,500 film and television jobs, more than 10,000 jobs regionwide, and billions of dollars in economic activity, according to a new County report.

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Paramount–Warner Bros. merger could eliminate around 4,500 film and television jobs in Los Angeles over three years, according to a new county report. • LA production has already lost 52,000 jobs since 2022 • The economic ripple effect could put 10,360 jobs at risk overall

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The final character reveal from my time developing #BloodGutsandTears is the main character - Erin Blood! #manga #comics #visualdevelopment #characterdesign

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

lmao it is wild how a CEO can perfectly illustrate why AI placeholders are such a TERRIBLE idea but then not see a need to stop

Expanding on the issue, Désilets said: "Then in the pipeline, there's again an issue. I can ask the Al to give me 75 different variations of one thing, but I cannot have 75 different illustrators come up with a variation in three seconds. This is the world in which we're living, and while we were this small team and building [the game], we put it in. We didn't even realise it was Al any more because we were used to seeing it.

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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Please help us kill this industry we work for."

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Back again with more development work from #bloodgutsandtears This time with one of the main vampire hunters! Feisty and short fuzed - I’ve always really loved characters with eye patches and eye abilities, so this was a fun opportunity to lean into that. Thanks for tuning in again!

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Right on schedule - the trend is officially dead.

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

To celebrate #spidermanbrandnewday I’m posting the last piece of development art I did on #friendlyneighborhoodspiderman This wrapped up my time on a dream project - I’m forever grateful. Happy Spider Man Time for all who celebrate! #marvelstudios #marvel

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Last year, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said releasing movies in theaters was “an outdated idea,” saying people wanted to watch films from home. Fast forward to today, theaters have delivered the biggest weekend in global box office history.

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Another week, another post from my time developing #BloodGutsandTears This time with a look at one of the main vampire hunters. The character was meant to be more of a mentor figure to the main characters - a wise Kakashi-like. Thanks for reading and I appreciate all your support as I share these:)

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Few things bring me the kind of joy seeing Jentry fan art on my timeline does 🥹

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

All respect to the artists getting work amidst these crazy times. Get your bag✊ But what are we green-lighting here? How creatively bankrupt are you that you think making a Christmas Carol prequel is a good idea? Why does this need to come out and bomb to learn this? Seriously.

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

More development work from #BloodGutsandTears This time with a look at how wacky and powerful I was trying to get with the vampires. This was inspired by Evangelion. I was trying to break out of my usual mindset when it comes to demonic looking designs and referencing mecs was very useful.

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hard to overstate how much damage a deal of this size will do to our already crumbling industry. One look over at The Microsoft/Activision $69billion dollar acquisition is enough to know that this will lead to thousands upon thousands of people losing their jobs so that 5 people can cash in big.

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

More development art from#bloodgutsandtears This time with a luck at some early vampire ideas. Wanted to try for something really unsettling and not quite human. This is some of the stuff that really unsettling to me and I thought it be really fun to have that be the tone for the creatures here.

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Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

RIP Sam Neill Damn this one hurts. Grew up on his films and Jurassic Park is still one of my favorite movies of all time. Also just a genuinely nice person by all accounts. RIP legend 💔

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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Sure that will work out easily.

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Old Oak Games | Emmet (he/him) @oldoakgames.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A not so gentle reminder that we are firmly anti-AI. We believe in human creativity. You won't find any Gen AI crap in our games. Artwork from top right: Siman Vlaisavljević, Álvaro Jiménez, Findara McAvinchey, Clara-Marie Morin, Álvaro again, and Wouter Florusse. Human Made logo by Hinokodo

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Another character sheet from my past project in development Blood Guts & Tears. Today’s big bad is the big bad uncle vampire who’s built like angus beef patty. #manga #comic #visualdevelopment #characterdesign #creatorowned

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Microsoft engineered this so that it looked the least bad optically while at the same time still committing a slaughter, all so that Satya Nadella can still dick around with more useless AI horseshit. Fuck him and fuck Microsoft.

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Pretty scary that we’re really feeling/seeing the climate change heat waves in a very stark and undeniable way now. And it’s likely to get worse. The thing we’ve been warned about is happening more and more and more.

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Another character sheet from an old project I was developing! Out of the depths of my hard drive and into the light of social media it goes! Last time I shared a hot vampire daddy with parenting issues - now meet his teen vampire daughter with daddy issues.

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Corporate mergers are the devil. These people are soulless ghouls who are happy to set the world ablaze for a penny. Sincerely fuck you, Xbox.

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Making our way through the Mob Psycho 100 anime and I am completely in love with its vision. Such wonderful loose art and a masterful use of mixed media! What an amazing dose of creativity to witness! 10/10👏👏👏

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Mob Psycho: Mob Vs Koyama Epic Fight

ALT: Mob Psycho: Mob Vs Koyama Epic Fight

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Absolutely unheard-of concept in western game production They'd fire all this talent, release a solemn statement and then pocket those wages

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Kal Athannassov @drkaldrungus.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Christ, these people. Destiny 2 -the game the entire game industry fell over to chase - was not seen as a success and still you pursue this? How can you be this tone-deaf.

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Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

U.S. Democratic Socialists BREAKING: AOC just introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act, which bans the construction of data centers until Congress addresses all impacts of AI on our society and planet. 💪 I support this 💯

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