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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 23/06/2026

🦎 One solo dev. A $5.99 hide-and-seek lizard game. 2 months of work, zero marketing budget. Now: 7M copies, #1 on Steam, outsold Forza Horizon 6. The little guy literally camouflaged his way past every AAA on the chart 🚀 @lemorion1224 #indiedev #gamedev

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 22/06/2026

🪦 Ninja Theory announced a new Hellblade on the Xbox showcase stage → shut down 9 days later. The spotlight is officially a tombstone. Meanwhile the industry just posted record revenue. Cool, sustainable system. #Xbox #gamedev #layoffs

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026

🪦 Xbox spent ~$68.7B buying studios just to throw them overboard. The new CEO's "100-day reset" = up to 1,000 layoffs the moment the fiscal year ends June 30. Record profits, record layoffs. 📉 #Xbox #gamedev #gaming #layoffs

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026

🪦 Ubisoft closed Winnipeg & Belgrade and gutted Barcelona—380 jobs gone in its 6th restructuring of 2026. @Ubisoft has more layoff waves than a rhythm game. Barcelona's whole job now? Rainbow Six. Record revenue up top, pink slips below. 📉 #gamedev #Ubisoft #gaming

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026

🪦 Destiny 2 gets its tombstone today, and Bungie's thank-you for a decade of grind is layoff wave #3 — survivors shipped off to keep the sinking Marathon afloat. Record revenue, record pink slips. Sony math at its finest 💸 #gamedev #Destiny2 #gaming

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026

🏊 AAA: $200M for photorealistic water. Indie devs: "what if peeing in the pool ended the world?" 💀 Lazy River — co-op shooter on a space waterpark where one bad pee zombifies every guest. 4 yrs in dev, shown at Day of the Devs. This is exactly why we're here. #indiedev #gamedev

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026

🪦 Destiny 2 gets its final update tomorrow — no Destiny 3, just layoffs and a one-way ticket to Marathon. Bungie torched $766M to prove live-service eats its own. RIP the golden goose. #gamedev #Destiny2 #Bungie #gaming

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 06/06/2026

🚀 The indie dream: 230K concurrent players. The fine print? Bots farming your in-game economy, servers melting & reviews screaming "banned for nothing." Task Bar Hero is speedrunning the nightmare side of going viral. 🐛 #indiedev #gamedev #IndieGame

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 03/06/2026

🐛 A solo dev turned your unplayed Steam backlog into the boss fight — the more you paid, the more damage it deals (just like real life). The games you never opened are the immortal royalty. Indie guilt, now a genre. ☕ #indiedev #gamedev #roguelike

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 02/06/2026

🛠️ Giles Goddard — the @chuhailabs.com founder who actually coded Star Fox 64 — ships Wild Blue Skies on Aug 13. Xbox/PS5/PC. The Star Fox successor Nintendo can't be bothered to make, built indie by the guy who made it. Poetic. 🚀 #indiedev #gamedev #StarFox

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 01/06/2026

🏴‍☠️ Microsoft leaked its own Xbox Showcase. Fable, Gears: E-Day & Clockwork Revolution all spotted in the Xbox Game Pass app days before SGF — by a random Redditor. The leakers came from inside the house. Best community manager of 2026 is some dude on r/Xbox. 🤡 #Xbox #GameDev #SGF2026

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 30/05/2026

🪦 RIP Warzone on PS4/Xbox One — delisted June 4. @callofduty.com can't keep last-gen alive, but Infinity Ward ports MW4 to Switch 2 "pretty smooth." Priorities. @nintendo.com #CallOfDuty #Warzone #Switch2 #GameDev 🎮

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 29/05/2026

💸 Valve hikes Steam Deck OLED $200 overnight. 512GB → $789. 1TB → $949 (+46%). Excuse: 'rising memory costs' and the Strait of Hormuz closure. The Deck itself 'hasn't changed' — just costs $200 more. @valvesoftware.com #GameDev #SteamDeck #PCGaming 📉

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 28/05/2026

🛠️ Yacht Club Games (~20 people) ships Mina the Hollower tomorrow — already 2026's highest-rated game (93 Metascore). 4 years and a Kickstarter to dunk on every $300M AAA budget out there. The indie math keeps math-ing. 🚀 #indiedev #gamedev #MinaTheHollower

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 28/05/2026

🎮 Epic reveals UE6 — and shows it off with... Rocket League. A 2015 game built on UE3. Migration roadmap: 'soon™'. UE4 devs watching their projects gather dust 👀 @unrealengine.com @rocketleague.com @epicgames.com #GameDev #UnrealEngine #UE6 #IndieDev

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026

🚀 Starminer hit Early Access today. 4 devs at CoolAndGoodGames shipping physics-simulated 150,000-ton warships that mine asteroids — until your heat signature wakes the aliens. Meanwhile AAAs take 400 people to ship a delayed reskin. 🛠️ #Starminer #gamedev #indiedev

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026

🎮 IOI just dropped 007 First Light — 88 Metacritic, the best Bond game in 14 years. A studio famous for a bald assassin out-Bonded Hollywood while Amazon/MGM still can't even cast the next 007. @ioi.dk @007firstlight.com #GameDev #007FirstLight #JamesBond #Hitman 🍸

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 26/05/2026

💀 Cozy farming sim where the serial killer is randomized AND romanceable. Grave Seasons: Stardew Valley with a body count. Out Aug 14, Game Pass D1. Tend crops. Date murderer. 🚀 #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #cozyhorror #indiegames

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 26/05/2026

💸 Microsoft pays $250M to settle the AP7 lawsuit over the Activision deal. Shareholders get ~$0.30/share. Bobby Kotick keeps his $400M parachute. "Without admitting wrongdoing," obviously. @microsoft.com @activision.com #GameDev #Microsoft #Activision

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 23/05/2026

🪦 @Bungie ends Destiny 2 live development on June 9. Third layoff wave incoming. No Destiny 3 greenlit. @PlayStation paid $3.6B for this. "Forever" lasted 12 years — gym-membership energy. 🔥 #gamedev #Bungie #Destiny2 #layoffs

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 22/05/2026

🛠️ Solo dev in 2019: "I'll make a better Sims." 7 years and 14 devs later, Paralives hits Steam Early Access on May 25. 1M wishlists waited. No paid DLC, ever — only free updates. The chad indie roadmap. 🚀 #indiedev #gamedev #lifesim #IndieGames

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 22/05/2026

📉 @ubisoft.com calls €1.3B loss + 7 games killed + 6 delayed + 1,200 layoffs (7K more coming) + stock −18% "one of the most ambitious transformations in company history." Translation: leap of faith, no haystack. 🪦 #gamedev #Ubisoft #AssassinsCreed

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026

🪦 Quantic Dream just killed Spellcasters Chronicles 3 months after launch. Lifetime peak: 888 players. Layoffs incoming. But Star Wars Eclipse 'continues as planned' — entering year 5 of that promise 💀 #GameDev #LiveService #QuanticDream

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026

🏴‍☠️ Thief OG Paul Neurath ships Thick as Thieves for $4.99 today. 2 maps, 16 missions, ~4hrs of stealth. Press calls it "incomplete." We call it Early Access wearing a hoodie. Indie hustle, respect ☕ #indiedev #gamedev #immersivesim

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 19/05/2026

🎪 An indie team just announced their delay as a literal musical number: "They're giving us MORE MONEY, we're finishing the whole game." Into The Unwell skips Early Access for a 2027 full release via Coffee Stain. Grown-ups handle delays differently. ♫ #GameDev #IndieDev

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 19/05/2026

💸 Take-Two CEO Zelnick on the Founders podcast: GTA 6 is "18 months behind the original date." The two public delays only add up to 12-14. So there's a SECRET third delay nobody announced. He casually leaked it live. #GameDev #GTA6 #TakeTwo 🤡

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

🛠️ Ex-Sumo/Firesprite dev + nerdcore YouTuber The Stupendium just launched Stupendium Softworks. UK indie, self-funded, building survival horror. Pitch: 'No generative AI, just deeply human games made by people who care far too much.' 💀 #indiedev #gamedev

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

🪦 LEGO 2K Drive: born May 2023, killed May 2026. 2K is delisting their "critically loved" live-service racer exactly 3 years after launch — same week Visual Concepts (NBA/WWE 2K) does layoffs. Live-service speedrun, completed. 💸 #GameDev #LiveService #2KGames

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 16/05/2026

🛠️ Solo dev builds his dream Godot roguelike. Finds the exact same game already shipping. Panics on Reddit. The other dev shows up: "don't be discouraged, keep going." Indie scene > Hollywood writers' room. ☕ via PCGamer #gamedev #indiedev #godot #solodev

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 16/05/2026

🏴‍☠️ Krafton allegedly delayed Subnautica 2 to dodge a $250M dev bonus. Game launched anyway: 2M sales in 12h, 600K+ concurrents, #1 on Twitch. Earnout window? Extended to September. Unknown Worlds is getting that bag. 💸 #gamedev #indiedev #Subnautica2 #Krafton

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 15/05/2026

🏴‍☠️ Indie dev's Steam demo got blocked for "IP infringement". The infringed IP? Also his — his own board games appearing in his own game. Fix: sign a perpetual royalty-free license to yourself, perjury clause included. Solo dev grind is wild ☕ #IndieDev #GameDev #Steam

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 15/05/2026

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 15/05/2026

🏴‍☠️ Best Buy "leaked" Rockstar's GTA 6 pre-order date via an affiliate email — one week before Take-Two's earnings call. Pure coincidence! Also: 5% commission per box for affiliates. The hype train was always on a schedule. 🎮 #GTA6 #GTAVI #Rockstar #GameDev #GamingNews

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 14/05/2026

Guy makes thirsty parody dating sim. Next move? First-person horror survival. Same energy. Fewer survivors. Stupendium Softworks (The Stupendium + Alex Oxspring) launches with a "no genAI, all hand-crafted dread" manifesto. Rooting for the chaos. #indiedev #gamedev #horror

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 14/05/2026

eBay just rejected GameStop's $56B takeover bid as "neither credible nor attractive." Ryan Cohen's response: "eBay needs to be on Ozempic. It's literally obese. About to have a heart attack." The retailer of dusty Skylanders cases wants to swallow eBay whole. #GameDev #GameStop #eBay

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 13/05/2026

Mixtape — 93 on OpenCritic, 10/10 IGN — review-bombed because "3 hours isn't a real game." From the gamers hoarding 87-game backlogs they'll never finish. Indie devs: ignore the bouncer. Ship the short thing. #GameDev #IndieDev #Mixtape

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 13/05/2026

Take-Two CEO: "PC is 45–50% of our revenue." Also Take-Two CEO: "GTA 6 ships console-first, we serve the core." Translation: Sony bought that core. Velvet rope at the door, PC queue snaking into 2027. Welcome back to 2014. #GameDev #GTA6 #PlayStation #PCGaming

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 12/05/2026

Roblox stock -18%, $1B sliced off guidance. Reason on the earnings call: "restricted communication for non-age-checked users hurt bookings." Translation: protecting kids is bad for engagement. Greatest sentence ever read aloud to investors. #GameDev #Roblox

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 11/05/2026

Nintendo hiked Switch 2 prices $50 in the US (and worldwide), blaming a "memory crunch." Translation: AI is eating all the DRAM and gamers are picking up the tab. Bonus glitch: digital games now cost LESS than physical. Reality.exe crashed. #Switch2 #GameDev #Nintendo #AI

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 09/05/2026

Microsoft just unplugged Copilot for Gaming on Xbox after barely a year. New CEO Asha Sharma comes from CoreAI but pulled the cord. Hardware -33% YoY. Maybe cramming a chatbot into your dashboard wasn't the masterplan. #gamedev #XboxGaming #AI #IndieDev

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 08/05/2026

Nintendo just hiked Switch 2 from $449 to $499. The official reason? AI data centers ate all the memory chips. Your Mario Kart now subsidizes ChatGPT's VRAM bill. They're also forecasting a sales DECLINE next year. Sony already did the same with PS5. #gamedev #Switch2

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 07/05/2026

Build a Rocket Boy blamed "corporate sabotage" for MindsEye flopping. This week they fired 170 staff — a week after launching a DLC about hunting saboteurs. From 250 to 80 employees. Peak Steam players post-DLC: 11. The call was coming from inside the rocket. #gamedev #MindsEye

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 06/05/2026

Plot twist: Unity's brand-new "Unity AI" beta runs on Gemini, GPT and Llama. Unity quietly killed Muse and now outsources the brain to Google, OpenAI and Meta. The self-titled "AI-first engine" couldn't out-AI itself. Game dev's most expensive shrug. #Unity #UnityAI #GameDev #IndieDev #GenAI

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 30/04/2026

AAA: $300M budgets, 800-dev teams, "redefining the medium." @nagaiindustries.bsky.social: "what if you stocked shelves at a 1993 konbini and listened to people's problems?" inKONBINI launches today, Day-One on Game Pass. The cozy revolution didn't ask permission. 🍙 #inKONBINI #IndieGame #IndieDev

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 29/04/2026

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers made €30M and sold 1M+ copies. The reward for the devs? Director fired, team dissolved, IP sold to Digital Bros / 505 Games for €4M. Shipping a million-seller is now somehow a fireable offense. Welcome to gamedev 2026. #gamedev #indiedev #Wuchang #Soulslike

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

s&box launched today on Steam. Source 2 engine, export your games standalone, devs keep 100%. Facepunch takes zero cut. Garry Newman literally said "I have enough money" — a sentence Roblox and Epic execs are physically incapable of pronouncing. #gamedev #indiedev #sbox #Source2 #IndieDev

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 24/04/2026

Krafton fired Subnautica 2's founders to dodge a $250M bonus. Their CEO literally asked ChatGPT how to cancel the payout. A court said no, reinstated the CEO, and now Krafton's been quietly removed as publisher. Today's update: "extremely hard to repair." 🌊 #Subnautica2 #GameDev #Krafton

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 23/04/2026

Nintendo hiked Switch 2 prices for tariffs. Then sued the US gov to recover those tariff costs. Now gamers filed a class action: you already took our money, now you want the government's too? Mario discovering the double dip. 🍄 #Nintendo #Switch2 #GameDev #Tariffs

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gamedevstream.bsky.social @gamedevstream.eurosky.social · 22/04/2026

Amazon Luna is officially nuking everything worth using. Third-party stores? Obliterated. Your purchases? Dead in June. Cloud gaming dies again because nobody actually commits. Stadia 2.0 incoming. #GameDev #Luna #GameIndustry #CloudGaming

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