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Natalie (Tali) Vancouver era ✨ @talidev3d.bsky.social · 15h

I've been trying to think of what to say and I can't, so in the meantime I'll just make sure this gets shared

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave (2026)

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Falcons look like they're a quarterback away from being decent, which is better than I expected tbqh

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I love LA, but we must have one of the world's worst emergency alert systems. Here's the city telling the half million of us "west of 405" to prepare for evacuation when it only applies to a small zone in the hills north of the densely populated areas. 😐

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the OoT character designs are weird, a little unsettling, and perfect

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm not surprised FSU is off to a slow start tonight but it's still disappointing

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

that new game from the makers of Space Station Silicon Valley looks sick

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm doing content creator outreach for Order Automatica now so if you see this and want a key feel free to reply or DM me 👽

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Messhof @messhof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Blood Dungeon is OUT NOW on Steam, Xbox Series, Windows Store, Game Pass, Switch 1+2, and PlayStation 5! RTs very much welcome. I love you. #boneup blooddungeon.com youtu.be/rmbXDEdb6Y0

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Blood Dungeon: Release Trailer

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Eight words that will get me to watch any tv show: From the creators of American Vandal and Players.

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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Reminder: applications for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant are now open!🎉🎉 These grants are intended to support creators who are underinvested in today’s game industry or don't receive much support from existing structures. Read more and apply here: grants.draknek.org

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Alex Navarro @alexnavarro.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you’ve ever wanted to see someone go through like four different stages of I’m Not Owned! in a single ill-advised statement, probably not going to find better than this.

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I got a chance to playtest an early build of this, expected to play an hour or so. Ended up getting very into it and playing through the whole campaign. It's only gotten better since then. If you like autobattlers (or you're new to them like I was) it's definitely worth a look!

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Dril candles milkshake duck they're good dogs, brent And the sleeper pick: Deadspin's "go fuck yourself" in 2013

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Brie @briechindeyerle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Louder for people in the back, "Art has throughput and quality bars. Engineering has velocity, defect rates, build health. QA has coverage and escape rates. Production has burndowns and forecasts... The decision layer has status updates." www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...

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I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow

AI is optimising the cheapest part of production

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

best game with Mario or Sunshine in the name

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Turbo Button | Floor Plan: Slap Out Of It! @turbobuttoninc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We shared some of our reasoning for keeping generative AI out of our creative process with @aftermath.site. Respecting our players' time and attention is at the core of everything we do. If something isn't worth our time to make, it's not worth our players' time to engage with it.

“We don't use generative AI for art, audio, code, or anything else. We've been pretty outspoken about our stance, like with the 200 pins we gave away at GDC this year or our studio Christmas cards where we paid artists to draw what they thought AI-generated cards from us would have looked like.

We have spent time evaluating/experimenting with tools so we feel informed and understand what they can do, but that just gives us more confidence about not using them in any part of our production or preproduction processes for any of our projects. Among our reasons:

We care a ton about respecting our players' time and attention, so if something isn't worth our time to make, it's not worth our players' time to look at.

It's pretty important to have friction with iteration in creative processes. When ideas are cheap to try, they're challenged and vetted less before the implementation. That's going to lead to a lot of games fully realizing some half-baked ideas. We don't want to be the studio that tries to figure out that process.

Even the cases where gen AI quality might be good enough, it is not worth the toxic association. Our players are very clear that they don't want it.

We worked in VR for a decade. We've seen what happens when people make plans and change all their processes based on potential instead of focusing on the present. It usually doesn't work out.”

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Turbo Button | Floor Plan: Slap Out Of It! @turbobuttoninc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

How do elevators work? We have no idea, but this week's design dive shows some of the details that make elevators feel like elevators in our game. #gamedesign #steam #indiegame #indiedev

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Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 21/07/2026

Game Informer can exclusively reveal that the extremely promising Metroid-inspired time-loop title Echo Weaver arrives this October. Learn more here: gameinformer.com/exclusive/20...

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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Lazy Kickers is a cozy soccer incremental game where you grow balls from plants and shoot goals and also fight zombies and giant monsters and go to space. Over 10 hours of gameplay for only $2.99! Out now! store.steampowered.com/app/4613890/...

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it

Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the spanish national team.
Photograph: Javier García/Shutterstock

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Cody Gravelle @minustempo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

don't sleep on desktop explorer, folks

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

One hell of a chart... Via @superjoost.bsky.social superjoost.substack.com/p/ubisoft-an...

Char titles "Share price history for Take-Two and Ubisoft against each CEO's comments on emerging tech

The chart shows Take Two's stock rising as its CEO is quoted expressing skepticism about cloud gaming, VR, and gen AI making games, while Ubisoft's fades as its CEO enthuses about each

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Don't sleep on the renaissance of Link's Awakening style action-adventure games over the past year. Pipstrello, Mina, and Minishoot are all beautifully crafted games that play great on every platform.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 11/07/2026

College football gamers have defeated capitalism

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

koozie arrived in time for the semifnals

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Turbo Button | Floor Plan: Slap Out Of It! @turbobuttoninc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

we've been using Clawed Code for years but we double checked and Steam still does NOT require a disclosure #indiegames #gamedev

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...

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Vampirium: 1997 on Steam

1997. Dracula is King of England. At his command, master your dark gifts to assassinate his enemies and secure his vampiric empire. Infiltrate locked-down locations, adapt and survive in living enviro...

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“Salute to America Immediate Evacuation” is an instant classic.

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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

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kelsey @whoaakelseyy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

ANOTHER WIN FOR BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP

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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 01/07/2026

The Overton window keeps sliding.

Edit of the "i want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and i'm not kidding" tweet, now simply reading "i want games made by people who are paid to work"

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✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

what if the real video games industry was the people who made the games along the way

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My first hobbyist game was for Xbox Live Indie Games. It's no longer available anywhere. The first game I directed professionally was a 32 bit iOS game. It's no longer available anywhere. I founded a studio. Our first game was delisted by its publisher a decade after launch. It's no lon--

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's emotionally taxing to see an industry you love and have spent twenty years dedicating a career to implode.

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Oh man, the new EA College Football game has marching band covers of Mass Effect, Command & Conquer, and Battlefield music! For example: open.spotify.com/track/3TdFac...

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Hell March

EA SPORTS College Football Marching Band · College Football: Fight Songs, Vol. 3 (Original Soundtrack) · Song · 2026

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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 30/06/2026

Something different this week—a column about coping with the unending tide of bad news in the game industry (and beyond). It's difficult to express, but I'm not a pessimist about all this. There is a way through—but we don't know what it looks like, and in the meantime, boy does everything hurt.

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

About half of the collectables in our game are placed in spots where we see players reading into environments and trying "wrong" solutions for puzzles in playtests. For a comedy game, we spend more time making wrong answers fun and interesting than we do reinforcing the right ones!

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

when you spend more water on the AI previs than the lumber for your project

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/06/2026

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In light of Steam Machine's pricing, trying to figure out new min specs for our game

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

this seems like standard NYT stuff until you realize it’s in an *obituary*

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