iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sure would be neat if what remains of The Coalition can all stay employed to potentially make more 87 rated games.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Take Ai away the Ai reliant are unable to do the cognitive lift because their problem solving muscles needed to innovate never developed. You have trained prompt writers. Not problem solvers. Now add the uncontrollable cost from token churn that creative iteration requires. WTF are we doing?

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Geller isn't the only one.

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#1 rule of art direction is no accidental peen...

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026

I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...

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Dressmaker on Steam

Become a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking.

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Publisher/Investor gaslighting limmerick evolution: 2024 - "Survive till 2025" 2025 - "Market will fix by 2026" 2026 - "Sorry, please hold your dicks till GTA26" 2027 - "Interest rates are in heaven. More layoff news at 11!"

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The Sisko @patbits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what about in the ground

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Mike Straw | Insider-Gaming.com @mikestrawmedia.com · 29/09/2026

I keep seeing people throw out the term "Covid Correction" for the mass layoffs we continue to see in the games industry. We're beyond that. It's far beyond the mass hiring during Covid. It's mismanagement, poor trend chasing, cuts of departments to use AI (not as much but happening), etc.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For nearly two years, I've been investigating a pattern of ominous legal letters sent to journalists by defamation counsel representing Bobby Kotick. That investigation is finally live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another Call of Dookie by Xbox leadership 💩

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Everyone at Xbox - and everyone no longer at Xbox - all deserve better than whatever this is.

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せきはん @sekihang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Duel💥

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Joe Merrick @joemerrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To commemorate the collaboration between Pokémon and the ESA, a special Pikachu plush was sent to the International Space Station from April 11th through June 17th What a picture. Absolutely stunning

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Watching the press finally realize that if they just stopped tolerating him he would actually just go away…

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Ohh Oh Damn - Surprised Man Reaction

ALT: Ohh Oh Damn - Surprised Man Reaction

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Did someone say Kojima?

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

applications for this coming year's Experimental Games Showcase at the Game Developer's Conference are officially OPEN!! send us your weird games and game-like experiments! www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

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Experimental Games Showcase

SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You gotta give it up to Earth Wind & Fire for not even bothering to add a Water guy. They were just like it’s fine

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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My friend made a cool game on a game jam and within a month a slopclone of it is on Steam. This is happening every day for indie devs and I hate it.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“GenAI is great for parts of the game you don’t care about” Wait. Is that an option?

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 21/09/2026

Nighthawks launches TOMORROW!! Creating this game has taken us eight years. A long time for humans, but just a blink of an eye for an eternal vampire. We are so excited you have no idea. store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."

Screencap of tweet on X from @jackclarkSF (Jack Clark):

"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Private Equity is about to FAFO! Game IP isn’t a black box store you can slap a brand logo on and staff with randos. The success of these games were largely dependent on the disciple leads that built them. Kill the creative leadership. Kill the franchise. More Billion $$$ mistakes incoming

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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 20/09/2026

Auteurship is counterproductive in the best times and destructive in the worst. And when you extend it to an entire studio identity, you both root the creative expectations in the past and try to convince people that a studio forced out of its comfort zone will guarantee past quality.

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 18/09/2026

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

concept: boardwalk empire but lackadaisy cats #artpost

coloured doodles of an anthropomorphic hairless sphynx cat in the style of Lackadaisy Cats, wearing 1920s business suits and jackets, a caricature of Nucky Thompson from the HBO series Boardwalk Empire

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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 17/09/2026

I’m sorry but…what? They were selling other people’s content to each other???

According to another portion of the motion that was unredacted on Thursday, on top of copying stories to teach LLMs to cook up content that looks a lot like news, the companies illicitly copied
"billions of web pages" for "horse trading"-like deals
- meaning they sold the content to each other rather than licensing it from the news organizations. Microsoft did not address a question about the allegation.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 18/09/2026

The shareholders demand Gralatro Thexpedition 33 Autobloxcraft

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Lisette Titre-Montgomery @lisettetitre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Who’s gonna tell them that game developers aren’t this organized?

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Charlie Day: Always Sunny Pepe Silvia

ALT: Charlie Day: Always Sunny Pepe Silvia

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The most exhausting part of making a game is definitely the part where you have to make the game

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Each of my books has depended on the archives of the Performing Arts Library, of which I made free use because I'm lucky enough to live close by. This gift robs me of my unfair advantage & I hate it. (Seriously: A miracle that will transform performing arts research.) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/a...

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New York Performing Arts Library Gets $60 Million Gift for Preservation (Gift Article)

The anonymous donation, the library’s largest ever, will support digitization of archival items related to theater, dance and music.

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gu3st @gu3.st · 16/09/2026

ok wardogs ceo

steam email indicating a refund for wardogs

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A Major Turbonerd @moist.dad · 16/09/2026

the nice thing about the absolute glut of good games out there is that when the person who runs a studio that makes a game says something dumb, evil, or both, you can just not buy that game and STILL have a bunch of good games to play

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