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Thunder Lotus @thunderlotusgames.com · 06/10/2026

We're back with some great At Fate's End news! New release window, first demo ever and new gameplay trailer: head here to read what's up! ---- De retour avec des nouvelles d'At Fate's End! Nouvelle fenêtre de sortie, 1ère démo et nouveau trailer! Article dispo en francais 👇 #AtFatesEnd

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At Fate's End new release window and Steam demo out now! | Thunder Lotus

At Fate’s End coming to 2027, Steam demo out now, and a new gameplay trailer. Keep reading to know more!

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NYU Game Center @nyugamecenter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hey New York! It's NY Games Week!!! Show out for this exciting inaugural event series boosting our local industry. It's a labor of love backed by many of the friendly developer organizations of NYC, along with the city itself! Fun & games every night from now through the weekend, check it out!

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Toy Story toys crave to be played with even though it requires them to feign inanimacy. What they truly crave is death

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MirnAAH! @goodbye.computer · 25/09/2026

i got a little carried away detail and other logos here: goodbye.computer/post/8287643...

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.

An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Kernel Hearts ✨ WISHLIST NOW✨ @ephemeragames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Kernel Hearts is finally out everywhere. A Roguelike Action RPG you can enjoy both solo and with up to 4 players co-op. Get it on Epic Games Store, Steam, Xbox, Playstation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2. ⭐️Are you ready to become a Star?⭐️

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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

no one should have sex with anyone at valve until they quit delisting indie games for the mildest depictions of sexuality

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 30/08/2026

More than 12 TB of Steam games and unreleased betas from 2003-2013 have reportedly leaked. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/more-th...

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More than 12 TB of Steam games and unreleased betas from 2003-2013 have reportedly leaked | VGC

A vast amount of potentially unseen content is now being shared online…

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 25/08/2026

Today I woke up and felt like doing something a little crazy. Here it is; Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 is 75% off and just $4.99 for a limited time only ✨ Download everything I've made in a single package! kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-...

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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koyorin @koyorin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

chapter 0 of my comic MISERI MACHINA is now available to read for free on my site! it's been a labour of love that i've worked on for some time, so please check it out! // #MISERIMACHINA read it here!>> koyorin.com/miseri

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TAKADA @takada.works · 12/01/2026

Caeruleum Zero

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し @ssssecret49.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

ぴょ〜ん

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

heyyyyy IGF submissions for this year are open! If you're making a cool indie game I would love it if you would submit it! If you're thinking about it but not sure, I outline some reasons why you might (or might not) in detail here auratriolo.com/blog/2024/09...

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Aura’s IGF Submissions Advice – AURAMBLES

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Elsbeth Larkin @funtimesmcgee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hi everyone, today me and 22 others at Double Fine were hit by layoffs today. All the people who lost their jobs today care so much about the games they make and the people they work with. If anyone is looking for a tools SE with 7 years of experience and who brings baked goods on Mondays lmk.

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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Layoffs hit Double Fine today, and I'm sorry to report that I was one of the ones hit. If you need a game designer with tech chops and 2+ decades of experience, here I am.

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 22/07/2026

FIFA is short for Final Fantasy

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

late night post: I wrote a fairly long article quite awhile ago (auratriolo.com/blog/2024/09...) on why you might submit to the Independent Games Festival. Today I present something a bit more specific: Advice on navigating the submissions interface and common pitfalls auratriolo.com/blog/2026/07...

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A quick guide to the Submissions Interface for The Independent Games Festival (IGF) – AURAMBLES

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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八多 @lhata4564.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Skeb リクエストありがとうございました！

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Being on day three of scouring computer forums and finding somebody who had your same problem but eventually gave up is like seeing a dead body on Everest

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 10/07/2026

Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer (2002) how the did they get the water to look like that, this is incredible I don't mean the reflections, look at the shape of the wave as it moves, the lighting, the glow.. This and the game loop are **amazing** and needs to be studied This is lost technology oh my god

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Yarn Spinner @ MIGW @yarnspinner.dev · 07/07/2026

Something we've got cooking behind the scenes: lots of folks use Yarn Spinner for voice-acted games, and we're building tools for managing the entire VO process, from prep to recording to editing.

A screenshot of an app. On the left, a sidebar showing a list of Yarn Spinner nodes: Interruptions, Interruptions_Resume, Start. On the right, a screenplay showing multiple lines of dialogue - a conversation between two characters, Dwight and Player. Each line has a unique line code, and a small note.

Dwight: You gotta move fast, Max Force! (urgent)

Dwight: You need to disable the detonators in order, or the submarine will explode, releasing the poison nano-bots! (tense, urgent)

Player: I'm on it. (cool, confident)

Player: Hey, while I'm down here, saving the world, maybe I'll find clues about how I was betrayed by the Oversight Committee. (max doesn't think he will but perhaps he'll get lucky)

Dwight: The Committee would never betray you! (shocked)

A screenshot of the same app, but with a different view: the right hand side now shows an audio timeline, with coloured regions marked out. Below the timeline, a table of lines appear - the same ones spoke by Dwight from the previous screenshot. Each entry in the table shows a play button, time info, the text of the line, the number of tags, and a line ID. Buttons appear at the top: delete all, detect regions, export audio files.

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

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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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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

*the coolest shit you've ever seen* FIFA Ref: ...offsides

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

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Luis Paez-Pumar @lpp.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Algeria Austria absolutely one of the most bizarre World Cup games in history. What the hell was that

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GuileWinQuote @guilewinquote.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Front Mission 2's window color configuration menu is still the most romantic thing i've ever seen in a video game

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'm in love with the opening for "Tiempos Hibridos", a Mexican indie animated series project by Beto Irigoyen. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcIP...

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Thirty Flights of Loving update! 👉 it's now Steam Deck Verified! 👉 Gravity Bone (included in the download) now has developer commentary! 👉 Fixes to the save/load system! store.steampowered.com/app/214700/T... Big thanks to Ethan Lee www.flibitijibibo.com for helping make this update happen

Screenshot of Thirty Flights of Loving. The UI displays a gamepad prompt.

Screenshot of Gravity Bone. The screenshot shows a developer commentary node.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/06/2026

KNICKS IN FIVE KNICKS PRIDE BROOKLYN

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/06/2026

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

Various graphs related to AI coding adoption, titled "The Acceleration Whiplash"

Epics (features) : +66.2%
Features: +33.7%
Pull Requests: +16.2%
Code Churn: +861%
Incidents (per PR) : +242.7%
Monthly incidents: +57.9%
Bugs per developer: +54%
Bugs per PR: +28.7%

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austin HELL ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

OH MY BAD THERE IT IS

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Josh Drescher @joshdrescher.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Unfathomably incredible. One of the greatest games of any sport, ever.

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NBA Daily News @insidenbanews.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

OG ANUNOBY PUTBACK FOR THE LEAD

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Literally cannot believe this comeback lol

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Graham Reid 🌴 @grahamoflegend.com · 02/06/2026

It's official 🌴 Ourlands is out NOW! Please go and wishlist/get the game, and if you do, drop a lil review on it too! Cozy vibes are patiently waiting for you :) Get the game here: Steam: s.team/a/2074470 Epic: store.epicgames.com/p/ourlands-2...

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I have republished my writing on Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies as it was previously only on my Tumblr and as a Google Doc, and Wings of Theve has people interested in the series. This is one of my most enduring early loves in videogames. breakingarrows.ghost.io/ace-combat-0...

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Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies as Literature

This piece was originally published in 2023 on my Tumblr and as a Google Doc. I have republished here to create a more centralized collection of my writing as well as due to the enthusiasm over the up...

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