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Rosarie Maria🦐 @fatamorgana.bsky.social · 6h

GAME DISCUSSIONS WHEN THE STORY REVOLVES AROUND A MAN: hell yes this is one of the best stories in years GAME DISCUSSIONS WHEN THE STORY REVOLVES AROUND A WOMAN: just found it hard to care? Nothing really happens and you can't really get invested in the world or story, unlike that game with a guy

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 10h

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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Them Curry @tylerhendrix.blog · 11h

Brand. Content. Content. AI. Brand. Advertisers. AI. Content. Brand.

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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 12h

there's probably an economics reason to this I'm not quite grasping but it feels crazy to me that wildly popular hits from western studios have barely released anything since their last big title it's been 8 From Software titles since Skyrim it's been 7 Resident Evil games since The Last of Us

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lilampki @lilampki.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine getting taken by The Hiss but then u don't even get to be one of the cool Hiss guys but just cannon fodder foot soldier redshirt Hiss 😭

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

since i am working on my first new alt movie posters in *quite* a while, thought i'd share a selection of my favs from over the years ! title and description in alt text all of them are ink on claybord/scratchboard

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 18h

Transphobia is just sexism, hope all the TERFs who’ve supported ending my trans rights can go stare long and hard in the mirror, then get a good therapist.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Large Ligma Model

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Canada continues to be shameful on this issue.

Screenshot shows the man in Canada's seat looking around at the other countries leaving the room all while staying seated. The country names are a bit hard to make out, but I cross-referenced this against the seating chart that's been published.

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HeedlessNomad · Seagazer @heedlessnomad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The bow spray in Seagazer has no particles. It's two mesh sheets that run the ocean's own shader code, bent into shape in a vertex shader. Here's how it works, made in @godotengine.org. 1/6 #godot #godotengine #gamedev #indiedev

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Benjamin is ... making ottr @benjaminlistwon.com · 28/09/2026

Let me get this straight, a company and CEO whose entire fortune is based on ignoring consent and sharing private information publicly has made yet another product that does so? Color me shocked!

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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

alright so we got a silent hil in rural Japan, one in a Scottish port town it is now time for a silent hill in a Montreal snow storm

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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

don't sleep on Silent Hill f highly recommend

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

vague spoilers I guess but no one told me you would be playing as the bloodborne cleric beast in Silent Hill f

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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

you know what was a great game? Alone in the Dark (2024)

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. 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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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

nothing hits like the atmosphere of a good horror title

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Christian Sparks @hippowombat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey there friends! Unfortunately, I was among those impacted by layoffs at Heart Machine last week. If you or someone you know is looking for an experienced Unreal Engine Technical Artist, I'm available for full time, part time, or contract opportunities.

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Vincent // HEARTWORM 📸 THE ATTIC DOOR 🚪 @adinolfi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So excited to finally share this!

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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

horror games season is a great time of the year, starting off strong with Silent Hill f 1960s rural Japan is a great change of pace for a setting I love it

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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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Jeremy Jayne @jeremybjayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

sacrificing everything and working my fingers to the bone for a passion project indie game which will encapsulate my spirit and redefine the media landscape (quirky cozy game w/ fishing mini game and pet the dog)

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.

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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

sega canceling sonic? that’d be like if microsoft didn’t know what to do with halo, laid off a bunch of people, and gave it to activision

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earend | making 🐻🛡️⚠️ @earend.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Haha imagine playing the same game as someone and then being able to discuss a shared experience with them, that would be so stupid, next thing you know we'll be discussing our wages with each other

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the most depressing person to argue with about AI is the doomer types who're like "AI is bad and ruining everything but also it's never going away so there's no point in getting upset when ppl use it". Like.... you have pre-emptively chosen to be a person who will not fight for a better world

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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We don't live in slop world because of AI, we live in slop world because the purpose of everything is to generate a return on investment for capital. We evaluate everything along metrics designed to serve that purpose over any other. AI is just the best way we found of optimizing for these metrics.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 22/09/2026

Nothing will ever be enough for these people.

Microsoft gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2026 was $60.482B, a 15.36% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase from 2025.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2025 was $193.893B, a 13.38% increase from 2024.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2024 was $171.008B, a 17.09% increase from 2023.

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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the montréal police is by far the most dangerous and violent gang of thugs in town seen it with my own eyes time and time again

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every time I think "why aren't there more well-made games with left politics" I remember how much of a fucking miracle it is that games like Pentiment or Disco Elysium exist at all, despite capitalism doing everything it can to nip projects like this in the bud.

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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

incredible how it's impossible to talk to a human on any customer support service now

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

reminder that there are still about 1600 layoffs from the last announcement that haven't taken place yet and are expected to before the end of this FY

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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I just now realized that film director Zack Cregger is the same guy that was in classic sketch comedy series Whitest Kids You Know

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Xavier @xavierck.com · 21/09/2026

Working on a little mesa generator using geo nodes

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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 21/09/2026

We’re so excited to share our BRAND NEW trailer for Young Suns and announce that we’re launching on Steam on November 3rd! 🚀 ✨ Wishlist now! hi.youngsuns.com/Steam

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We got rid of the goose that lays our golden eggs to save money on feed costs... why are we not producing more golden eggs???? - Bungie

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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

hey wow calling the casting of a non-binary person 'controversial' is disgusting work.

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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

oh hell yeah Control Resonant reviews are good we are so back etc etc

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 17/09/2026

on the one hand management is bad and exploitative at all scales of business and i'm sure many of these companies did make several poor decisions. on the other the assumption that oh if you just play your cards right you'll be successful and stable is obviously, insultingly untrue

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William Davis @willdavis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's almost like the epstein class is bad for business

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

While reviewing the Steam Frame, I replayed all of Half Life: Alyx. It's still a singular game, and on the new hardware it sings. But to play it now is to be confronted with the possibility that nobody will be allowed to make a VR game of that scope ever again. aftermath.site/half-life-al...

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Will There Ever Be Another Half-Life: Alyx?

Half-Life: Alyx remains the big budget killer app of VR. But playing it again makes you wonder if anyone will match that ambition.

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Zach Soares @voxels.ca · 11/09/2026

I'm available for work! - Characters - Rigging and Animations - Environments Art I've worked on Teardown, Vampire Crawlers, Moonglow Bay and many more! Feel free to DM me or email zachary.soares@zsinked.com

Teardown Marketing screenshot showcasing the second level of the Relics of Barkuna DLC.

Vampire Crawlers screenshot from within the library. Environment art can be seen with the array of bookshelves and props

Moonglow Bay selfies screenshot from the main character. Soft and light art style

A screenshot from On The Nose, interrogating our first suspect Mr. Deerest.

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Char's lil meow meow mewtype @mewtype.online · 17/09/2026

new cat new cat new cat

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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

facebook memories hitting me with the 1st low poly 3d character model I ever made back in 2011 lol

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alex @alexbull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

imagine being an established art team at an award winning studio and one day they trot in a guy who cheerfully says he's gonna Implant AI Tools Into Your Existing Workflow and Build an AI Art Pipeline. no matter how professional they remain, with craft gone your art team is gonna mentally check out

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dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com · 17/09/2026

“Where do you see yourself in five years?”

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