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House House @househouse.com · 15/10/2026
An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox
Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)
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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Some Fortune's Weave from me other at @mothership.blog this morning! It's time to talk Dietrich and Fabio! I was surprised how much Dietrich's route was a kind of love story, one whose various peculiarities end up twisting and turning through questions of gender and expression.
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Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave's most unexpected pair is a fascinating tangle of sex and gender
"I could adopt the form of a woman so beautiful I would shine like the moon..."
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PL @yomyamn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#citizensleeper キノコ炒め
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PL @yomyamn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#citizensleeper グラスを避けそこねた
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 29/07/2026
All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...
someone holding up a sign that AI crossed out
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026
In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
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dvlsblsh @devilsblush.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
ghost in the shell / psx exact, 1997
fuchikoma crawling on the underside of an industrial structure
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Blessing Adeoye Jr. @blessingjr.com · 16/06/2026
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Natalie @heartimecia.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
we need industry-wide crediting for consultants!! i once consulted three times on a game only to be absent from the credits when it launched. credits are important for everyone, but especially for WOC who have to work 3x as hard as our white, male counterparts to get in the same rooms.
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 10/06/2026
1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.
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Game industry hardship fund
A game jam from 2026-06-10 to 2026-06-24 hosted by Necrosoft Games. PREMISE: The game industry has a problem. Too many people are out of work (reports say 33% of the industry lost their jobs in the la...
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jess 🚂 @8amtrain.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
crest of the beast #FE万紫千紅 #fireemblemfortunesweave
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hunter (comms open!) @hrpixelart.com · 08/06/2026
they keep letting people go on record and say "don't worry everyone, we only replaced our concept artists with ai" as if the concept artists aren't the entire skeleton of the thing. you took the bones out, man. look at it flippin and floppin around. fuck off
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Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
SEGA using Gen AI to "provide better content" for Crazy Taxi, get the fuck out of here
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Enbyeon, Bearer of the Werepinata's Curse @enbyeon.moe · 03/06/2026
Well, that's all my interest in the new Tomb Raider gone
The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI-assisted tools were used during development to support some early exploration and temporary development content. Any AI-assisted assets were either replaced or refined by humans in order to maintain the creative and artistic vision of the development team.
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Trang ✦ @trangmn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
lotus #art
Life in a pond with small lotus-inspired characters - drawing
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Brianna Lei @briannalei.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The Kickstarter for The Crane Rider's Tale is now live! Fly passengers around a fantasy town inspired by Chinese folktales and unravel a mindbending mystery with multiple endings. Zero Escape meets Disco Elysium 🗡️🎲 LINK: www.kickstarter.com/projects/psy...
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conner fawcett @badbucket.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
So excited to be finally sharing my cover for @austinwalker.bsky.social ’s upcoming ttrpg ‘REALIS’ Crowdfunding starts soon! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
A medieval styled illustration of the cosmological map of Realis and its thousand moons
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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/04/2026
This is my trans agenda
The most effective way to prevent trans adults is to eliminate trans children. The far right understands this, so the focus of its anti-trans strategy is to create an unlivable environment for trans children. Trans people also fully understand this. The democrats and mushy center don't understand it and react as if it's just reasonable "adult" things like transgenderism be kept out of schools and kids' media. They act as if those kids aren't trans already, in the schools alreadyTrans people are a wedge. Attacking gays stopped working, so Republicans attack trans people to get at gays. Trans minors are the wedge of the wedge. They pick on the subgroup that can't defend themselves and which Democrats are least likely to stand up for

To Democrats, this is a reasonable "compromise". Let go on the trans children, focus on the more winnable rights for trans adults.

For trans adults this is obviously, axiomatically unacceptable because *we are all ex-children*. Anything done to children is something that was done to our past selvesSomewhere right now there is a ten-year-old child who is, for all practical purposes, me. She is experiencing something she cannot explain or yet understand. She is in an unfriendly environment (Texas? Alberta?) that does not help her understand, punishes her when she tries to figure it out herself.When I see trans children being legislated away, I think: I care more about what happens to this child than what happens to me. I want her to reach forty-one without being broken and damaged, like I am from all the things cis people did to me. I want the next me to have a better life than this one.
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Micaela “grossly unremarkable balls” Deitz @dykedeitz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
for my Stop Caring debut, a deeply personal piece about 2000s diet culture and the ways Consume Me abandons its disordered players. this piece really has my heart and soul in it. it wasn’t easy to write, and it’s not an easy read, but it’s important. extremely grateful to Artemis for the home 💜
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Nicole Clark @nicoleclark.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
these super low profile thumb braces are the reason i can play video games again and i did a lot of searching to find them. no provider recommended them to me for video games! none of them really knew what to do about gaming. i don't want to gatekeep! www.mothership.blog/a-thumb-brac...
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A thumb brace has let me play games pain-free for the first time in years
Finally, I have achieved my fitness goals. My thumbs grow buffer by the day.
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 18/03/2026
You’re not sticking to graphics when you stick to graphics.
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They Fell for It
You’re not sticking to graphics when you stick to graphics.
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
fuckin shoutout to @apthomson.bsky.social for using his grand prize speech for this www.twitch.tv/gdcfestivalo...
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Twitch
Twitch is the world
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とむひろ @tomhirok.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Drop something red ✨❤️
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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
BREAKING: We've freed Cookie. Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL. More info:
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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation
We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.
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Aura @aurahack.ca · 19/02/2026
well, evo's dead
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Chandana Ekanayake @ekanaut.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We hope you enjoy the Dosa Divas demo that's out now on Steam and if you do please leave a review and wishlist! If you're fans of Expedition 33, Sea of Stars, Mario RPG, Octopath, Thirsty Suitors, this is for you.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 02/02/2026
Allow us to reflect for a moment, if you will, on a fabulous first week of publishing here at Mothership. Snowy allegory by @midimyers.com. www.mothership.blog/the-moguls-a...
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The moguls again
On difficult ski terrain, difficult games, and difficult career choices
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 26/01/2026
Welcome to Mothership. ✨ mothership.blog
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
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Cool Box Art @coolboxart.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Kaze no Klonoa 2 ~Sekai ga Nozonda Wasuremono~ / Print ad / Namco / 2001
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Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com · 22/01/2026
It's time. Perfect Tides: Station to Station is out on PC and Mac. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESUK...
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Perfect Tides: Station to Station - Release Trailer
YouTube video by Meredith Gran
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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 12/01/2026
I hit the button ✅😭🐸 🚨BIG HOPS is OUT NOW🚨 Get it on Steam | Switch | PS5 for just $17.99 with our 10% launch discount! #indiegames #nintendoswitch #ps5
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 09/01/2026
hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
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haqqy diary☆ @snackanimals.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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tama @tama00001234.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
森を行く(2022.10)
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Aura @aurahack.ca · 16/12/2025
the larian stuff sucks to hear a lot. you have to be a true all-timer loser to think generative AI is useful for concepting ideas or artwork. you let the machine do the fun part you dumbass. it doesnt tell me you think efficiently it tells me youre a fuckass who's given up on being interesting
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Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games
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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.com · 13/12/2025
DEMON'S SOULS illustrated world map v1 is uploaded 😁 (detail pics in replies) www.deviantart.com/vgcartograph...
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
around 40 game developers affiliated with @videogameworkers.bsky.social have gathered outside the peacock theater, where the game awards will take place in a few hours, for a “the industry is dead” demonstration
a crowd of devs standing near geoff’s weird promotional obeliskdevelopers in grim reaper outfits, one with a wanted sign featuring take-two ceo strauss zelnicka tombstone-shaped sign that says “RIP future class”a “the industry is dead” pamphlet
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Marina Ayano Kittaka @even-kei.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Angeline Era is out NOW!!! ^.^ here's a breakdown of some elements and techniques I used to create the HUGE visual world of Era. Ultra-dense action and secrets meant a bigger focus than ever on visual clarity and communication! ⚔️🔍 See it in action!! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
Cube-based environment art (along with melos’s “auto-cuber” tool) allows for the efficiency and complex secrets-hinting of 2D tilesets combined with the benefits of 3D lighting and atmosphere.

Large “EnviroChunks” with flexible triplanar materials quickly establish setting in the background of scenes.

Gestural vertex colors quickly and beautifully define characters that pop against the environment and look good small or large onscreen.

iNaturalist.org can be an amazing resource for game artists, featuring species id and many public domain community photos of life on Earth!

Matcap materials are good for creating shiny or translucent objects while maintaining a simplified/stylized look.
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Charlie Wagner - Wishlist Netherspire! @ccharnul.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
THE GAME IS OUT, I REPEAT, THE GAME IS OUT Hopefully I squashed all the bugs, hope everyone enjoys it! store.steampowered.com/app/2980260/...
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Save 25% on Hypogea on Steam
Escape from a mysterious underground megastructure in this short atmospheric 3d-platformer.
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Kero Quest 64 @stratobox.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Hope you’re ready for some relaxing beach fun! Play the new Kero Quest 64 demo.. NOW!!!! 🐸 🏖️ 🐧 store.steampowered.com/app/3411900/...
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Kero Quest 64 on Steam
Kero Quest 64 is a Collectathon 3D Platformer inspired by other games in the genre, especially those from the late 90s. You take control of Kero, a blue frog seeking to stop a prince from spreading ev...
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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
There's a little Einhander! See CD 194 archive.gamehistory.org/folder/bab8f...
The ship from Einhander.
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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 04/11/2025
You are a clone named Watcher, and you’ve made a grave mistake. 💠 Surface a 1,000-year-old lie from the cosmic shadows 💠 Discover the forbidden truths about your god 💠 Unravel a tapestry of familial pain, love and revolution 1000xRESIST is out NOW on PlayStation, Xbox, and Game Pass.
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Tiani Pixel @tianipixel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
it is always so fun working on high areas of the map and fine tuning the beautiful vistas you see from up top :) - work in progress! (game is ABYSS X ZERO for those who do not know! an upcoming low-poly 3D metroidvania, developed by me and @ironfairy.bsky.social) #gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame
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Nicole Clark @nicoleclark.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible aftermath.site/silksong-hol...
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A Condition Took Away The Use Of My Hands. Silksong Helped Me Rehab Them - Aftermath
Last year I woke up with the hands of an alien. Every item I grasped fell to the floor like so many grains of sand; every doorknob became a lock I couldn’t open. It didn’t hurt, but hundreds of dollar...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I was so fortunate attend the closing performance of Free Shakespeare in the Park's TWELFTH NIGHT on Sunday at the revitalized Delacorte. Sensational theater, freely shared, and a testament to the importance of public arts in NYC.
Zohran backstage with the cast of TWELFTH NIGHT in full costume.
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YLAB - Arcade Sticks @y-lab.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I had some leftover rainbow filament left, so here's my daughter's build.
a homemade arcade fightstick shaped like a cat, with rainbow printed sidesa homemade arcade fightstick shaped like a cat, with rainbow printed sides
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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 25/08/2025
In case you missed the last sale, 1000xRESIST is 30% off on the US eShop and on Humble for Steam! Our sci-fi game has: 💠 matricide 💠 doomed yuri 💠 aliens 💠 a deadly pandemic 💠 so much generational trauma Hope you have a great and happy time playing our game! 🫡
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
In the four years I've been at IGN I've watched its staff shrink and shrink, all while those who remain are asked to do more and more. I see colleagues skip lunch, stay late day after day, and burn out. IGN staff are passionate and love their work. But we can't keep letting that be exploited.
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