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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm sorry, "Metacritic bonuses" are still a thing?! They should never be a thing! If I play your game and review it and it didn't work for me and I don't think it's good, that doesn't mean the people who made it should get paid any less!

As well as having the life-changing impact of losing a job, imminent layoffs at The Coalition could also lead to another financial loss for current employees. According to Eurogamer, E-Day developers were working under the assumption of receiving a so-called “Metacritic bonus,” a pay-out should the game achieve a given Metacritic score based on critics’ reviews. However, according to the terms, to be eligible for this you still have to be working at the company at the time of the pay-out, which is expected to be “near the end of October.” Anyone let go before that could possibly no longer receive the reward for their work.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 01/10/2026

if you aren't already supporting @mothership.blog, you should be. support women and queer people in video game criticism and journalism. we deserve to exist in these spaces but, at least in the case of mothership, we can only exist and pay our writers and introduce you to new writers if YOU help us.

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 30/09/2026

🚨 12 HOURS REMAIN 🚨 Become a backer of Amnesia Fortnight: Indie Reboot to get cool swag, play game jam prototypes, vote on your favorite project, and support our indie studio. Head to Kickstarter to join the campaign, but act fast, it ends TODAY! kck.st/4gu8zAF

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyways, video games and the people who make them are incredible, and I wish the money people got that the way they should. Ah well.

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Final two cents on the PMG x Kotick story: It is paramount that you support the journalism you want to see in the world. Outlets like PMG continue to raise the bar, BUT if you want even more of that probing journalism you have to give reporters the runway and financial backing to produce it.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's cool. I'm sure all the BitReactor devs that were furloughed weeks before launch are gonna see some of that $50 million... right? Residuals are standard in other creative industries. If the people who actually made the game got their share of the profits, we wouldn't be in this mess.

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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

To those workers left at studios impacted today, and to workers across the industry, our message is simple: join us. Together we have a stronger voice in shaping our industry into what it ought to be. code-cwa.org/organize

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Contact an Organizer and Let's Organize!

Thousands of tech workers have filled out this form and gotten involved with organizing, and you can too! Use this form to contact a CODE-CWA organizer and get connected with others organizing at your...

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I dunno man, I just vehemently don't agree with you if you say something like Obsidian should have been under Bethesda from the start. Just an integral misunderstanding of how those studios function and what they're about. A surface level reading of them making "similar" games

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 22/09/2026

Nighthawks is OUT! When the sun sets, outcasts rise. Gather new friends, face old prejudices, and prepare to seize the night in Nighthawks, the vampire RPG where the secret is out... but the hunt continues. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/... GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/nigh...

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Grace @gracekind.net · 19/09/2026

Frog built a wet lab for the AI model. "There," he said. "Now it can do its own experiments." "What the fuck?" said Toad

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nathaniel @pedrothedagger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

fundamentally, the cost of housing in north america, and the cost of health insurance in the USA, has made game development outside of highly selective experienced/technical/creative roles economically untenable. You're seeing this in North America bearing the heaviest brunt of layoffs &

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is wild: scammers are hijacking real artists' official Spotify pages with AI slop to make $$$. We know this because we did it. We made AI music and put it on a real band's page. It was shockingly easy. There is a gaping hole in how music is digitally distributed www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...

404media.co

I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy

A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lots of rude comments but each of these items gives her a different stat boost and some of us care about gameplay

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 14/09/2026

I feel it's important to share this again. The internet is so hostile toward creators nowadays. I've seen people have their work stolen, and no longer feel comfortable sharing their creations. We can do better. Let's be supportive to the people that make this a better place! 💞

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 14/09/2026

The "Adults Only" ranking has been removed from Nighthawks! Everything is set for launch on the 22nd! Phew. What a roller coaster. Thank you everyone for your amazing support while we got this sorted. If you weren't able to wishlist before, now you can! store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

All AI generated content can do is waste your time. It is, in this sense, stealing your life, the precious finite time you have on this earth from you, every second you are forced to interact with it, forcing you to look at its meaninglessness. It is a mindless vampire.

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 13/09/2026

If anyone has contacts at Valve who can help expedite this, we certainly wouldn't say no to the help. In the meantime, I'll be here swimming in cortisol.

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Synaptic Sugar @synapticsugar.games · 11/09/2026

Thanks @itch.io for boosting #playdate games, and in this case specifically Agents of Groove! 🪩🕺

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itch.io @itch.io · 11/09/2026

Agents of Groove: A story-driven rhythm action game for Playdate with a dynamic soundtrack. Help undercover dancers stop a sinister plot! synapticsugar.itch.io/agents-of-gr...

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Sally Beaumont | BAFTA Breakthrough | Voice Actor & Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like it's too late to start something new, change your mind, or be more yourself: I mean this with utter love, but your brain is a lying liar that is telling you lies. Do what you need to make your brain a safe place to hope- you deserve to be fully alive, while you're alive.

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Need more rakes. The console mfgs have already stepped on all existing ones.

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Tijn 🍉 @tkers.dev · 07/09/2026

I’ve just released One Bit Bandit! 🎰 My new #Playdate game about playing a slot machine, and an exploration of gambling, chance and self-deception. Feeling lucky? Give it a spin: tkers.itch.io/one-bit-bandit

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One Bit Bandit by tkers

Sin to win!

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Scenic Route Software @scenicroutesoftware.com · 09/09/2026

Hey guess what?! Bedbeard's Revenge is coming out on September 24th, and you can wishlist it right now! #playdate play.date/games/post-h...

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Bedbeard's Revenge for Playdate

A parody of AI and the arrogance of big tech.

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

BREAKING: Blizzard union workers have ratified a historic contract that has secured guardrails around AI usage, layoff protections, remote/hybrid work benefits, and much more.

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Blizzard union workers ratify contract covering 1,900 employees

Union members have secured guardrails around generative AI usage, layoff protections, remote and hybrid work benefits, and more.

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rae @rae.wtf · 09/09/2026

🌿 ROWBOT RALLY 2 🌿 the all-new, space-age sequel to the award-winning playdate game coming soon to your playdate, and your PC wishlist: 🟨 play.date/g/pesto 💻 raewtf.itch.io/rowbot-rally-2

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Mike Crassweller @zoomba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Now... what could we do to reverse course and make the US a more viable place to found a new game studio? - Universal Health Care - Grants for the Arts at the Federal, State, and local level - Generous tax benefits in states that don't already have a huge tech sector

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Melissa (Memo) Moorehead @n7memo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For game devs in the United States, consider taking advantage of Labor Day this year by resting and decompressing - you deserve it! - and by joining a union like this one: uvw-cwa.org

uvw-cwa.org

UVW-CWA

United Videogame Workers, a game industry-wide union for North America!

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 07/09/2026

By the time you get to that cool-looking indie game that you're waiting to go on sale, the studio will have closed

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Synaptic Sugar @synapticsugar.games · 04/09/2026

It's #BandcampFriday! Looking for a great no-AI videogame soundtrack that spans genres like funk, synth-pop, rock and more? Try the 22 tracks from Agents of Groove, 15% off with code "groovy"! #gamedev #indiedev #playdate #VideoGameMusic

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Agents of Groove Original Soundtrack, by Synaptic Sugar

22 track album

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Actually you know what, let me just

A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold that has been edited and overlayed with the logos of Claude, OpenAI and Grok. She is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”

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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 31/08/2026

🚨AMNESIA FORTNIGHT 2026 KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN IS LIVE 🚨 Help us keep making weird and wondrous games; 26 amazing game pitches await your votes, and in the end, one prototype will emerge victorious! The fate of THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE is in your hands! 🌌 www.dfaf2026.com

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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 31/08/2026

To all Mediterranea Inferno fans: we're releasing a physical edition in collaboration with @lostincult.co.uk www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/medit... There's a limited edition with an exclusive dev interview (and more), plus a regular retail version. Both for PS5. Lots of love poured into this one <3

Mediterranea Inferno EDITION and its contents: game, poster, sticker, essay, alt cover

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you want a GTA tier later you will have to fund a weird little game with silly ideas in it now. That’s the deal.

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Synaptic Sugar @synapticsugar.games · 27/08/2026

Cafe Machina is out on #playdate, and if you also own Agents of Groove you'll be able to craft dishes from one additional and especially groovy restaurant! 🪩🌮☕

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 27/08/2026

Just a PSA for all the other major publishers: You can’t make a GTA 6. Don’t have any meetings about it. Don’t put together any pitch decks. Don’t preemptively doom your workforce and the industry any further than you already have. Leave it alone.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 27/08/2026

To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...

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Brütal Legend | The Tainted Coil shall rule forever! by Double Fine Productions

A sale by Double Fine Productions, 100% off Brütal Legend

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Lee Petty @leepetty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP Tim Curry, who voiced Doviculous in Brutal Legend. What a thrill it was to hear him voice our villain, when I grew up going to midnight showings of Rocky Horror. Fucking legend.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 26/08/2026

Is this all you can conjure aftermath.site/google-ai-vide...

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Compulsion Games @compulsiongames.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

South of Midnight is 35% off for the first time on PS5, until tomorrow! We’re indie again, and every purchase directly supports Compulsion and our next project.❤️

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/08/2026

I tell people all the time that I got lucky with my career and it annoys a lot of them. "No, but you're good," they will say, and I will say, yes, I am good, and also here are all these people who write as well as I do but did not get the same break, so being good isn't the issue, being lucky is.

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 21/08/2026

Confirming: When you buy a DF game now, you support us directly!

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 21/08/2026

PSA: A heads up for those (kindly) supporting us with game purchases today: 1. Kiln and Keeper are getting permanent price changes soon! 2. All our games on Steam are getting international price adjustment reviews! 3. It's Psychonauts 2's birthday next week, which means a sale!

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