Rising up at the place you do the work you love is bittersweet. But when things are toxic, someone has to talk. It's good that you do it together.

Ubisoft is no more, long live Ubisoft! On January 21, 2026, Yves Guillemot announced the end of remote work, closure of several studios, cancellation of projects, and a new 200€ million “cost-cutting” plan. We were informed of this at the same time as the press — as none of these changes had been discussed during the mandatory consultations with the works councils a few days earlier! On January 26, 2026, management announced the implementation of a voluntary departure plan that will affect 200 people at Ubisoft’s headquarters. We are promised autonomy for « Creative Houses », but what about autonomy for employees? We have been negotiating for over a year on remote work policy, sometimes under difficult conditions. An agreement has been in place since September in some studios. Trampled underfoot! We are told about responsibilities, but those who wield this word so easily do not take any responsibility for the consequences of their catastrophic management.

We are not fooled: rather than taking financial responsibility for layoffs, they prefer to push us out by making our working conditions unbearable. It’s outrageous. It is because we love Ubisoft that this situation revolts us. Ubisoft’s unions are calling for a massive international strike by all Ubisoft employees on the 10th, 11th and 12th of February 2026. NO to their anti-remote-work obsession to “cost-cutting” plans on employees’ backs to top-down decisions to coercive control on our working conditions YES to our leaders truly taking their responsibilities to management’s duty of sincerity in the face of its failings It is time for our management to understand that they cannot do whatever they want, whether with public money or the work of hundreds of people! Without us, Ubisoft would never have conquered and transformed video games as it has. WE ARE UBISOFT.

🇬🇧✊🌀 Ubisoft : enough is enough! Faced with the arbitrary decision of the CEO who doesn’t even dare talking to employees anymore, unions are calling for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th.

¡Actividad en Madrid! Genial :) ¡Suerte en la JW madrileña!

Hi all!

It's dark. It's fantasy. It's romance. Something I did not expect last year: I've worked on my first manga, and here's the first chapter!

tapas.io/series/Flame...

webtoons.com/en/canvas/fl...

#manga #comic #darkfantasy #romance #webtoon

Want to hangout in Barcelona? Is anyone attending #indiedevday Barcelona on 10 October? I'm getting my tickets today!

#indiedevday2025

Relatable

Image reads: RELEASING SEPT. 8th, 2025 Preorders available NOW! The cover of "Stay Magical!" by Claris Lam is shown.

My magical girl-themed YA (young adult) fantasy #shortstorycollection, "Stay Magical," is AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER STARTING TODAY!✨

"Stay Magical" will be officially released on September 8th, 2025.📖

Preorder at: books2read.com/u/38wBlr

#upcomingbook #writesky #booksky #preorder #indieauthor

Bump this person and their 🐶!

Hi everyone, I'm looking for work from October onwards. Game writing, narrative design, narrative consultation, mock reviews, any kind of copy, German↔️English localisation. Any and all leads to hetfeldmalindy@gmail.com, thank you!

A pretty big crochet amigurumi plushie of the Pokemon Tinkaton! Pattern by adrigurumi

Four crochet amigurumi mini Kirby made in super soft chenille! From left to right they’re holding: a megatomato, an onigiri, an orange and a magic wand!

A crochet amigurumi chenille plushie of a very round and cute mimitchi from tamagotchi!

A super soft chenille crochet plushie of the pokemon chingling, in the trans colours! They have a bell inside and make little chime sounds 💖

Hi everyone! I’m so excited because we’re so close to 1000 followers! Would you like to help me reach 1k soon? Then please repost and help me reach more friends! 🫂🍀💕

I’m a fiber artist and I also make stickers of my plushies + digital art! Welcome to my page 💖🐛

#art #cuteart #smallartist #plushart

the impossible millennial dream

Of course you're a real writer if you don't write every day or do things differently. There's no one set way to do this, bro. This shit is hard. Take breaks, take your time, find your own process that works by learning from others. But your writer license never expires. You're in for good, bozo.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

This is being fun as a marketing campaign. I'm all in with the speculation! And so far I guessed 3 out of 3.

We are revealing a new narrative adventure! Stay tuned for an even brainier game by @smallloanstudio.bsky.social

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

Sometimes (all the time) I feel my characters are smarter than I

My LinkedIn DMs are full of vendors offering their services.

Now I am looking to outsource 3D environment art, but I don't want to contact anyone blindly.

What are the best art studios you've worked with?
Reliable, communicative, and good quality? Please recommend!
#gamedev #indiedev

Planetes was based on a true story.

Take care

ADVICE - Working/Advising for free.

There are always good causes to help out with and there are always passion projects where its beneficial for your soul/c.v./sanity to work in your spare time, but there are also those who would (knowingly, or not) take advantage of you.

I love when Darius is grumpy

#visualnovel #indiegame

Pinterest used to be a nice hub for creativity. It came with a side serving of plagiarism. Nowadays it turned worse. Makes sense.

My Cyberpunk? Bartender

My Vegas? New.

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Genshin Impact developer to pay $20M fine to US Federal Trade Commission over loot box violations The settlement was announced Friday

Genshin Impact developer to pay $20M fine to US Federal Trade Commission over loot box violations

And when's the stream? 😛

Congrats! Looking dope