Kotaku just reported that the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 translator claims he was fired this week and replaced by AI. When are we collectively pushing back against this? When do we as a society understand that this technology is a fundamental threat disguised as a convenience?
‘An overwhelmingly negative and demoralizing force’: what it's like working for a company that's forcing AI on its developers:
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The Romeros have survived numerous setbacks in this industry for decades (Romero Games is John's ninth studio) and continued to survive them all.
If they're saying this is the worst it's been in 40 years, I'm listening to them.
The games industry in 2026
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 studio allegedly fires "obsolete" translator to replace them with AI
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This is the most concise encapsulation of the game industry heading into 2026 I’ve seen.
send this blog to your favorite government regulator
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while industry figures, dressed to the nines, filtered into LA's peacock theater last week, protesters chanted "the industry is dead" outside of it. despite how often geoff keighley says the game awards exist to "celebrate" games and the people who make them, many feel ignored
Our statement on the recent layoffs affecting workers at Coatsink, Splash Damage, Glowmade & Square Enix, putting over 300 workers at risk of redundancy in the run up to Christmas.
If you work in the UK games industry, join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...
The next phase of the games industry is large-scale unionization actually
Last night's interview with Novara on the Rockstar firings is now up as its own standalone video, if you'd like to watch.
Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now.
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EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
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the buried lede here: ubisoft made accounting "errors" that masked the fact that it's in serious debt
'Our solidarity will always emerge stronger:' Protests against Rockstar continue in London, Edinburgh, and Paris
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
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Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help them survive and fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union.
Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts.
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What leaks?
Rockstar: tries to bust unions🦹♀️
Us: Hold my controller 🎮🔥🔥
We're fighting back 💥💥
IWGB organized a protest in front of the @rockstargames.com parent company Take-Two Interactive in London today
We'll make sure the credits are rolling on their corporate greed ❌️
@gameworkers.co.uk
We won't back down - we will fight @rockstargames.com & @taketwointeractive.bsky.social for our members' reinstatement.
No one should be fired for union activity.
You can support our campaign here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Have you considered this model for your studio?
The worker cooperative is a little-known business model in games, focused on workers' rights and democratic management, working against the current AAA flow of the industry.
youtu.be/bNVH8JQ4ORA
#gamedev
This is being a little late to the news, but this is due to pressure from #StopKillingGames early on while the European Citizens' Initiative was launching in 2024, due to fears from Ubisoft that we would succeed
No comment on all the hack stuff but I wish AAA game budgets were public like the film industry, fascinating seeing them
There's news that Nintendo got hacked but since people don't know what they're talking about, people get hyped for a gigaleak 2 when all they got is just basically the repositories for what manages the japanese topic (news) pages.
Once again, make a hit game loved by many... and you still get hit by a truck.
The industry is pretty sick right now.
Worried about the private acquisition of EA? Nathan Brown of @hitpoints.bsky.social is struggling to get too upset, given what the company has become.
With enough awful things happening in games and the world, maybe we can have a little apathy, as a treat.
Newly minted evergreen meme
Industry: hey GDC, we need you to move out of San Francisco and the US at large because it's unsafe, deal with the still-too-common harassment issues, stop charging egregious for-profit fees, and for you to provide proper compensation for speakers
GDC: we hear you but best we can do is rename it
ever since microsoft's layoffs in early july, the two zenimax unions have been fighting for impacted employees following the cancellation of the elder scrolls online studio's unannounced mmo. they've won laid-off workers more time (aka more pay), better severance, recall rights, and saved some jobs
