Just an FYI to all those anti-sag gamers:
When video game companies fire the og actors wanting a sag contract signed and hire non-union talent overseas? That's union-busting. Saying "idc about that" makes you unequivocally anti-union.
We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it.
He’s just burning your tax money.
Done with Disney. They also fired the entire visdev department at Marvel, artists who defined their look and vision and made it compelling enough to help the company rake in billions.
What even is the point of aspiring to work for ghouls like this? Used to be a childhood dream of mine. Fuck them
This is appalling. marvel studios has probably the finest visdev artists in Hollywood and… what, they’re NOTHING now?!?
Don’t mean to be an alarmist, but lately Trump has been showing signs of being exactly the person he’s always been.
Doki Doki Literature Club is a widely celebrated piece of videogame art, discusses deeply difficult topics in sincere and meaningful ways, and Google Play needs to revert the removal of the game immediately.
One thing I've noticed about many media conversations is a kind of unexamined background assumption that the news will get out *somehow* -- that if MSM crumbles, someone will take up the slack.
But as Lawrence says: maybe not! Maybe we just won't know what's going on.
A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.
My favorite genre of Steam review is a "Not Recommended" from someone with 1500 hours on record, featuring six paragraphs of nuanced analysis on why the game is fun, but not worth the price for anyone outside a very niche audience.
We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because you've seen the other shit this country spends tax money on. At least going to the moon is cool.
i wonder what concepts and tech the game industry has reinvented a million times because of how layoffs work and how they're just so commonplace in this line of work.
Cristina is SO GOOD! If you need any 2D / PixelArt help on your game, look no further!
“I’ve been writing about games for 30 years and it has always struck me that the wrong people are running the industry. But now, the stakes are so much higher on each shoddy, short-term bet.” @keefstuart.bsky.social
Epic Games firing 1000 people may seem cruel, greedy or a sign of poor management but we have to face the facts: it’s not like Fortnite is the most popular game in the world. Tough choices have to made for up and coming indie projects from small developers like this to be allowed to thrive
Imagine all the amazing games we could be making by building teams from the gigantic talent pool made up of everyone getting laid off just this year (let alone the past few years).
Everybody's trying to be Fortnite and if you don't make a Fortnite then everybody gets laid off, but it ends up even if you do make a Fortnite then everybody gets laid off
I feel like the thing with gen ai assets in games that mostly sticks out to me is that like oh.
You didn't just knowingly use the plagiarism machine that causes environmental damage.
You had to look at it, recognize how bad it is, and then go "alright time to put this in the game"
Two ceramic pigs labeled "pigs with no specific duties"
Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again
It's probably a good idea to listen to the people who were saying "abolish ICE" ten years ago and pay attention to what dangers they're pointing out now and maybe get on board with that stuff too
My old person trait is that I believe single player games should still be able to be played without requiring an internet connection.
My old person trait is that websites should always work in a web browser instead of forcing me to download an app to access it. And the app should be optional.
You also gotta kill the DraftKings Sports Betting Guy in your head. “Oh the likelihood that ICE will harm people diminishes if we give them a different job,—” I hope there’s a pebble in every shoe you wear forever. I pray there’s a stray thread bunching up awkwardly inside your socks every time.
American Marine cemetery on Iwo Jima
Our guys obsessed with ancient Sparta lack every single quality associated with ancient Spartans. Which is why this was over before it started. Zach Rabiroff got there wittily a week ago.
"Bunch of guys obsessed with Ancient Sparta can't beat the Persians at sea" was probably one of the known-knowns, come to think of it.
A tweet that reads "got my horse to water. Now for the easy part"
Publishers when a live service game is ready to launch
if ICE is actually going to be out there thugging people at airports SF conventions and stuff better start prepping the whole virtual attendance thing again because there's whole swathes of panelists who aren't going to want to do flights for a bit
Potentially unsalvageable country.
