The Troy Baker roller coaster is him doing or saying something stupid, then enough time passes and some good performances accumulate that you go "Eh, everyone says something stupid occasionally," then he's like fuck yeah time to say something stupid again
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Canadian Game Awards 2026 Thursday, May 21 at 8pm ET at the John W H Bassett Theatre.
The Canadian Game Awards are exactly one month away!
Very excited to honour some of our amazing devs with friends and colleagues. ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฎ ๐
If you havenโt gotten tickets yet, check out the CGAs site: canadiangameawards.ca/en
Who am I seeing there?
Had a really fun chat with Montreal's @bhvr.com and Vancouver's @redhookstudios.bsky.social about their Dead by Daylight x Darkest Dungeon collab, both of them celebrating 10-year anniversaries this year, the strength of the Canadian gaming industry and more. ๐ ๐ฎ
ICYMI, the show will be hosted by both Commander Shepards, which is pretty rad:
Canadian Game Awards 2026 Thursday, May 21 at 8pm ET at the John W H Bassett Theatre.
The Canadian Game Awards are exactly one month away!
Very excited to honour some of our amazing devs with friends and colleagues. ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฎ ๐
If you havenโt gotten tickets yet, check out the CGAs site: canadiangameawards.ca/en
Who am I seeing there?
What's really cool about this story is that it's about two wonderful success stories of independent Canadian developers creating original IPs that have remained popular for so long. Really appreciated their perspective on all of that, and what it says about the larger Canadian gaming industry.
Had a really fun chat with Montreal's @bhvr.com and Vancouver's @redhookstudios.bsky.social about their Dead by Daylight x Darkest Dungeon collab, both of them celebrating 10-year anniversaries this year, the strength of the Canadian gaming industry and more. ๐ ๐ฎ
Iโd actually never seen it! Glad IMAX was my first time, what an absolute blast
I had to rush back to the internet because I cannot stop laughing at this headline.
Doug Ford: Canada's victim.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
XP Game Summit 2026 profile card showing a photo of BancyCo Co-founder Benjamin Rivers. The headline reads, "See you in Toronto! May 21st and 22nd."
We'll both be at @xpgaminginc.bsky.social here in Toronto on May 21 & 22nd. We'll be showing off the #NintendoSwitch version of our latest game, Neo Harbor Rescue Squad, and meeting with partners and colleagues in the industry.
What will the weather be by then? Who knows!
#indiegame #gamedev
Excited that Echo Generation 2 will be in this @ign.com x @idatxbox.bsky.social Showcase this Thursday!๐
Any guesses on what we'll reveal? ๐
#indiedev #indiegame #JRPG #turnbased #deckbuilder #EchoGeneration2
Still pretty wild that A24 and Alex Garland are making this Elden Ring movie.
No idea what to make of it since it's still early of course, but it at least has me more intrigued than I would have been otherwise.
So sorry for your loss ๐
Still three weeks left to get your submissions in! I've already gotten a many responses which is good, but unfortunately they echo what I feared (and sadly expected): Black Game Developers are being hit harder on practically *all* fronts despite making up a smaller portion of the industry.
Thank you!!
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Officially been at @mobilesyrup.com for 9 years now. (Anniversary was on the weekend.)
Wild itโs been almost a decade. ๐ด๐ผ
Nothing but gratitude to everyone whoโs made it all possible!
Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by Universal Basic Income, which they will violently oppose
thebeaverton.com/2025/11/tech...
Salute to an all-time tweet
โผ๏ธHey dev friends! Do I know anyone who would be interested in boothing our game Capy Castaway at BitSummit this year? Or if you know anyone who would be interested, please reach out! We're ideally looking for someone who is already in or going to Kyoto, and preferably (but not required) bilingual!
A Whole New World of Alan Menken concert in Toronto.
Not every day you get to see an EGOT winner and Disney animation legend perform live!
Congrats!! ๐
LMAO But Why Tho? Dying because of a shitty developer is not what I had on my bingo card.
We have 48 hours to figure out what to do for a new host and find a developer to help us.
For my next local event feature, I spoke with Gina Hara, the co-founder & co-director of Montreal's Gamerella.
Impressively, it's the world's longest-running inclusive game jam.
Lots of great insight into running these events the past 13 years and knocking down barriers for equity-deserving people!
This will likely be my last dedicated "local event feature" for a few weeks, but that's only because there will be MANY more starting towards the end of May between the Canadian Game Awards, XP Game Summit, Toronto Games Week, Game Con Canada and a couple of other things.
Lots to be excited about!
BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.
So cool, congrats!