Onion.InfoWear: Limited Edition Zip-Up Hoodie

Dark times call for reckless purchases. store.theonion.com/products/infowars-mashup...

ACM Digital Library is now open access. You can read and review every CHI Play paper for free now. The community does absolutely wonderful work in the "serious games" space.

For the first time in our 9-year history:

WE ARE HIRING!

We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits!

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

As a former WaPo writer and vintage gamer I might suggest - hypothetically - playing the entire NeoGeo library on an FPGA core so as to not pay the Saudis a nostalgia tax

Rapid Prototyping for Game Design - a free, self-paced online group course (14 weekly topic videos) YouTube video by Chris DeLeon of Dev Pods (was HomeTeam GameDev)

When I taught college courses a couple years ago two classes were adapted from my main work (DevPods.gg) the other two were on rapid prototyping for game design

To establish everything I taught was my material, not the university's, before I started the job I put my prototyping curriculum up free 👇

Today marks the 20th anniversary of MOTHER3's release in Japan. A fantastic final entry in an already stellar series, the influence of MOTHER 3 can still be felt today.

If you have never given this game a shot, I urge you to play it when you have a chance, regardless of method.

I want them all.

Image of a cruise ship

She may not look it, but she made the Strait of Hormuz in 12 hours.

Chinese DiGRA 2026 Call for Papers: Chinese Game Studies: Publishing, Platforms, and Player Cultures: 19–20 September, Wuhan; 15 May deadline. chinesedigra.org/call-for-pap...

We're very excited that Vol. 6 of the @vgmcon.bsky.social Charity Album Jam is now up on #streaming services! Featuring 17 tracks across a range of video games and musical genres!

Listen here: lnk.to/vgmcon6

#vgmcon #vgmcon2026 #vgm #gaming

FWIW yes I was exploring turning Ludum Dare/Game Jams into something that could run on #atproto. It was a side project I hoped to build if BlueSky hired me, but alas. Personal roadmap was: Finish PDS Mastodon/ActivityPub support, get "game embedding" approved, scores/achievements, then finally jams.

After 20 years, influential game jam Ludum Dare will wind down: aftermath.site/after-20-years...

Incredibly excited for this one.

Ohio's public universities are eliminating nearly 90 degree programs as a result of Senate Bill 1 • Ohio Capital Journal Nearly 90 degree programs have been identified to be cut at Ohio’s public universities since Senate Bill 1 was signed into law a year ago.

If you think legislation that targets “low enrollment degrees” only impacts the humanities please look at this list. Degrees in chemistry, math, physics, political science, data analytics, psychology and economics are being eliminated. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/16/o...

Its kind of funny that all the technical issues we thought were going to happen to Twitter are, instead, happening to bsky.

One of my favorite writing strategies I picked up is to have a "slush" document where I place cut words from something I am editing. It makes it feel like the words weren't worthless, even if they rarely make it back into the final piece.

I appreciate Life Is Strange: Reunion's commitment to realism. For instance, one of the characters is a university president who has purchased an AI chatbot so he doesn't have to reply to emails anymore.

Vance questions the pope on just war theory hours after Leo honored its founder The vice president responded to a post on the pope’s X account in which he wrote that God is "never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.”

L to the M to the A to the O

a poster for the game workers conference, taking place on may 22-23. in the bottom-left corner, a red stream of game tools & iconography emanate from a sun composed of abstract shapes. it's nestled, slightly askew inside another poster for a boshi's place watch party for the conference. boshi's face at the bottom left overlaps the conference poster slightly, with small illustrated decorations in pure blue scattered around the rest of the frame.

we're hosting a watch party for @gameworkerscon.bsky.social may 22-23! it's a free, online conference by & for workers organized by @videogameworkers.bsky.social.

please use the qr code to rsvp! there will be snacks, swag, park hangs during breaks, & we can learn how to build worker power together.

Practicing bass for my one gig per year and looking like an idiot dancing around in this room (there is no dancing space with the band)

AdventureX submissions are open for exhibitors and speakers. Two AdventureX speakers holding microphones are sitting on a stage. Audience members are raising their hands to ask the speakers questions.

Raise your hand if you’re submitting to #AdvX26! Exhibitor & speaker submissions are open at adventurexpo.org.

Whether professional or hobbyist, apply to be a part of the UK’s only convention dedicated to narrative games.

Details on our website. Follow for updates! #AdvX

For folks who watch indie game industry news, Slay the Spire 2, in early access, outsold the *lifetime earnings* of Hades 2 AND Silksong in its first two weeks alone. Soft estimates suggest they are on track to make $250M over the next 12 months; a new record high for the Godot engine.

Me, have a bunch of weird physical symptoms. Look up the causes: its stress. Its just stress.

Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.

BallStateUniversity - Twitch Ball State Game Showcase

My students will be talking about their senior games in 15 minutes on www.twitch.tv/ballstateuni...

LIVE NOW, our bundle to celebrate Earth Month with Fanatical! Pick up 11 awesome titles, and most importantly, all purchases support WDC 🐋

Build your perfect theme park, explore the ocean, CARE FOR FROGS!

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Sorry guys, I started playing this last night, its my fault.

Debugging this Android app I am making, and my phone is like "Wow this app is crashing a lot, you should probably uninstall it."

So, a reminder: If you like a game on Steam, please leave a user review, because it remains half-buried (intentionally so) until it breaks that 50 review threshold.

And it requires 500 reviews to be eligible for the Overwhelmingly Positive rating, as well as other algorithm-stacking perks.

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news