I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.
I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!
It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow
It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker
This was never about woman's sports
A Steller's jay that I saw this weekend at Salt Point State Park, California, USA.
#birds
inevitable edit
For @aftermath.site, I wrote about the crucible of beating the Manbreaker in Baby Steps, a brutal challenge that the game actively tells you not to do. I am happy that I did it. aftermath.site/baby-steps-m...
We’re embracing the dark sci-fi world and survival extraction challenge of Marathon.
🔗 Watch the full video: youtu.be/fjzmhROTv28
Die Größe von einigen der geplanten Kraftwerke ist gewaltig. Dies zeigt beispielhaft ein Vorhaben von Homer City Redevelopment am Standort eines ehemaligen Kohlekraftwerks im US-Bundesstaat Pennsylvania: Dort soll ein Gaskraftwerk für Rechenzentren mit einer Gesamtleistung von 4,4 GW entstehen. Zum Vergleich: Ein anderes US-Gaskraftwerk mit nur einem Viertel der Kapazität (rund 1,1 GW) versorgtlaut den Betreibern eine Million Haushalte in New York und Philadelphia mit Strom.4 Unternehmen mit den größten Gaskraftwerksexpansionsplänen mit Bezug zu Rechenzentren (USA) Unternehmen Gesamte geplante Kraftwerkskapazität in MW Größtes geplantes Gaskraftwerk Homer City Redevelopment LLC 4.396 Homer City Generating Station Frontier Group of Companies LLC 3.600 Shippingport Power Station The Anschutz Corporation 3.200 Seminoe Power Project Entergy Corporation 3.133,3 Titanium Advanced Power Station Ameren Corporation 2.900 Sioux Power Plant GOGEL-Recherchen zeigen: Auch in Deutschland spielen Rechenzentren eine immer größere Rolle für den Gaskraftwerksausbau. Mit 1,55 GW stehen bereits rund 12 Prozent d
Jeez. Nearly a full one third of new fossil gas expansion in the US is specifically for data centres. It's 12% in Germany. It should be 0% in both!!!!
www.urgewald.org/shop/fossile...
HEY if you have ever wanted to make a whole working #PICO8 ROM from absolute scratch, but weren't sure where to start...
just head over to www.pico-8-edu.com and i'll take you on a lil 15 minute tour that will have you up and running in no time! well, in 15 minutes 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWsj...
Marathon key art
A Rook shell standing over a defeated Assassin shell
A defeated Vandal shell
Marathon releases March 2026 targeting a price of $39.99/€39.99/£34.99.
➡️ New info in today's ViDoc: youtu.be/fjzmhROTv28
▪️Darker sci-fi world
▪️Rook, aka scavenger mode
▪️Dead Runners drop as corpses that decay over time
▪️Solo play
▪️Prox chat
▪️Improved visuals, deeper environmental storytelling
So hey, I wrote a book!
So Rugby, What's That? is a grand adventure through all things rugby- From the great game's origins over a thousand years ago, to Ilona's USA and Siya's Springboks, stopping off at Jonah, Johnny, and the endless joy along the way!
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BIG NEWS:
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
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Loop the dedicated soundtrack in another tab while you're at it imo 👀
This music was composed while looking at b-roll of Phantasy Star Online and reading random articles on Kimimi's blog, and is recommended to be employed in a similar environment.
Why were there gender-balanced teams at Sega in the late 80s, and why was this never the case again afterwards? I also provide a chronology of the industry's pioneers in Japan, while addressing the issue of gender discrimination, before discussing working conditions more broadly in a later chapter.
TWO WEEKS UNTIL DEMONSCHOOL
Mike Tindall's rebel league has been gaining a lot of attention. It's about to be rugby's Hindenburg. We break down why this is a bad-faith disaster waiting to happen.
youtu.be/NITlYX7FT-c
Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.
I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/
Marathon Closed Technical Test: Steam signups open! Apply now. Test runs from Oct 22, 10 AM PT - Oct 28, 10 AM PT
Steam signups for Marathon's NDA’d Closed Technical Test (Oct 22, 10 AM PT – Oct 28, 10 AM PT) are open in NA and EU. Hit “Request Access” on our Steam page:
🖥️ s.team/a/3065800
NA and EU Console players, sign up via Bungie.net:
🎮 bung.ie/3VOVUgH
Such a good post about game industry hype cycles. Rare in that it comes from an ex-CEO (Nexon) yet also contains deep wisdom about how broken the industry is.
If you make games and run a studio, read it.
www.owenmahoney.ai/owen-mahoney...
I don’t know, there’s something magical about the feeling that you could experience crushing misery or ecstatic glee at any moment.
Of course my home team would lose that game.
"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"
An internal scan of a runner shell with the text "RESPONSE"
We’re opening Marathon playtest signups for an NDA’d Closed Technical Test from October 22 - 27. Info here: www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Ar...
I used to work for a company called GameTap, we were probably the first "Netflix for games," started around 2006. It didn't go well. I used to think the idea was ahead of its time, and maybe it was, but I also think times have changed and this no longer makes sense. 🧵
Favorite part of my week every week. Thank you for making it possible!
As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway
Buy @foddy.net's cool video game, you will not regret
