The Black State of the Games Industry Survey is up! It'll be open till May 6th, 2026 and should take 20 minutes maximum of your time. Only requirements are that you're a Black Game Developer over the age of 18! 🎮🎮🎮
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A banner that reads "Game Workers Conference" in white text on a pink and blue background, alongside the ball and threads logo.
Do you work in games? Are you tired of corporate greed taking over our industry? Do you miss when industry events were by workers, for workers?
The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the #GameWorkersConference. May 22-23 ❤️🔥
UVW-CWA members are forming unions at their own studios to make better games and to build a better industry.
Solidarity to the Heart Machine devs - if you’re interested in organizing, this is your sign! Reach out to us either in our DMs or at GDC this week 💪
Finally
some good fucking news
Hey, so we got a trojan horse
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watch for a sneak at our mech fighter concepts from Connie Kang and Shaun Keenan!
The cover of The Power Fantasy #16.
Happy The Power Fantasy #16 day!
Love that this exists and honored to have Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator be a part of @bvigaming.bsky.social #BlackHistoryMonth Gaming Showcase.
Check out the replay for a bunch of passionate indie devs making the games they want to see.
Happy ancestral birthday to Dwayne McDuffie, who inspired me and so many others by blazing trails and opening up the horizons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt6y...
I can't believe this fucking nonsense
You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...
Death to Pachuco cover art by David Lapham, Lee Loughridge Shape of a man. Inside man is the whole story of death to pachuco. Sailors. Riots. Pachucos. Pachucas. Ricky Téllez story. Barajas. Merrill. Loughridge. Dennis.
¡Hola! I am a 6th generation Tucsonan indigenous to the Sonoran Desert living in L.A. My new graphic novel “Death to Pachuco” is available for preorder. True crime historical fiction based on the Zoot Suit Riots. Art by @ohhhaeee.bsky.social & Lee Loughridge. bindings.app/read/WqFIouc...
We just released the 2025 Impact Report for Game Devs of Color. It's 39 pages of what we accomplished in 2025, since founding, and priorities for 2026 and beyond. Grateful to work with such a brilliant team.
The 2026 GDoCExpo is Sep 22 - 25, with speaker & game applications opening late Feb!
I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.
I AM SO STOKED!!!!!!!!
Loved Thirsty Suitors and loving this even more. I want more games like Dosa Divas
Very awesome talking to Kotaku about DropShot. Check it out!
Don't forget to check out some amazing Black Femme Devs this Black History Month!!! 👩🏿💻🖤🎮
go.bsky.app/88aYGTF
This looks bad, right? But here is the thing... ITS WORSE
This survey only reached a narrow selection of respondents. Notably cut anybody who has been unemployed for too long. Mostly just ppl who can afford to attend GDC. Many laid off before 2025 are still looking!
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All the participants in this are so good. Do yourself a favor a look through them.
We want your games! Black folks making games, we want to see and share your dope trailers for your upcoming releases!
OR some developer commentary over gameplay.
Only requirements are - game must not be out (or released in the last few weeks) AND footage must be dope.
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.
It was amaaaazing. Congrats to the @compulsiongames.bsky.social audio team for winning best music at the New York Game Awards! I was honored to accept the award on their behalf.
They captured the sounds of the South beautifully and the award is so deserved!
A game I worked on is coming out really soon. Made in Africa. Please check it out 😭😭😭😭
Hey y’all: if you use Libby and you hate them allowing generative AI content and incorporating it in other ways you can go to your profile, scroll down to “help and support”, and take a survey to tell them that you hate it
So here's to one hell of a ride on Anthem. A bit of pre-launch dev, a bit of live service, and a bit of Next. Some of my fondest memories amidst some very complicated times in both games and how communities engaged. I would do it all over again.
RIP Anthem
We're in the process of switching to emailoctopus.com for the IGDA NYC newsletter after having it on Mailchimp
I’m working on a story talking with Anthem fans as we head into its final days, but if you’re a BioWare dev (current or former) who wants to talk about the game, its legacy, and its fate, on or off the record, I would love to hear from you. Can be reached at kshepard@kotaku.com. RTs appreciated!
A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve.
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body.
This is not new but it is expanding.
The murder is horrific and traumatizing enough but for us black and brown folks the breathless "this doesn't happen here" / "this is beyond the pale" *compounds* the grief
