US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

I dunno about y'all but I'm fairly sure we were sold out. Everybody involved needs to be held accountable for this, and the data centers need to be held not just to the same, but to higher environmental standards.

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i am hearing that the s&box people are taking their branch of source 2 and uhhh "rewriting all the systems in c#" and uhhh "removing hammer" in favour of their own level editor. if true it is perhaps the stupidest thing anyone has ever heard of or will ever hear of again

I missed when you can find a story on Magic Cards, in special ones that compliment each other and let you make a Fanon.

Go Little Krelg! I am glad you found a way to finish your project on your own way!

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

i drew this a couple years ago to vent about the state of things and people said i was "doomposting" but honestly things haven't gotten any better so the feeling remains

Started doing solo indie game dev last year and the newfound agility just feels so liberating

Nonprogrammers 5 years ago:
"I have no idea or interest in how software is developed, deployed or tested."

Nonprogrammers today:
"I HAVE STRONG OPINIONS OVER THE DESECRATION OF THE JIRA WORKFLOW CAUSED BY VIBE CODING"

Quick subclass change to 3D modeller for this week

#soloindiedev #indiegamedev #solodev

Haven’t seen any wild or impressive Gen AI April Fools jokes. Just goes to prove that AI doesn’t make anyone more creative …or that the people who are attracted to using it are creatively bankrupt.

What the fuck github

I recently saw someone try to make the "if a game is good, it'll find an audience" argument the other day and I've been mad about it since.

Success is never guaranteed. You can do everything you can to improve your chances, but I wish more people recognized that quality work ≠ guaranteed audience.

Hardware > Graphics Cards 'Cripple their sales, tank their stock price. Stop collaborating with them as developers': New Blood CEO on fighting against DLSS 5

He’s right

Sora

Please join me for a rousing round of: lol, get fucked
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Tencent's genAI animation tools don't seem to make games more fun Tencent's generative AI tools shown off at GDC are technically impressive—but do they offer anything for developers?

Tencent's genAI animation tools don't seem to make games more fun

#indiedev #gamedev #gamedevelopment

Mass Epic Layoffs Cite Fortnite Declines, But Ignore Something Extremely Obvious YouTube video by Paul Tassi

NEW VIDEO: Not something I would normally cover on the channel perhaps but these latest Epic layoffs are extra amount of bullshit

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIEA...

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project

Pass it on

maybe the even harder modes should require a TI-86 🤣

If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces.

i really just wanted to bully Nvidia's CEO in this blog, but decided it's better to provide a positive example alongside

What place will AI have in game development? Senior figures from across the games industry weigh in on the future of AI use

"So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavor to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."

www.gamesindustry.biz/what-place-w...

DLSS Yassifier exists to make it easier for people with no taste to apply the same bland hyper realistic art style everywhere. Fuck Art Direction, I guess?

Those DLSS5 comparisons are making my head explode, what do you mean the future of video games is horrible input lag and yassified faces that whitewash characters? We need to go back to when games looked like Darksiders, this has gone too far.

Regretting the decision to give the enemies all black suits now. Spot the enemy:

#GameDev #GameDevelopment #IndieDev #UnrealEngine5 #UE5

Mask-off corporate bootlicking that causes these fucks to junk the most vulnerable members of their audience at the first sign of resistance aside:

It sucks to see a fellow dev get ripped off like this, but at least the revenge story is very satisfying. Got 'em!

Oh and their game DESOLUS has a demo and you can wishlist it to help them out:

store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/... #screenshotsaturday

When Unity started collapsing I made a quick "how do I get going in Unreal" website many folks found helpful. that website has now MOVED and is a DIFFERENT COLOUR. If you want Unreal demystification, tips and scoops, this is a place

www.ughiguessiwanttomovefromunitytounreal.com

This.

Gotta be Taniks again

I swear to god @bungie.net has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI
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