Mastering Community Management Book — Victoria Tran Learn how to do community management for video games right. This book covers the fundamental concepts of designing an online community from the core basics of what it is, and then the journey from pre...

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My book Mastering Community Management is finally ready!!!
➡️ Learn how to create long-term, sustainable, and intentional game spaces online
➡️ Pre to post-launch community guide
➡️ Case studies, engagement, and infrastructure tips

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Descenders Next - Official Release Date Trailer | ID@Xbox YouTube video by IGN

April 9 babiiieeee

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Thanks for hosting us and helping to share some of the awesome developers working with Xbox 💚

Games games games 💚 IGN’s ID@Xbox Showcase includes 22 announcements from some of our amazing partners 💚 go check it out! 👀

Check out our FINAL programming announcement for #DICE2025 featuring speakers from Riot Games, Roblox, NVIDIA, and more!
Discover more information about these inspiring talks and curated discussions centering on this year’s theme ‘Built to Last’: dicesummit.org/dice_speakers/2025_programming.asp

👋 Hey Bluesky friends

Structed's Blog - Announcing godot-playfab 1.3.0 godot-playfab 1.3.0 - Now with Steam Login

Announcing godot-playfab 1.3.0 - Now with Steam Login!
Now available on the AssetLib, Itch and GitHub.

Thanks to:
- TheDedemon for the Steam Login implementation!
- MikeSchulze for GDUnit and the Runner action!
- @coaguco.bsky.social for GodotSteam!

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Excited to jump back into Raft which is now available on Xbox, and it comes with cross-play! 🌊🦈Congratulations to everyone at Axolot! 💚

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Special viewing & panel of War Game: The Making of S.T.A.L.KE.R 2 at BAFTA tonight, emotional and inspirational hearing from Jenia and Masha. Highly recommend watching to understand more about what they overcame 💚

Time for my annual thread of under-the-radar indie games from the past year. These are all games that I enjoyed that have (mostly) 1000 Steam reviews or less. With the Autumn and Winter sales coming up, add them to your wishlists and support indie developers!

Going on Arsenal def now, Gabriel or Timber? He’s looking locked, attacking, passes eye test

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review – transfixing Ukrainian dystopia built on underlying tragedy Explore the starkly beautiful landscapes of the irradiated Zone in this foreboding and remorselessly challenging survival adventure

Held off my review of Stalker 2 until the launch patches - it’s *much* more stable now and is unquestionably, a fascinating often beautiful game about solitude, sacrifice and trauma

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Stream Your Own Game with Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) - Xbox Wire Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate members can stream select games they own, in all 28 countries where Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) is available.

In some objectively good Xbox news today, this Cloud Gaming update is pretty sweet:
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I’m all in here now! 🦋 dramatically deactivated my account on camera for ‘the place that must not be named’ during a meeting with @nickzuclich.bsky.social 😆

In The Zone - How S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl’s Brilliantly Unforgiving Setting Presents Horror As Normality - Xbox Wire S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is an unforgiving survival adventure across a dark alternate Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, out on Xbox Series X|S, PC and Game Pass now.

A proud day with our friends at GSC Game World for the launch of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 on Xbox Game Pass. From revealing at our Xbox Showcase in 2020, GSC have overcome huge odds, it’s been inspiring to work together, build friendships & see the support from Xbox 💚

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Stream Your Own Game with Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) - Xbox Wire Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate members can stream select games they own, in all 28 countries where Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) is available.

Today we announced 50 great games are now available for streaming with Xbox Cloud Gaming! 💚

A huge thank you to all our partners for their incredible support. We can't wait to help you reach even more players on TVs, browsers on supported devices like smartphones, PCs, and tablets. ☁️

I am so much looking forward to the @stalker2.bsky.social STALKER 2 release the day after tomorrow!

Same!

Keynote: How WINGS' Self-Publishing Model Creates a More Diverse Games Industry YouTube video by GCAP

My keynote from GCAP is online.

Creating funding that supports a more diverse industry is very important to me.

And like most things in life it starts with bringing down the patriarchy.

You can read the key takeaways in this 🧵

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