Kiera Lord

Kiera Lord

@cratesmith.bsky.social

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Liam Robertson
@liamrobertson.bsky.social

Hilarious and easily avoided fumble from Asha Sharma. It’s especially funny that this comes right after all those weirdly sycophantic pieces fawning over her as a genius business leader.

Kotaku@kotaku.com

Xbox Reportedly Bungled $500 Million Netflix Exclusivity Deal To Develop Movies, Shows Based On Games https://kotaku.com/xbox-reportedly-bungled-500-million-netflix-exclusivity-deal-to-develop-movies-shows-based-on-games-2000749336

kotaku.comXbox Reportedly Bungled $500 Million Netflix DealAccording to industry insiders, newly appointed Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overplayed cross-media potential with recent Netflix exec Peter Rice to the tune of $800 million

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United Videogame Workers-CWA
@videogameworkers.bsky.social

Our hearts go out to the passionate developers at #Bioware whose livelihoods were ripped from them by corporate malfeasance. To those affected, take time to rest and recover. Be with your families, your loved ones, and friends. Then, when you are ready, organize. Solidarity forever.

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lex luddy needs a nap
@lexluddy.xyz

xbox's new marketing campaign of "fuck you, eat your slop" seems to be going great

Holly Green@winnersusedrugs.bsky.social

Senior Business Strategy Manager Brandon Stirrup is over on X confirming that Microsoft/Xbox is using AI in games development

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Kenney
@kenney.nl

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

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@judi-hench.bsky.social
Seán Ferrick@seanferrick.bsky.social

I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.

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Micah Lee
@micahflee.com

Replying to @micahflee.com

You can read all the details in my write-up, which also shows exactly where in this public dataset you can find all of this micahflee.com/flock-camera...

micahflee.comFlock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentialsThis morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloa...

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psudonym
@psudonym.bsky.social

Oh hey the guy in my archery and sword fighting reference pics is a cool dude.

Raquel 🌈✨@aistear.bsky.social

Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database
@eddcoates.bsky.social

I'm pleased to announce that around 200 pages' worth of tutorial resources are coming to the Game UI Database for FREE via a brand new blog. No ads. No paywalls. No email signups. Here's a preview of the first piece dropping next week, all about crafting cross-platform control schemes and layouts!

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ShouXin手訫
@shouxin.bsky.social

A little cat quietly emerges from just a few lines. Still, yet somehow always in motion. A little moment of thought, just for the cat😺 #shouxinsketch #petart #animalart #illustrationartists #pet #sketch #sketchdaily

Kiera Lord
@cratesmith.bsky.social

No fuckwit voting for this knows how hard it is to get support from the NDIS. How fucking impossible it is to constantly prove you still need that support, while at the same time being responsible for chasing down any mistakes the NDIA has made. But you need it so you force yourself to.

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social

Watching the ALP work with the LNP and One Nation to vote that my daughter with Down Syndrome does not need funding to assist with living skills because they don't think they improve her health, wellbeing or safety

Kiera Lord
@cratesmith.bsky.social

Rather than cutting people's supports they could fix the system. But that's hard so throwing disabled folks under the bus it is! (There's so much that's fucked about this I could go on with but I need to try and sleep)

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Count Trashula
@trashmobminis.bsky.social

I didn’t paint and attach thousands of individual popcorns to model trees just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”

Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open)@hulkhoquinn.bsky.social

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

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Khao Mortadios
@khaomortadios.bsky.social

Everyone hates it when their opponent just leaves the game before it's over, so I've been trying to find ways to soften the blow a little bit. #fightinggame #gamemaker #indiedev

Kiera Lord
@cratesmith.bsky.social

Xbox will never recover from all this. Will anyone trust what they say from now on? Will devs & publishers be confident that xbox won't "cost cut" platforms and services they rely on? Is it a stretch to imagine MS from backing out of consoles like Sega did?

John Linneman@dark1x.bsky.social

If they ended up decimating id Software's tech team then I have no faith in anything they'll ever do again under the current leadership. Between last week and today's news...I just don't know what to say at this point.

Kiera Lord
@cratesmith.bsky.social

Ah! So that's how Microsoft became even more hated than Embracer group in such a short time. I wonder if she realises that the goodwill xbox once had will never come back?

Knoebel@knoebel.bsky.social

Asha Sharma has brought in a start up mentality into Xbox. Speed is a priority. The Xbox price increase was hastily thrown together after Apple announced its price increases. Decision which normally take weeks are now decided in days or hours. www.thegamebusiness.com/p/xbox-divid...

Kiera Lord
@cratesmith.bsky.social

It's like Microsoft saw what unity did a few years back and was like... "Hold my beer" Trust is incredibly important in this business, it takes forever to build and can be destroyed in an instant.

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!)
@kimsokol.bsky.social

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

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Louis 👻
@louis-van-dyke.bsky.social

yeah so i'm boothing this year with: Dungeon Pizza Cyber Buglets One More Trail and i'm SO FIRED UP that pax is seemingly being taken over by my projects and my friends awesome projects 😂 but i may need someone to sweep me up with a dustpan and brush at the end of the event 💀

PAX Aus@paxaus.bsky.social

🚨 Another PAX Rising Indie Revealed! 🚨 Everyone knows adventurers need healing potions. Turns out they also need pizza. 🍕 A cooking game with a fantasy twist! Open your own pizzeria deep inside a dungeon, serving weary adventurers who come to rest and refuel between their quests and bounties.