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developers who consciously and deliberately give the middle finger to slop will always be that girl 💅🏻 it was so neat to go into every gallery and find every monitor+radio with cool tunes and look at all the graffiti. alan wake 2 and control resonant are clear celebrations of the joys of creation.

You know when you're working and Manalan Mailla starts playing and then you're no longer working

I wanted to not write this! I'd rather talk about the cool games that are coming out every day. Yes, Sweeney has half a point. But for everything correct he says about Valve's near-monopoly, he does two headass things that only drive people further towards Valve. Billionaire yells at monolith.

Making games is hard. On the third anniversary of Alan Wake 2, here's the funniest bugs we sent to the Dark Place. More on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/bh4uFU5f5oo #AlanWake2

Can't even begin to describe how much this rules.

This is so cool. I really appreciate remedy’s dedication to collaboration

A lesser studio wouldve just slapped some slop all over it and been done. One of the many reasons I love Remedy.

NEW: Remedy's latest game, Control Resonant, is filled with art galleries. The galleries are filled with real art When I began talking to Remedy about it, I was delighted to discover who the artists are: many are the game developers' parents My story... www.gamefile.news/p/control-re...

It's very, very telling, I think, that the markets are so concerned about the pro-democracy incumbent winning

We are absolutely in the worst timeline.

Our shared struggles should be bringing us together to fight for these resources, and to fight for real support for survivors *of any gender* TLDR: It shouldn't be men vs women, it should be predators/@busers vs survivors and those who support them.

In the last year, No More Robots has funded + is currently funding a dozen games, and has paid numerous devs to make prototypes happen for free But obviously, getting press is absolutely impossible for us, because only doom and gloom gets clicks

I'm convinced that the reason for routine firings in the video games industry is not about improving the balance sheet for investors, rather suppressing wages and by extension the organisation necessary for unions. As a class, studio owners want a precarious labour market to keep wages down.

Rockstar workers set to officially vote on union just as GTA VI comes out aftermath.site/rockstar-games...

“Picasso left this notebook with some crude sketches in it. If we give it to another artist they can paint a real picasso for us.”

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Games industry core

This is the good stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLU7...

for my first inside baseball week feature: new you are error episode about how video game industry investment works and where all the money went after the covid-era boom period, featuring @futterish.fsquared.biz

RE: games layoffs youtube.com/shorts/a5dkD...

ADDAM RESHII AHZAHNTA! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJqa...

Why isn’t anyone funding video games anymore? aftermath.site/you-are-error-...

in the current state of the industry, please don't hesitate if you're able to support indie devs & creators

in the midst of all those new games, I wanna take the time to shine a light on ✨ After the Wane ✨, by indie french studio @nova-box.com it's a narrative game with gorgeous 2D art that surely deserves your wishlist & more when it releases november 10 store.steampowered.com/app/2742720/...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh4u...

Changing acquired studios' core identity consistently leads to doom, says Nightdive Studios CEO

"For many, this is the video game industry’s “you reap what you sow” moment, proof that the AI tools many publishers have brazenly admitted to using are a double-edged sword." 🙃 Also, this Tim Sweeney guy is not an honest person. Great piece about an industry that is changing at breakneck speed:

"Cities should include in the contracts an insistence on making sure that the public is protected. Don’t let the venue operator charge excessive fees to residents. Don’t let the venue operator only have the venue open to the artists that they promote."

In the distant future, humanity has been subjugated. You are the Operatives. Enforce Doctrine's Will Operatives Revolve is a scifi/biohorror slay the spire-like that I wrote. It releases next month and you can wishlist it now! store.steampowered.com/app/3004810/...

also why would you automate one of the most fun and invigorating phases of development?

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY and i would like to shamelessly self-promote my dog comics and associated merch if that's alright with you i make a silly webcomic about my dog and then i post it online for entertainment it's called the pyr review and you should check it out (instagram: @the_pyr_review)

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher. The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.

Fighting to save an IP instead of fighting to save a creative team is how you go from Empire Strikes Back to The Rise of Skywalker. The creativity, design, and intention behind the thing is what matters, not the IP itself.

Tonights spooky film is Cronenberg's The Fly.

🛑CONTROL RESONANT SPOILERS! 🛑 Beware if you haven't finished! Not actual scenes from the game, but additional scenes I wanted to doodle that incorportate info from throughout the game and endgame. #ControlResonant #ControlResonantSpoilers

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

Videogames is the creative field where creatives are least recognised, most of the time their names are hidden away on the finished product. This is obviously deliberate on the industry's part but the audience enables it when they fail to care about the people who make this stuff.

reposting one of my fave korrasami drawings that i did back in my korrasami era 🥹 i can't believe they're married now...

Remedy please, let Dylan craft a googly eyes artifact and let him stick them on the Aberrant 🙏

Way too fucking many Bailey signs in my town.

I believe that if your company undergoes layoffs during a set amount of time after a sale or acquisition, there should be some kind of massive financial penalty or forced restitution. You can afford to buy a company, but you can’t afford the staff? Then you can’t afford to buy the company.