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We're proud to share that in a few weeks' time, Rockstar staff will get to have their own say over union recognition. From pay and pensions to parental leave and overtime, this recognition agreement is a chance for workers to be involved in the decisions that shape their lives.

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Big news from the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain: Employees at Rockstar Games in the UK will hold a union vote next month, just as they release Grand Theft Auto VI

Twitch and OpenAI are unfortunately teaming up to see what users can build for Twitch with AI. To vote against this happening, vote on this UserVoice post: twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338...

At this point the only sensible conclusion is that the games industry is doing great but the desperate greed of capitalism keeps murdering us

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Laika Studios made an amazing new stop-motion movie called Wildwood that was 16 years in the making! In the age of AI slop, it is incredible to see this real art made by human hands❤️ Please support it by going to the cinema when you're interested! Behind the scenes: youtu.be/gZy36NLObaU?...

I hope workers in other game studios see WoTC unionizing, and see the mass layoffs and BioWare closing and decide it's time to put their foot down. What do we have to lose by unionizing? A job that you're afraid every day you'll be laid off from anyway? UNIONIZE THE GAME INDUSTRY!

Games industry execs have shown us that if we don't organize when the times are good, we sure as hell won't have enough power to stop them when they say our time is up.

Late stage capitalism! Yippee!!

JK Rowling’s transphobia has ruined Harry Potter. That is a shame, there was a real magic in the fantasy of it. As a kid, I always loved imagining going to private coed boarding school. Inheriting a big pile of money. Drinking non alcoholic beer. Owning a little slave guy

im sorry but finding 3d printed toys at craft fairs is like seeing ai in real life

As we wait for the Rockstar tribunal to resume, here's another speech from one of the fired workers as they demonstrated outside the hearing. This is Jacob Jones, formerly an Associate Game Designer on GTA VI's open world team:

I'm not saying it was a quest hook, I'm just saying I'd feel pretty stupid if I ignored it and missed the beginning of my adventure.

I like that devices are always "forgetting" your passwords and prompting you to enter them again like Columbo trying to trip you up and catch you in a lie

Lots of SERIOUS news on the site this week but here's a neat thing! The physical edition of Peak will include a disc and a 'buddy code' that can be gifted to a friend. I haven't seen something like this before, and given Peak is inherently social I reckon it'll be a super effective marketing beat.

Despite everything that's happened, I'm so proud of everything my colleagues and I worked on, including those who are no longer employed, and all those that are, too 🥹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz1B...

missing corny ”I can’t even draw a stick figure” jokes like she’s my dead wife🤧

Coming soon to a software product near you.

Whichever @discord.com UI devs made this little reply interaction… I love you and your brain(s).

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it's a machine that makes you stupid, folks

Wizards of the Coast union expands, demands company stop pushing generative AI www.gamesindustry.biz/wizards-of-t...

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Crawford keeps on batting beautifully for games workers rights ✊

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

I am so goddamn proud of my pal who is now officially a WOMAN IN GAMES 🔥🔥🔥

One of the annoying little quirks of my brain is that I instantly remember which points on a compass are North, East, and South, but for West I always have to go through the other three in clockwise order before getting to it and going “oh yeah, it’s left”

Not with bombs, I hope? I know that’s your usual fare, Netanyahu…

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

i feel like cookie monster is obsessed with cookies. hell, that’s probably how he got his name

OKAY FINE YOU CAN HAVE A CHURU

Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn waves a Palestinian flag on stage while urging fans to speak out for Gaza: “Don’t forget this—ever. Stand your position. Don’t ever be neutral.”

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I don’t like where this train is heading…

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