I actually watched the movie recently, what an intro. 😀
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I actually watched the movie recently, what an intro. 😀
Thanks to @retroready.bsky.social, who managed to convince me earlier this year to write reviews again, I got the opportunity to try a piece of hardware I had been interested in since it was first announced. You can read my findings, in Dutch, here: retroready.nl/2025/09/02/s...
Congrats! I am sure you're going to do amazing things with the wonderful people there! 🎉
Happy Labor Day! Remember: AI “art” is labor theft. Support human artists!
WATCH & SUBSCRIBE! 🥰 youtu.be/oMke8X0f7RM?...
BLUESKY! My sitcom THE COMIC SHOP is out on YouTube! It’s about a struggling, Black-owned LA comic store, made 100% independently with heart. We’re bringing back Awkward Black Girl, The Guild & other indie YouTube classics. Ep 1 is live—share & HELP US FIND OUR AUDIENCE! 🙇🏾♀️📺
For my fellow colleagues working in the Dutch game sector and interested in game development & design, the Stimuleringsfonds has a call for funding proposals you might be interested in: www.stimuleringsfonds.nl/en/grants/op...
Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Please add alt text to your images - it only takes a moment, but can make a world of difference It's not just useful for non-sighted people, it also helps anyone that doesn't understand or recognize the image If you find yourself forgetting, Bluesky has a setting to remind you
Artificial ‘intelligence’ is owned and run by the least intelligent, least imaginative, most short-sighted, broken, greedy, inhumane pricks on the planet.
Happy Billie Joe Armstrong Hibernation Day! ❤️
I've been calling for game developers to unionize against crunch and terrible practices for a long time now. Perhaps close to two decades. To actually see major studios under massive publishers getting together and do it is fucking amazing these days. Took them long enough to see the need!
reminder that MasterCard and VISA are very okay with processing payments for guns and bullets, just not a video game where two fictional people fuck.
Haha, it's a term also used in Digimon, yeah. 😆
And sticking with the SEGA theme for today. Grab this incredible beat-em-up today! It's one of the best modern versions of the genre. 🤩
Oooh, I like the idea of using the Digiverse stuff to add crossovers from other games. ❤️ Dare I ask for museum exhibits from Like A Dragon?
Well... I just realized. It's Thursday. I don't know why I had the idea that it was already Friday in my head, for THE ENTIRE DAY. 😅 Anyway, it's out the 29, tomorrow! You can still get the Digital Deluxe Edition with advanced access though. And fun goodies.
Shinobi: Art of Vengeance is fully out today and all I can say for now is: Check. It. Out! If you're not sure, try the demo. Right now, it's time to dance! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUNx...
My team is growing again! We work on the official conversions for a lot of your favourite games, and this is entry-level. Great to fill out your freelance calendar 👀
My fellow authors outside the US! My brethren! Behold and rejoice, for it seems we can *also* sue Anthropic.
Well this is it. I was let go from Crystal Dynamics as Perfect Dark was cancelled. I am now out of a job. I genuinely dont know what to do at this moment but to frantically apply for as many jobs that are applicable. If anyone needs a Senior Environment Artist of 10+ years, please let me know.
Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY. Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.
A short while back the peeps at @retroready.bsky.social and I visited a fairly unique location in the city of Almere here in The Netherlands. Wesley, the site's owner wrote about our visit to a place where training for e-sports and having fun are combined pretty well. retroready.nl/2025/08/27/g...
Big opportunity for someone with a strong games media background:
🚨There is a secret episode of Game Changer out now on Dropout -- the one @samreich.bsky.social doesn't want you to see! Go watch it now before he demands it needs to be taken down! It's the one we've all been waiting for!!! #GameChanger
Oh damn! Surprise GAME CHANGER FINALE! NOT A DRILL! AND IT IS HILARIOUS! Thanks @dropout.tv !!!
one very real, concrete way to help feed Gaza right now is through donating to World Central Kitchen
Hah! The first series I thought of when I read that. Of course, Trigun is my all-time favorite manga and anime series and I remember downloading all the episodes the day we got cable internet back in 2000 or 2001. ^_^
Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.
Oh yeah, I totally get why you'd want that for online games. I further agree with you with it just being a shiny cool techy fidget device. Such a shame about the "AI" stuff, that immediately puts me off when it is used that way.
Ugh, disappointing when they do that. The idea behind the product is cool. Although rolling the dice themselves just can not be beaten. 🙂
Now I am curious to learn which crowdfunding campaign it is.
Definitely. :) Aaaand, I joined the playtest. Turns out, it was announced 6 days ago and the playtest started 2 days ago on Steam. Totally missed that somehow.
Oh no @playstack.com is now officially out to ruin me. I was fine with their Balatro release considering I don't really care for poker. But this... This will actually suck up all my time I'm afraid... Don't do this to me... Please... 😜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy1F...
A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
When that's done, what are the chances of a Sentinel Returns TTRPG as a follow-up?
In the wake of SAG-AFTRA reaching a tentative video game deal, I spoke with Jennifer Hale, Cissy Jones, Carin Gilfry, and Michael Scott about how AI has impacted the underappreciated art of voice matching.
I’ve been using it for Spanish since this past winter, and the decline in quality since the inclusion of AI is striking. The things it’s teaching me make no sense anymore. As my best friend put it, “Duolingo’s goal is not to teach you a language, but to keep you using Duolingo.”
Can't share more than this, but I did get a review key for @sega-west.bsky.social and @lizardcube.bsky.social's new #Shinobi title. I can't implore people enough at this point to check out the demo ASAP. Review to follow!
There's a gripping film that can be made out of this, I am sure. 😂
DEADFORD CALLING! Our Steam page is finally up! Smash that "Wishlist" button for Grasshopper and get ready to GO! #RomeoIsADeadMan #RiaDM store.steampowered.com/app/3050900/RO…
Done!
In hindsight, we pretty much dodged a bullet (or laserbeam) with Transformers Generation 1. The idea Marvel Productions had was way too much like the Hanna Barbera stuff and would've bombed hard at that time. Looking quaint now, I am glad we got the cartoon we have now. youtu.be/2J5ULDssAak
SPEAK UP!!! WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER FRICKIN SOCIAL TO NUKE NSFW CONTENT ONCE THEY GOT ENOUGH USERS! CENSORSHIP ALWAYS LEAD TO BANNING QUEER, BPOC, DISABLED PPL IMPORTANT CONTENT NEXT!
This is a Tom Hall appreciation post. The producer, director, and creative force behind Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Rise of the Triad, and more. Without him, the gaming world wouldn’t be the same.
3 yrs ago I was developing a Bloodshot/Ninjak story, & gonna toot my own horn for a second: it was fucking good. Went thru multiple revisions due to the ever-changing minds of the bosses at Valiant. All while my dog was dying. Here’s why I know they will be heavy-handed with edits if they want 1/x
I have open commissions again btw! Open for projects too!
Thanks, will keep that in mind. LootCrate is still around in a somewhat different from. NECA, of the high quality action figures, acquired them after they went bankrupt in 2019 and is now running it.
Ah, I did not know that. My bad. It said sold.
Now remember: You can bankroll a genocide against us We cannot wish ill upon you for doing so I’m certain this will have no overwhelmingly dire ramifications for us. No way no how. Reinstate Jessie Gender.
Follow up. Learned about Save Now from Matt Kindt and Tomás Giorello, and that one now has my attention as well. Survive from Robert Venditti and Doug Braithwaite is also on my radar. Dang, I need to pick up some more comics from Bad Idea now. 😆
I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
With the game releasing in just 33 days (!!), here's a few new screenshots while you wait! #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #indiedev
Really enjoyed the demo, so I am looking forward to this and will pick it up when I can.
Planet Death has done really well too, with #0 selling over 655,000 copies. It helps that it's written by Derek Kolstadt, of John Wick fame and has some great art by Tomás Giorello and Dave Stewart. I might have to start picking that one up now that I've looked into what they're doing these days.
I honestly haven't kept up to date with Bad Idea either. I know Dinesh is good people, but I was scratching my head about their marketing too. They're still putting out comics though, so they're surviving. Cul-De-Sac is their current big release. Which does sound interesting.
It was great indeed when it was brought back by Dinesh Shamdasani and Jason Kothari, who then lost the company due to shenanigans by DMG Entertainment. The run from 2012 to 2018 was really good and had great writers. From the takeover by DMG in 2018, things went downhill fast. And here we are.
Wait, so you're telling me now, at this point in time, in this year, that there were no translation errors? *shockedpikachuface.jpg. I clocked that guy immediately when I saw the shit in those panels. And I knew the Alien Books excuse was bullshit too.
Oooohh, that's an idea for a game. Body Horror Football! 😀
Fucking Youtube doing something without asking any permission. Because of course. Fuck this shit. youtu.be/86nhP8tvbLY
LOOK WHAT I GONE AND DONE Trying to make the ARTOBOT Art Book available as widely as I can, so I set up a Ko-Fi for you to grab a PDF of the 80-page sucker! The hardcopy was £20/€25 so I'm making the digital edition €14 (or higher if you want)! Let's see how it goes! ko-fi.com/nickrocheart...
Amazing art! Strange that I wasn't following you before.
we've been sounding the alarm about Meta's roleplay chatbots for a while now. they're irresponsible and dangerous. Meta barely cares www.404media.co/instagram-ai...
I loved Batman: The Animated Series, and Batman Beyond was great too. I am all for a brand new Beyond series.
That's awesome!
CALL IT WHAT IT IS! A WAR CRIME! Stop it with the weak reporting. Do your actual job. Once more: WAR. CRIME. That should be your headline!
Nobody wants to talk about it but my whole life has been a corporate psyop shifting the burden of saving our burning planet onto me, the consumer trapped in consumerism, when the reality is that my lifetime of recycling is negated by one private flight by Elon Musk, Bernie Sanders, or Taylor Swift.
What goes into making an animation in the game? How do we go from idea to in-game animations? A thread, using our new farmer model as example 🧵 #godot #gamedev #indiegamedev #animation #blender
Adding to the “what is Criminal Law?” discussion for day one of classes.
If you're a Canadian author looking to search the Books3 or LibGen DBs for the class action suit, here are gift links to the search tools on The Atlantic. You should have full access. Books3 search: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... LibGen search: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
In any kind of a sensible world, every other federal employee union would walk out in solidarity.
Them... Not time... Also, proposes. Sjeez, I think I broke my brain for a bit with that facepalm... 😅
I read a few of time and by the fourth I did an actual facepalm. What Mamdani propoces is a more socialist, and progressive direction of capitalism, not fucking communism. These people are all idiots, every single one of them.
I... Do they even know what actual socialism is? Every single one of them compares it to the corrupt form of communism that Stalin and his cronies wanted. Which was more akin to a dictatorship of course. True brainrot right there... 🤦♂️
Earlier today my (Dutch) review for @ritualofraven.bsky.social came online. The game launched yesterday and I've been playing it for a bit now. I don't play farming sims a lot, but I can tell you that I really enjoyed this one. Love the tarot card/programming gameplay. retroready.nl/2025/08/08/r...
If you haven't played Old Skies yet, go do it!
The queries have started about “What if I only used a little bit of AI for my story submission.” The answer is, fuck AI. Uncanny Magazine doesn't want your story. There is no grey area here. Send us a story using AI for any aspect, it will be auto-rejected and you will be banned. Period.
I am not gonna lie, I got a review code, but I would've paid the 18 Euros for it hands down. And I am not even the best at shmups. But this game just looks gorgeous, and the music top notch!
I hope that everyone who sees this and learns about the situation will try and support Koshiro in the best way. Buy buying this wonderful horizontal shooter made with love. And a shitton of skill, because it looks gorgeous. It was entirely made on a Mega Drive! store.steampowered.com/app/3597580/...
You know what absolutely sucks. Seeing so-called "fans" of a game trying to justify them pirating a game because they managed to get the hold of the ROM, even though the game is only officially available through Steam at the moment. Yuzo Koshiro and everyone who worked on Earthion deserved better.
store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/oo Öoo is available now YAAAAAAAS
😄 Yeah, that was the biggest downside to mode7 indeed. And it's not like SEGA's "Super Scaler" was much better. You're right. By all means, continue your trickery. 😀
Release date! Release date! As announced this morning in ~Indie World Japan~ Demonschool is coming September 3rd! We have been working really hard on this. We hope you will enjoy it.
I've been looking forward to this game since it was first announced. Love the SRW titles. Shame we're not getting an actual physical release here in Europe.
Wait, what? A repeating GIF? How dare you commit such trickery! That is not what I want in MY games! No visual tricks allowed! 😜 Looks incredible though! Love the style. ^_^
That probably would've looked extremely weird if you'd actually do that. Please don't do that. 😜
Promise Mascot Agency ‘Prepare to Grind’ update now available Kaizen Game Works has released the "Prepare to Grind" update for "open-world mascot management crime drama" game Promise Mascot Agency, the developer announced. It adds a new truck upgrade, mascot time trials, Pinky nails, Mascot…
The world of techbros is filled with sexist and racist assholes who are using words that are much, much worse. These same (usually far right) techbros always wanted to take over public broadcast stuff, and unfortunately it seems that is going to be the case. So yeah, I am worried.
Little bit more context. People on TikTok and other social media have started to use "clanker" to make fun of terrible "AI" and robots. Mostly the things designed to take away (creative) human's jobs. What's fucked up is that as a supposed slur, this is benign AF.
I worry for @npr.org. Not only are they trying to make the word "clanker" a pejorative, but the always wonderful Tiny Desk is now sponsored by some crap "AI" company founded by failed musicians. I get they need money, but do better. Fun fact: clanker comes from the animated Star Wars shows.
That stood out to me as well. It definitely didn't go down the way she's making it out to be.
Soooo, basically most of the women in my country are trans? 🤦♂️ Can we please stop with the fucked up "beauty" standards that have been put on women? She can't be too short, she can't be too tall. She can't look too muscular. The fuck is wrong with people?
ok, i had a pretty big editing contract fall through today. luckily, their loss is your gain! i'm an IGF-nominated editor and writer, and the games i've worked on have been very well received. let's talk about what i could do to help your team tell the story you want to tell! email in my pin 💛
Can't wait to play this free update for #TerraNil, the amazing, relaxing, and wonderful looking eco-puzzle game from @freelives.bsky.social. With the free Heatwave update we are getting a new arid region, complete with new gameplay elements and an awesome photography update. youtu.be/KTgtmEaOtK0
I love @jasonkoebler.bsky.social take on AI in journalism discussed on the @404media.co podcast. "If AI is so transformative here, show me the reporters publishing more high quality pieces with AI that weren't doing it before." (paraphrasing) This is the right take. We need proof, not hype.
Miles away. The only two words needed now and everyone knows exactly what I mean. Called this from the moment the Steam shit hit the news. It's never about just porn or nudity. Anything that is diverse or has other cultures will be targeted. Fucking racist pieces of shit behind this.