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jumppunchkick.bsky.social @jumppunchkick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Come to Respawn ESports Centre in Wellington this Friday 24th and check these up'n'coming games. Also, they do a mean burger too... Support local business! #nzgamedev

Dream Team Supreme 🤖 🧪 Wishlist Now!@big-adventure.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This Friday at 6pm: It's the Wellington Game Review!!! Come join @kiwisshouldfly.bsky.social @jumppunchkick.bsky.social @stormcloak.games and more to play games at the Respawn Esports Centre.

Hit Points by Nathan Brown @hitpoints.bsky.social · 3mo ago

had enough, wrote some stuff newsletter.hitpoints.co/385-fallout/

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Hit Points by Nathan Brown @hitpoints.bsky.social · 8mo ago

On Phil Spencer newsletter.hitpoints.co/362-dank-spe...

Throughout it all, even when things went bad, Spencer clearly understood games as a medium, a profession, and a business. Having an Actual Game Guy at the top of a big gaming company is far rarer than it should be, and while there was a lot of facade to Spencer — particularly towards the end, when he used faux-candour and his gaming credentials to try to mask the godawful shitfest he had spawned — I imagine this is the aspect of him we will come to miss the most. Heartening though it is to at last see a woman in the big chair in this most historically blokey of industries, I do not see much in Asha Sharma’s track record to suggest things are about to get better. (And that’s before we get into all the birthrater stuff.)

So, yeah. Phil was a good bloke, and he did some good stuff. I believe his heart was in the right place right up until the end — but unfortunately for him, and the rest of us, Microsoft these days is no place for hearts. Let’s have a quick look at the three big moments where, to my mind, it all went wrong for Phil Spencer.

Hit Points by Nathan Brown @hitpoints.bsky.social · 8mo ago

On Bluepoint newsletter.hitpoints.co/361-pointless/

With new blockbusters taking longer and costing more than ever to make, and nostalgia never a more powerful currency, shuttering a proven specialist in remakes and remasters is frankly insane. Casting out a team of such deep technical expertise and, more crucially, such broad institutional knowledge — Bluepoint doesn’t just know its own tools and technology, but also those of the studios whose games it has modernised, from Sony Santa Monica to Naughty Dog, Team Ico to FromSoftware — is simply inexplicable. Pretending there’s nothing for Bluepoint to work on, when the market for remakes has never been bigger and the long-rumoured, widely coveted Bloodborne remake has reached Shenmue 3 levels of mythicism, is unbelievable. Everything about this decision, from top to bottom and viewed from any and every angle, is ridiculous, baffling, an affront.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · last yr.

Donate to my campaign to make Laura Loomer’s day worse: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-bluesky

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · last yr.

This is your friendly reminder that generative A.I. is not "intelligence" and it's not the "wave of the future." No. Large Language Models (LLMs) are super-expensive bullshit machines that suck up a fuck-ton of stolen data, including private info and creative content, in order to badly mimic it.

Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · last yr.

I would argue Docker holds the crown for the fastest technology ever standardized. In less than two years we saw Docker move beyond the hype, into production, and influence the roadmap of almost every tech company.

steve o’grady@sogrady.org · last yr.

i’ve been in this business for a bit and i’m pretty sure i’ve never seen a technology standardized as quickly as MCP

𝑨𝑴𝑰𝑮𝑨𝑽𝑰𝑺𝑰𝑶𝑵 @amiga.vision · last yr.

3D Demo 3 by Lemon, released at @revision-party.bsky.social 2025, captured on AmigaVision setup on MiSTer FPGA using proper scanlines and shadow masks in 1440p/50hz (make sure you watch it in that resolution)! A delightful oldskool style demo, perfectly executed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-jO...

[Demo Scene] 3D Demo 3: The Last Drop / Amiga [MiSTer FPGA]

YouTube video by MiSTer Walrus FPGA

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