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Luiza Diniz Senior game artist and co-founder at @ragdollfrog.bsky.social | IGDA F Next Gen Leader | prev: senior 3D artist at Timberline Studio https://linktr.ee/luluu_land
Acabamos com as bets no Brasil. As bets estão destruindo a renda das famílias, afetando a saúde mental e levando sofrimento para dentro de casa. Por isso, tomamos uma decisão firme, de fazer o que tem que ser feito: acabar com as bets.
In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press
YouTube video by People Make Games
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Folding Obsidian into Bethesda really demonstrates how interchangeable we all are to the money people. Who cares about studio culture or identity, right? If I put tuna on a meatball sub I can eat two sandwiches at once.
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d agoXbox is laying off 268 people today across Halo Studios, first-party, and management and Ninja Theory is entering consultation as the division's big "reset" continues. https://kotaku.com/xbox-reset-268-laid-off-ninja-theory-halo-activision-2000736434
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 6d agoThe Information: 'Xbox is planning to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff reduction this year, according to someone briefed on the plans. The Microsoft-owned firm also plans to consolidate several of its game studios, this person said.'
After laying off most of the Destiny team, Bungie decides that Destiny is "foundational" to its future: aftermath.site/destiny-conten...
Oh! A new dystopian business model just unlocked! We're now getting offers to sell our games for AI training data. 🙄
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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if the game industry is going to keep using the slop machine to make slop for us, I will simply cease buying games. I have a library of non-slopmade games stretching back decades.
Mas é o futuro, quem não se adaptar vai ficar para trás, num sei o que, num sei que lá
Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · last wk.Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2
🚨URGENTE! Investigação do Ministério Publico aponta que 12 de 22 empresas do transporte coletivo de São Paulo são controladas pelo PCC. Sabe quem foi alvo da operação? Milton Leite, braço político da facção e aliado de Ricardo Nunes e Tarcísio de Freitas.
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Heya folks! 💢💢 We're hard at work preparing some new stuff to show, and this week we're sharing a timelapse for the ingame portrait of our default enemy (a goon, if you will) alongside a WIP version of one of our soundtrack pieces! Hope y'all have a great week! 👊💢💢 #gamedev #beatemup #indiegames
Today, we celebrate the seventh anniversary of Blasphemous. 🖤 Seven years of penance, made possible by your unwavering devotion.
Sony argued that "reasonable consumers" already know they don't really own the digital goods they paid for. The Consumer Rights wiki has now made a list collecting more than 30 examples where Sony told customers they do, in fact, own the digital games they paid for. https://bit.ly/4gNi4Ls
call me cynical but i don't know that launching a fellowship for new people entering the industry is going to help address the fundamental problems of longevity and sustainability in existing studios
🔓 Decryption in progress... Pin goblins, this one's for you 👀 Reveal #2: our enamel pin, made for anyone who loves collecting pins (even if you have nowhere to put them) 15💙 & 15🔁 to unlock what's next! #gdocexpo
Damn, you've got to imagine Rockstar never envisioned a speech like this one happening when they fired those 34 workers, huh?
Austin Kelmore@austinkelmore.com · 2w agoClosing out the rally, @nershly.bsky.social beautifully speaks about her experience being fired by Rockstar and how they try to use fear.