EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

The U.S. publisher has been taken private in a deal worth $55 billion.

gamedeveloper.com

Useful new tool for #Interrail travellers in Finland: venaarauhassa.fi shows how seats are occupied in VR operated trains, station by station. Shows also the night train sleeper beds! Only in Finnish, but should be easy enough to navigate.

"Eli olemme taas kerran nähneet esimerkin siitä, kuinka Euroopan ulkopuoliset valtiot käyttävät siirtolaisuutta poliittisena kiristyskeinona, koska ne tietävät minkälaisen tunnereaktion tämä eurooppalaisissa oikeistopopulisteissa herättää". #ceuta --> www.facebook.com/share/p/1H1E...

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

🌈 2010. 🎶 Erasure's Always plays as you mash Z, chasing that high score 🏆 and your best sparkly unicorn life 🦄 ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK still runs thanks to preservation & emulation via Ruffle. Flash is gone 👋, but your favorite games don't have to be. 🌐 Play it now! archive.org/details/robo...

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He's only gone and written 2,500 more words about how game devs feel about generative AI. Latest piece quotes around two dozen different people with an indie background. When asked how they feel about gen AI, not one, but two devs responded, "Fuck that shit." www.gamesradar.com/games/it-cre...

"It creates lesser games": Indie game studios are supposed to love generative AI, so why do the 25 devs I spoke to avoid it?

"So it may be slightly faster, and a lot worse, but it's also more expensive? Neat"

gamesradar.com

Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

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Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order

Judge says hacker remains a high risk through his skills and motivation to carry out cyber-crime.

bbc.co.uk

Winter@kernowshark.bsky.social · last mo.

Locking up an autistic kid in a mental hospital for life for leaking a clip of a game is bullshit. Guess I'm never playing a Rockstar game again.

Sellattii vaan, että voitaisiinko palauttaa sen verran perinteisiä arvoja että opeteltaisiin hyviä tapoja keskustelussa ja priorisoitaisiin yleistä resilienssiä hybridivaikuttamista vastaan. PS: jos et koe olevasi sirpaloitunut hetero, tämä sarjakuva ei puhu sinulle, mutta voisit jakaa sen.

Tämä Laitisen kommentti on kyllä paljastava monella tapaa siitä miten Pride nähdään mediassa yhä sellaisena koko perheen mehukesteinä, eikä yhteiskunnan marginaaleissa elävien vähemmistöjen ihmisoikeuksien mielenosoituksena. Värikkäät asut ja tyhjät iskulauseet miellyttävät koska ne ei vaadi mitään.

Kommentti: Pridellä on nyt petrattavaa

Monet Pride-yhteisöihin kytkeytyvistä kohuista ja ylilyönneistä olisivat olleet estettävissä, kirjoittaa Iltalehden toimittaja Silja Laitinen.

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Allowing data centres to use carbon offsets, one of the most useless, divisive and generally unhelpful mechanisms for tackling climate change, would be a ridiculous concession to Big Tech power by the EU 🧵🧵 1/4 www.ft.com/content/2135...

EU weighs weaker data centre climate rules in win for Big Tech

Past proposals for strict rules on renewable energy certificates have been dropped after heavy lobbying, draft shows

ft.com

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

It had to happen one day.

Strict Algorithm LLC@wsstalkback.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Cover for volume one of Reo Yamashita's "Morururu" Ataru is a boy who's got spirit but is hopelessly inept at sports. Until an encounter with the Finnish throwing game of Mölkky changes his life! The first manga depicting Mölkky for veterans and newcomers is here! Runs on Weekly Corocoro.

My beautiful horse. #makeaterriblecomicday2026

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At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

Our team is enjoying the DiGRA 2026 conference in Maynooth! We presented our work on 'Intersectional pleasures and limits of game cultural participation and belonging in Finland' and are also involved in several other presentations and workshops. Our work is funded by the RCF #SuomenAkatemia.

The world’s first trillionaire took away our Ebola response capacity, gave us screwworms, hollowed out our government so he could pay less taxes, and condemned millions of the world’s most vulnerable people to death.

Plague Poems@plaguepoems.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Peliviikko etsii kuvittajaa julisteelle. Mä olen jo yhden piirtänyt, niin välitän vaan tiedoksi teille kaikille muille kuvittajille. Mikäli olet kiinnostunut, lähetä sähköpostia ja esimerkkejä töistäsi osoitteeseen: tommi.tossavainen@kuvi.fi (Altista löytyy alkuperäisen face-postauksen teksti)

The DiGRA Conference 2026 on the theme ‘intersectional pleasures’ will be organised 14–18 June in Maynooth, Ireland. Our research group is well represented at the event – here we have collected a list of the 16 presentations featuring our team members: gameresearchlab.tuni.fi/gamelab-at-d...

Gamelab at DiGRA 2026

The DiGRA 2026 conference on the theme ‘intersectional pleasures’ will be organised 14–18 June in Maynooth, Ireland. Our research group is well represented at the event – here we have c…

gameresearchlab.tuni.fi

Still doing research at Vectorama today. They have robots too! They are from the Educational Consortium OSAO. They can be seen walking around the event, sometimes guiding visitors and doing impromptu dancing shows.

Me: Doing super serious academic research about cultural accessibility and social sustainability of game events Also me: OMG they have nyancats on the floor and they're ANIMATED!!! best event 100% no questions asked

ENDGAME project@endgame-project.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Teemme tutkimusta #Vectorama -tapahtumassa! Tutkijamme @essitai.bsky.social on kentällä: projects.tuni.fi/endgame/news.... Jos olet paikalla, vastaa lyhyeen verkkokyselyymme ja kerro kokemuksesi tapahtumasta! Löydät meidät sisäänkäynnin läheltä FGF:n pisteeltä. Tutkimusta rahoittaa #SuomenAkatemia.

Routledge has now confirmed that the volume we have been working on for some time, Cultural Game Studies: Critical Approaches,will be out on 10 July 2026 and is available for preorder from 19 June 2026. There is a 20 % discount code attached, and there are also review copies (links in comments).

Would love to see more attention given to this! Feels like AI use is far too often attributed to laziness and poor personal morals etc., rather than precarious work, work overload and constant pressure. This said, "work more, work faster, compromise on quality" is a terrible solution.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2mo ago

We’re wringing our hands about how AI is destroying the college essay, scholarship, journalism. But bemoaning the enshittification only goes so far. The important question is: what are the material conditions that drive culture workers (students, scholars, writers) to use AI in the first place?

i need this website to stop shitting it’s diapers over NSFW stuff when the median age in here is fucking 35 like give us a fucking break 💀