Gemma Driscoll
@geeofdee.bsky.social
Award winning yapper talking about video games online and on TV | Presenter, performer, (p)writer for hire | ABC | Views are my own | she/her Email: gemmabdriscoll@gmail.com
There’s community in hating a level so much in a game and then going to reddit and realising you’re not the only one and in fact it is just very bad 😇
OI! This bundle has over 100 games including the extremely very good Arranger. Check it out! it goes to a good cause
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d agoIf you're looking for a direct way to help laid-off devs, check this out https://kotaku.com/itchio-game-developer-hardship-bundle-necrosoft-games-layoffs-unionization-2000720782
Continuing the tradition of not sleeping from October 5-19th 🙌
Sydney Games Festival@sydneygamesfest.bsky.social · last wk.ANNOUNCING Sydney Games Festival! We are community-run game festival, organised by Sydney's various game-making groups. A jam-packed week of events organised a crossed Sydney by local game dev communities in industry, digital and tabletop games. When? 13 Oct - 18 Oct 2026 sydneygamesfestival.org
Doing that classic sick thing where I reminisce about when I wasn’t sick. Oh how time flies, oh how I have squandered such vitality. May the dark claim my soul and the migraine cap calm my demons
Despite enjoying a lot of media/pop culture that have huge fanbases I don’t generally get into fandoms. I do however collect a small pocket of feral freaks in a group chat that swear under an oath of mutually assured destruction and frankly I think that’s the better way to go
This is a very good read and I massively applaud Jessica for writing about an experience that I can imagine would’ve been both incredibly jarring in the moment and nerve wracking in the aftermath
Jessica Cogswell 🌸@jessicogs.bsky.social · 4w agoSo I decided to write about how a particularly heinous incident that happened earlier this year and the ongoing Valko mess has caused me to end my relationship with Love and Deepspace www.gamespot.com/articles/im-...
Earnest call for advice because I feel like asking for help is better than stewing even if it feels silly. I have a really hard time with over explaining/over editing/over correcting myself to the point where I tail spin over getting my wording wrong or being misinterpreted 🧵
My favourite thing to do in Black Flag Resynced so far has been to create spontaneous conga lines of guards coming to investigate the same whistling bush they just watched their buddy disappear into
I want to re-emphasize one part of this Xbox story: Half of the 3,200 cuts are happening today and half are happening in the next 12 months. In other words, even people who survived today's layoffs will have to spend the coming year wondering if they're going to be next.
This has probably been said before but it warrants being said again: In these types of layoffs, what happens to all the juniors? This industry cannot survive without cultivating the talent of our upcoming fresh developers. What cause do they have to pursue a career this volatile?
Xbox has laid off 1,600 staff and divested from four studios. The number of layoffs will rise to around 3,200 over the next 12 months Double Fine and Compulsion Games will go independent, while Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have been sold to undisclosed buyers.
Xbox Announces 3,200 Layoffs, Four Studio Divestments
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wrote that the company was “beginning the most significant restructure in Xbox history.”
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i'm not shocked that the ESA doesn't have anything it wants to say about this, but i'm still irritated about it
Kotaku@kotaku.com · last mo.Sony is putting an end to physical PlayStation games, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the ESA doesn't really have anything to say about it. https://kotaku.com/video-game-industry-esa-digital-ownership-2000712263
Hi! I'm the music composer and sound designer for DREDGE and I am officially looking for new work !! If you've got a cool game that needs audio of any kind. Please reach out. My DM's are open. Here's a few of the cool games I've done the music and sound design for! 🔊🎵 #gamedev #indiegamedev
Another beautiful day at the banging your head into a wall factory
Hi! I'm looking to speak to anyone who is finding ways to resist/work around mandatory AI usage policies at work. Mostly games industry-related, but happy to speak to anyone adjacent as well! Published quotes can of course be anon if desired. DM me here or email at luke@aftermath.site, thanks!
“I really enjoy the freedom of being told “here's what I do want, here's what I don't want: now figure it out.” In real life? Anxiety inducing. In a game though? Very fun. Very challenging.“ @geeofdee.bsky.social has captured the spirit of Burger Bois perfectly here! youtube.com/shorts/FOQ-K...
HOW MANY PICKLES IS TOO MANY? asking for a friend | Burger Bois #gaming #indiegame #cookinggame
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I’m not saying anything new but the pursuit of profit over the fostering of talent just to ingest as many studios as possible, hold them under the thumb and then cut them loose- it’s unspeakably frustrating to watch no lesson be learned and the machine keep churning
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off. Lots still in flux as many studios remain unsure about what's happening. Here's the latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I hadn’t hit my head against the wall today so this was a good reminder
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: Xbox is planning major layoffs next month, Bloomberg has learned, as new CEO Asha Sharma confronts a bleak picture and plans what she calls a "reset" of the business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
We're excited to announce our Frosty Games Fest Bundle featuring 11 ANZ-made games in support of @msf.org; a humanitarian organisation delivering emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion, & disasters ❤️🩹 Grab the bundle: www.humblebundle.com/games/frosty...
Yay for TWAU2 but I keep falling for ‘this game series is famous and also hasn’t had an update in a while’ thinking it’s MASS EFFECT
Anyone else thought Lucy said ‘delete in your ass’ or was that just me?
Another Summer Game Fest, another year of stapling the ‘maybe this year it’ll be Mass Effect 5’ hat to my big idiot noggin
Had a lovely fan interaction with a family after the Masters of the Universe early screening tonight and I’m only now realising they definitely heard me yell ‘now kiss’ at He-Man and Skeletor
I voiced over this lovely script written by Eric and in the process realised I’d been saying a lot of word incorrectly my whole life
SUPERJUMP@superjumpmagazine.com · 2mo agoHello, friends! Our latest video essay about the artists who influenced #SilentHill2 is now live on YouTube. Huge thanks to the incredible team behind this one: Author: Eric Shattuck Video Editor: @nomibelle.bsky.social Narration and Gameplay: @geeofdee.bsky.social