🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐉𝐀𝐌 2026 - 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 Thank you to everybody who has submitted to our game jam with @entrylvldev.bsky.social! Judging will close this week. 🔗 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒: itch.io/jam/pride-ga...

Asylum - IGDA x ENTRY LVL Pride Game Jam 2026

A game jam from 2026-05-02 to 2026-07-20 hosted by gmcguinness, FirePuff, Aymi, Stacey ᐠ( ᐛ )ᐟ 𖹭.ᐟ & Knightsicle. Asylum - IGDA x ENTRY LVL Pride Game Jam 2026 Asylum - IGDA x ENTRY LVL Pride Game Jam...

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Congratulations, Homer. You've finally achieved pop culture relevance.

The Odyssey is coming to Fortnite

YouTube video by Fortnite

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Return of the ‘greybeards’: AI backfired – so Ford had to rehire humans

Return of the ‘greybeards’: AI backfired – so Ford had to rehire humans

The US motor company found that the hundreds of AI cameras being used for design and manufacturing checks were prone to pitfalls

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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!

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I’m here, everybody is (supposedly) queer at the @gaymingmag.bsky.social @gaymingfoundation.bsky.social awards!! 🔥🔥🔥

Have a safe and happy Pride, friends! And, as ever:

✨🏳️‍🌈 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 🏳️‍🌈✨ Excited to announce that our game jam and portfolio review are live!! 🔥 Links below 🔥 👏 Thank you all for your continued support and looking forward to seeing all of your work! 👏

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Thank you so much to @gaymingmag.bsky.social for featuring our Game Jam and Portfolio Review events!!! Honour to be mentioned and thanks for the kind words 🔥

IGDA LGBTQ+ SIG Portfolio Review returns in 2026 — here's how to get involved - Gayming Magazine

The IGDA LGBTQ+ SIG Portfolio Review is back for its second year offering a valuable and career boosting resource.

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17,517 people homeless. 5,571 of them children That’s not normal and we'll never accept it as such despite Gov pushing for the normalisation of this crisis Numbers for homeless children have doubled since FF/FG came together in 2020 Social Democrats are calling for a ban on no fault evictions

Hey come check out the game jam that we're organising, theme of Asylum!. ✨ Link: itch.io/jam/pride-ga... ✨ 𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗭𝗘𝗥𝗦: @greagoir.bsky.social, @aymi.bsky.social, @knightsicle.bsky.social, @theblitchwitch.bsky.social 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗢𝗥𝗦: @aapiingaming.bsky.social, @igda.org #asylum26 #gamejam #pride

Asylum - IGDA x ENTRY LVL Pride Game Jam 2026

A game jam from 2026-05-02 to 2026-07-13 hosted by gmcguinness, FirePuff, Aymi, Stacey ᐠ( ᐛ )ᐟ 𖹭.ᐟ & Knightsicle. Asylum - IGDA x ENTRY LVL Pride Game Jam 2026 Asylum - IGDA x ENTRY LVL Pride Game Jam...

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That's me! I'll be the one leading the co-working/drop-in session! Come say hi!! ...I'm so, so lonely...

IGDA LGBTQ+ SIG@lgbtsig.bsky.social · 4mo ago

With everything going on in the SIG, our supreme leader @greagoir.bsky.social will be running a co-working/drop in session on Friday in our Discord server! Come along if you feel like vibing/complaining 🙌 🔗 Discord: discord.gg/KEqrzqGr Join/follow for more #asylum26 jam and portfolio review info ✨

Substack up about #abbeyyung, her battles with #goop and the difficult fight against (alleged) disinformation. TLDR: The battle against ‘clean beauty’ is incredibly time-consuming open.substack.com/pub/gmcguinn... #media #literacy #analysis #culture

Abbey Yung's Goop Response is a Lesson in How to Tackle Disinformation

That word 'clean' is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, Gwenyth

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Check out the game jam we have running together!! 🔗 itch.io/jam/pride-ga... #asylum26

Asylum - IGDA x ENTRY LVL Pride Game Jam 2026

A game jam from 2026-05-02 to 2026-07-13 hosted by gmcguinness, Aymi, Theblitchwitch & Knightsicle. Asylum - IGDA x ENTRY LVL Pride Game Jam 2026 Asylum - IGDA x ENTRY LVL Pride Game Jam 2026 is a 2 m...

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IGDA LGBTQ+ SIG@lgbtsig.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We couldn’t be more stoked to be hosting this for you all, and a huge thank you to our collaborators for joining us on this jam! @greagoir.bsky.social, @theblitchwitch.bsky.social, @aymi.bsky.social, @entrylvldev.bsky.social, @igda.org, @lgbtsig.bsky.social, @aapiingaming.bsky.social

For anybody interested, I finally started a Substack. Here's the first article about sexy sexy Leon Kennedy ala RE: Requiem. TLDR: To nobody's surprise, centring female desire benefits everybody (especially the modders). open.substack.com/pub/gmcguinn... #rereqiuem #leonkennedy #videogame #media

The Feminine Desire to Mod Leon Kennedy

Resident Evil Requiem and mastering character design for the female gaze.

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Excellent news on the copyright front! This was going to be so dangerous as a precedent, I image a lot of people are breathing easy... ❤️

IGN@ign.com · 4mo ago

The USPTO has rejected Nintendo’s controversial 'summon character and let it fight' Pokémon patent, after it was heavily criticized by IP lawyers last year. https://bit.ly/4chcpLk

This excellent long read about what DOGE was and how it worked also makes a convincing case that DOGE was the endpoint of GamerGate: the blanket application of video game and coding rules and principles (eg domination, efficiency) to real humans and real politics www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government

The long read: Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people

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My book, Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun, is out next February! It is a lively cultural history of the world's most beloved video game company, drawing from 20 years' worth of reporting and interviews. Pre-order here: linktr.ee/super_nintendo

SIGN OUR BOYCOTT XBOX PLEDGE: We are asking gamers, game workers, streamers & journalists to join us in boycotting & divesting from Xbox, to force Microsoft to end its complicity in the genocide of Palestinians. We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com

Thanks to @officialgdc.bsky.social and @igda.org for having me at GDC, speaking on behalf of @lgbtsig.bsky.social on developing supports for queer game developers. The TLDR is join a ✨union✨

Very excited to announce that my first academic article is now published, titled “Becoming the Gay Pig: a Mapping of Queer Entanglements with Disease and Monstrosity in Bloodborne” ✨ revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ES...

You can play a bunch of video games in Irish aftermath.site/games-from-ire...

really dig this from mikhail, illustrates why I push back against people who would like marathon to be some other kind of game. form follows function! the narrative themes and gameplay genre inform one another! it is a work with a coherent vision!

Mikhail Klimentov@leadergrev.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Wrote about contractors. www.readergrev.com/p/marathon-i...

Yessss!!!!

Sealbee Games@sealbeegames.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Spend it finding ways to protect your friends and neighbors, then check out Games from Ireland at @imirt.bsky.social and play Bean Sidhe when you're ready to relax 🇮🇪 #gamedev #indiegames store.steampowered.com/app/3694740/...

Hullabaloo & howdy-doo! I'm Stacey—SMM + CM @entrylvldev.bsky.social & CM @sealbeegames.bsky.social! 🤓🩷 A few tidbits: #AuDHD cat lover, whimsy wench & your biggest cheerleader. I *love* building supportive communities where folks feel right at home. ꒰ #whatagamedevlookslike ⋮ #lookingforwork ⬇️ ꒱

Highlighting the work of @codecwa.bsky.social and @videogameworkers.bsky.social in the lead-up to #GDC 🙌

CALLING ALL LGBTQ GAME DEVELOPERS! We're excited to reveal that we're hosting the Gayming Pride Parade at Summer Game Fest - the first ever, official LGBTQ+ Summer Game Fest stream. Submissions are now open to have your game featured in the stream, head to gaymingfoundation.org/prideatsgf/

🎮 Support the @igdafoundation.org & get your game played live! We've partnered with streamer @airiesummer.com for a charity campaign to benefit the IGDA Foundation! Donate today: https://loom.ly/N7Vcktg

My interview with @sealbeegames.bsky.social is up now! Thank you so much @saltyqueer.bsky.social for talking with me for the magazine and the fabulous @theblitchwitch.bsky.social for getting us together!! ❤️❤️❤️

Gayming Magazine@gaymingmag.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Trans history and modern day activism meets Irish folklore in Bean Sidhe. 🕯️🏳️‍⚧️ A defiant, beautiful look at resistance and ancestry from the queer team at Sealbee Games. ⚔️ Ready to hear the banshee's wail? buff.ly/VBGNQ9W #BeanSidhe #TransHistory #IndieDev #Gaymer