Company goes public? Fired. Company goes private? believe it or not, also fired
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · yesterdayEA's annual Ebitda is around $1.5 billion, which should be enough to service the interest payments. But the publisher has told debt investors that it will cut $700 million in annual costs including $170 million in "organizational efficiencies," per Bloomberg. In other words: mass layoffs
Behind every "solo dev success story" is usually a partner working 9-5 for years to pay the bills.
Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 4w agogame devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?
"Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump and paid its CEO $96 million," Sanders said. "This year, it's raising the price of an Xbox by $150 and eliminating 3,200 jobs. Please don't tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down."
Bernie Sanders is mad about the Xbox layoffs
The senator from Vermont is pretty chapped about the price hikes, too.
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Localisation is far more difficult than the public realises. It requires art, design, engineering, translation, and production logistics have to all align in the right way to ship something good. It is not something you can slap in at the end.
Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 4w agogame devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?
Defold 1.13.0 has been released! 🥳 This is a huge release with a longer beta period, bringing a lot to explore: 💪 Morph Targets (aka Blend Shapes) support for 3D 📦New Box2D scripting APIs with joints, chains, etc 💨 Frustum culling for Particle FX 📱 Vulkan as the default graphics API on Android
Bevy 0.19 is out now! It features Next Generation Scenes, Render Bigger Scenes Faster, Contact Shadows, More Feathers Widgets, Text Input, Richer Text, App Settings, Post Processing Effects, Improved Skinned Mesh Culling, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-19
Bevy 0.19
Thanks to 261 contributors, 1185 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.19 release on crates.…
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Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.
This is depressing... www.eurogamer.net/compulsion-d...
Microsoft reportedly negotiating closures of multiple Xbox studios, including Psychonauts' Double Fine, South of Midnight's Compulsion and Hellblade's Ninja Theory
The expected Xbox restructuring and lay-offs reportedly include potential closures for three well known games studios.
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I'm usually a rational person, but not when it comes to Zelda and, specifically, Ocarina. Shoot it into my veins, now! Also... 2026? That was the most surprising part of this announcement, tbh.
Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel's violations of human rights. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/
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Huge result here - the idea that social platforms can be defective products that cause harm is going to send shockwaves through an industry that has claimed essentially blanket protection from liability by saying everything is speech
Lauren Feiner@laurenfeiner.bsky.social · 4mo agoWow - huge win across the board for plaintiff Kaley G.M. in the landmark social media addiction case against Meta and YouTube. On the heels of Meta's loss in New Mexico just the day before. www.theverge.com/policy/90065...
Meta misled users about its products’ safety, jury decides www.theverge.com/policy/89991...
Meta misled users about its products’ safety, jury decides
The jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million in penalties.
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I saw someone describe DLSS5 as "Incel Shading" and I am furious at how good a joke that is.
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...
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Discord was going to use age verification that literally pipes your information straight to the fascist US government, until hackers exposed it. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.” www.therage.co/persona-age-...
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
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We’ll be refreshing our website, so we're looking for games for our showcase! ✨ If you have a game #MadeWithDefold and would like it to be featured, please reach out to us! 🧡💙
Predator: Badlands is, hands-down, the best Star Wars movie I've watched in years.
“Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.”
C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · 6mo agoI literally saw a post two weeks back in which a guy with two jobs was flagellating himself because he was short on rent, lamenting that had he donated plasma more, maybe his rent would be on time. This system is deeply fucked. Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
My stance on game pricing is that we need to tax the rich
