So much Kingdom Hearts news before we even get the panel tomorrow. News about an Oswald the Lucky rabbit mini series for his 100th anniversary what a crazy night

Disney finally did it! Finally! Also crazy we still have the KH panel still tomorrow, we got gameplay a trailer announcing Coco in the game and of course the Anime! KH fans are finally eating good tonight!

Stealth40k@stealth40k.bsky.social · 2d ago

Kingdom Hearts Anime Details: - Will air on Disney+ - Nomura and the team at Square Enix are involved - Brand new story - Will expand the universe of Kingdom Hearts - Will celebrate the characters that made Kingdom Hearts what it is

I’m ready to chat, yap and discuss materials and the mentorship! If you have any questions, I’m ready to answer! See you at 9:00am PDT #gameart #gamedev #ue5 #materiald #textureart

Sierra Division 🔜 Gamescom@sierradivision.bsky.social · 6d ago

Do you know what it takes to make materials look real? Find out in our upcoming AMA with SDA Mentor & Principal Material Artist @hughchew.com When: August 11 at 4pm UTC on Discord www.sierradivison.com/discord See you there! #environmentartists #gameart

Excited to officially join @sierradivision.bsky.social as a Material Art Mentor! I'll be helping artists grow their Material Art, shaders, and production workflows through one-on-one mentorship. If you have questions, join us for our AMA Tuesday at 9:00 AM PDT in the Sierra Division Discord!

Sierra Division 🔜 Gamescom@sierradivision.bsky.social · last wk.

We're excited to have Principal Material & Shader Artist @hughchew.com join our Academy! He will be offering a 1:1 Material Art Mentorship, helping you develop both the artistic and technical skills needed to create production-ready materials for games! academy.sierradivision.com/material-art...

40th Anniversary of Metroid

We're excited to have Principal Material & Shader Artist @hughchew.com join our Academy! He will be offering a 1:1 Material Art Mentorship, helping you develop both the artistic and technical skills needed to create production-ready materials for games! academy.sierradivision.com/material-art...

As a life long KH fan, this true. Also, here’s another. These are completely different people.

Daryl Nelson@ragespy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Piss off a KH fan and confuse new players in one (COMPLETELY ACCRUATE) image:

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18

Django Unchained: Jamie Foxx as Django

ALT: Django Unchained: Jamie Foxx as Django

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Chris Vasquez@3xchris.bsky.social · 3w ago

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18

Excited to be speaking with @dinustyempire.bsky.social at **DinCon** this Thursday! I'll be breaking down **Surface Stacking** workflow and live demoing Material Layering: how to build smarter, more modular, production-ready materials in-engine. Hope to see you there! 📺 (www.twitch.tv/dinusty)

Excited to be speaking with @dinustyempire.bsky.social at **DinCon** this Thursday! I'll be breaking down **Surface Stacking** workflow and live demoing Material Layering: how to build smarter, more modular, production-ready materials in-engine. Hope to see you there! 📺 (www.twitch.tv/dinusty)

I’m wearing my most appropriate graphics T-shirt for Advances today

I’ve been slowly recording some raw sessions of me working on this Subway Scene (atleast from the Material side of things) it’s been fun so far making a very small scene based on a lot of reference work I took when I was in NYC earlier this year.

I’ve been slowly recording some raw sessions of me working on this Subway Scene (atleast from the Material side of things) it’s been fun so far making a very small scene based on a lot of reference work I took when I was in NYC earlier this year.

10 years ago I left my job as a Ride Op for The Mummy ride at Universal to join Infinity Ward on Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. That opportunity changed my life. Today I get to build games, teach, and share what I've learned. Thanks to everyone who's been part of the journey. #GameDev #GameArt

I’m surrounded by millennials at the Hillary Duff concert 🎶

This is what happens when business and shareholders run game companies. They cut and cut with realizing they are cutting out the brain and heart of a company or in this case a company, who’s work pushes game engines to where they are today, INCLUDING, Xbox’s own Call of Duty.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · last mo.

An Id Software developer claims it’s been 'nuked into the dirt' and ‘relegated to support studio size’, as 136 layoffs are confirmed at the Doom and Quake studio. vgc.news/news/id-soft...

This Mexico game…

Jjk Jujutsu Kaisen

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I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off

You have canceled more Live Service projects this generation and really put yourself in a hole. Also why continue with making a bunch of Live Service games, that’s not viable. Every gamer has ONE live service game they choose to login continuously, not four. This isn’t like story driven games.

Shinobi602@shinobi602.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sony to continue pursuing live service games despite challenges: "[...]live service games are content that attracts users on a global level, so we want to continue to revitalize the market through both 1st party & 3rd party content" said SIE president Hideaki Nishino ➡️ wccftech.com/playstation-...

I always find it funny when I randomly get added to weird ass lists or randomly blocked by people I've never interacted with. It's a weird rabbit hole to look into. Like when I found out about, clearsky.app and saw that some of the info of my account made me laugh.

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ClearSky - Bringing information closer to you

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Nintendo does Nintendo things. But yeah the main difference is between Nintendo versus the other two is, Nintendo top down focuses on Game Design and Fun…..AND also the fact they don’t have a blood thirty capitalist parent company always looking to widen their shareholders bottom line.

Knoebel 🛬 Gamescom@knoebel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Nintendo raised the base salary for its employees "We maintain salaries at an appropriate level. We believe it is important to ensure that compensation remains at an appropriate standard. For example, we have increased pay, including raising base salaries by 10%" mynintendonews.com/2026/06/26/n...

It’s true, the fact that the bottom line for C-Suite isn’t getting them 100’s of millions and only 10’s of millions they take it out on the work force. Add to the fact that CEO’s are chasing unicorns like Fortnite to make more money and it blowing up spectacularly is also hurting us devs and artists

Alexa Ray Corriea@alexaray.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Between the insane console price hikes during a recession (I said it) where people can't even afford healthcare, and the jettisoning of talent and institutional knowledge in favor of AI slop and more zeroes on the shareholder paycheck, these industry "leaders" should leave. Devs are not the problem.

The final video in my UE5 Lighting Series is live! This one covers Baked Lighting, Lightmaps, Lightmass, GPU Lightmass, optimization, and when to use it over Lumen. youtu.be/tD2kOgZpG1g?... Check out the full series on my YouTube! #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameArt #GameDev

Why Baked Lighting Still Matters in Unreal Engine

YouTube video by Hugh Chew

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We are super excited to announce.... DinCon Digital 2026! 🎉 Over the span of 6 weeks from July 2nd - August 20th, we will be hosting a plethora of talks from some familiar Empire faces, to guests from our Industry, covering all things game art, careers, tooling and production! See you there 👀

Raygun is officially complete, please go take a look at it on my artstation! www.artstation.com/artwork/JwaP0m Also huge thanks to the amazing @soraso0324.bsky.social Who did the original concept art, that inspired me.

Raygun, James Bruner

This project I simply called Raygun! A retro chunky ray gun! This project was inspired when I saw "Space Girl" a piece of concept art by the amazing concept artist Sora Kim. Which was a piece she work...

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Just remember folks, most of the loudest people talking about using AI and AI workflows for Game Development, have no experience working on games or at Game Studios!

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2mo ago

Hollywood agencies are searching Reddit for short stories and ideas that could be turned into movies following the success of 'Backrooms' (via THR)

So UE6 is just….UE5 and UEFN combined? Also with shitty AI tools embroiled in. This miles worse than when they teased UE5 with Nanite, Lumen, World Partition, etc. Also you have the most vague updates for “making content portable” with out telling us how?

I've had quite a few people ask about mentorships lately. If I offered a few spots, what would you want to focus on? Materials, shaders, environment art, portfolios, tech art? Affordability matters, along with recordings, demos, notes, and source files. Interested? Let me know. #GameArt

It’s been a wild day today, a bit of wild news at my work and in the background hearing about what’s currently going on at Xbox, it is insane.