Lisette Titre-Montgomery
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Pronouns: Try/Me CEO Cornerstone Studios @cstoneintstudio Past: Art Director #Psychonauts2 Advisor: @gameheadsoakland Nominations/Awards: @BAFTAGames & @TheGameAwards https://linktr.ee/LisetteTitre?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMT
Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
Pixar's Layoffs Came Days After Receiving a $26 Million Tax Credit. So I Wrote California Officials.
State tax incentives should create and retain jobs for Californians, not subsidize corporate layoffs.
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we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.
Paula Wirth@paulawirth.bsky.social · last wk.Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
video game industry wisdom: never trust a mf in a blazer and a tshirt
The layoffs are getting worse. Devs are suffering. Gamers are suffering. Organizing is the only way to save this industry and the people who make it possible.
New data suggests layoffs will affect 14,259 people by the end of 2026, up 78% from first forecast of the year
"The pace of layoffs is accelerating faster than our models initially predicted"
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Footage from the latest People Make Games video report - 'If Rockstar Meant to Kill the Union, It Didn't Work'. Watch it on Youtube now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4z...
If Rockstar Meant to Kill This Union, It Didn't Work
YouTube video by People Make Games
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Listen to fired Rockstar worker Will Masilane detail how losing his job meant losing the life he had built in Edinburgh, with his girlfriend and his beloved dogs Abby and Lonnie The four of them had made the move to the Scottish capital from Australia two and half years prior.
NEW: A 10K report filed by EA shows company CEO Andrew Wilson earned almost $38.7M in cash and stock awards during the 2026 fiscal year. That’s a significant bump on the $30.6M he netted during FY2025. For context, his base salary for the year was $1.3M.
Did Open Ai become sentient today just to write this cause it couldn’t be more unhuman.
Aura/Moom@moomanibe.bsky.social · last wk.an xbox spokesperson shared the following statement: "don't blame us don't blame us we only managed and wholly owned the company for six full years tell them it's someone else's fault please"
My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
Do you know why today was a good day? I got to write about Jimothy.
Guild Wars 2 Welcomes Internet Sensation Jimothy To The Game
A short-bodied raccoon called Jimothy has taken over the internet, and Guild Wars 2 is happy to add him to the annals of MMO history.
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"Americans travel to Europe, marvel at beautiful, walkable cities with functioning mass transit, come home, then refuse to build any of it" bsky.app/profile/ouij... “While over half of the households in the US want to live in walkable places … less than 8 percent of built environment is walkable”
Americans are hungry for community. So why don’t we have more European-style squares? | CNN
As travel abroad has become common for more Americans, many have enjoyed Europe’s vibrant squares. Why doesn’t the United States have more of that kind of gathering spot and is change afoot?
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The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW: "What We Did On Our Summer Vacation, featuring Rick Steves." We talk with the beloved travel writer and TV host about why Americans love visiting European cities but can't seem to support the things that make them liveable back home. Plus, responsible tourism. thewaroncars.org/2024/09/03/1...
The narrator in this is a dapper humanoid wolf played by Sting and if that doesn’t make you curious enough to play it I don’t know what to tell you
Josh Scherr@joshscherr.bsky.social · 2w agoA deeply under-appreciated game: store.steampowered.com/app/447120/W...
For Remap I wrote about EA's double-edged influence on Super Mega Baseball, the best sports series of all time. It's the story of a giant swallowing a talented indie and what happened next, for better and worse. Please read (and subscribe!). Thx @robzacny.bsky.social remapradio.com/articles/sup...
Super Mega Baseball 4 and the Quest for the Perfect Game
How Metalhead achieved the ideal form of the baseball sim-cade game, thanks to the double-edged influence of EA.
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th... there's still time to weather those costumes!! Please aha you're so beautiful
Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 2w agoFirst look at BLADE RUNNER 2099. Hunter Schafer & Michelle Yeoh star. A brand new television series. Set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049, in a world where replicants have emerged on top after an uprising. Coming soon to Prime Video.
This started with a dude wanting her IP but not her... Lesson of the Day: Refuse 👏 To👏Be👏 Replaced!👏👏👏 Congrats @felicia.day on taking the reins!
Jay Merin@jaymerin.bsky.social · 2w ago
BREAKING: Zenimax Online Studios leaders, including studio head, exiting as part of Xbox cuts Studio veterans promoted to take over More context at the link: www.gamefile.news/p/zenimax-on...
ZeniMax Online Studios leadership to exit as part of Xbox cuts
A rundown of 379 gaming roles eliminated in Maryland last week listed some surprisingly senior job titles
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Meet Team Sillies, the dev team behind Sneaky Fishy, the next game from the Gameheads: Fellowship and Gameheads World publishing. In this video, "The Sillies" talk about their inspirations, aspirations & how they feel about finishing their first commercial game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rxu...
Gameheads | Sneaky Fishy | Team Sillies Interview
YouTube video by Gameheads
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Play as a woman who's an axe murderer, who kidnaps men, locks them in a basement, and decapitates them (in this light-hearted puzzle game) store.steampowered.com/app/4756010/...
Favourite Ayo Edebiri picture just dropped.
Billionaires... I don’t understand why we aren’t burning 3rd homes and yachts to the ground yet?
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3w agoIt has now been revealed that the CEO of StubHub also owns hedge fund that scalps millions of dollars worth tickets on StubHub.
Perhaps overshadowed today by the tragic news about Sam Neill, but we also lost another great actor today: Wai Ching Ho. A well-kent face most widely known for playing as Matriarch crime boss Madame Gao in the Marvel Defenders shows, and the voice of Grandma in Turning Red.
Wai Ching Ho, ‘Daredevil’ and ‘Iron Fist’ Actress, Dies at 83
She played crime boss Madame Gao in the Marvel series.
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"When we first pitched Dressmaker, we were told that the game may be 'too niche'... that we might struggle to find our audience. Well, it is with lifted pinkies, feigned modesty, and the politest smile that we say, "Why yes, we did surpass 100,000 wishlists..." 👏👏👏 @freelives.bsky.social