matt
@mattvolk.bsky.social
Terminally online | Politics brained | Tech enthusiast | Repost mostly
Having the latest OLED tech PC monitor is amazing to have for gaming, but have to care for it like it's made of glass. Have to unplug it to clean it so it doesn't retain heat which can fuck up the screen when cleaning it. Hopefully tech gets there they don't have to be treated as if made of glass.
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Launching a new website about video games today. Meet @respec.net. A sibling to @rpgsite.net, a spiritual successor to VG247, & a brother from another mother to other 100% independent UK media brands like @videogameschronicle.com and @trueachievements.com. www.respec.net/feature/87-w...
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I don't engage much on this platform other than having notifications on for some people whose work I like to keep up with, but of all the weeks to avoid being on here, this has been the week.
Saying "told you so" about someone who is accused of SA is the grossest way to try and score a point as being on the right side about someone who has had a checkered past.
Have already had to unfollow folks here for shitting on "post left" people over this Platner shit. I don't entertain that post left shit.
This was the best part about the last year of Bungie, through multiple layoff cycles it was a daily battle between survivor’s guilt and waiting for the other shoe to drop I would reiterate people will not make a good video game under these conditions but that assumes any of these ghouls care
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · last mo.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.
Announcing massive layoffs and a goal to reach one billion users in the same memo is just the ultimate bad vibes move. Earnest or not, no one sees that prospect as an exciting challenge to overcome. It looks like you’re being prepped for some Amazon-style piss in a bottle workloads.
Can we finally acknowledge that we're in an honest-to-god class war and start treating our politicians, bosses, companies, and celebrities accordingly? Endless waves of layoffs and ballooning prices justified by AI spend that nobody wants can't possibly be sustainable. Everything is dogshit now, man
Aftermath@aftermath.site · last mo.Xbox will lay off 3200 workers and cut four studios loose aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs-j...
Microsoft engineered this so that it looked the least bad optically while at the same time still committing a slaughter, all so that Satya Nadella can still dick around with more useless AI horseshit. Fuck him and fuck Microsoft.
blogged it aftermath.site/microsoft-xb...
You Don't Have To Hand It To Microsoft For A Well-Planned Bloodbath
People are being laid off in a horrendous job market. You do not have to praise the muddled prose of the rich and insulated.
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Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · last mo.Microsoft engineered this so that it looked the least bad optically while at the same time still committing a slaughter, all so that Satya Nadella can still dick around with more useless AI horseshit. Fuck him and fuck Microsoft.
There's a reason why Arkane is a separate line both here and in the Xbox statement when compared to other studios French labor law requires a consultation process with the studio’s works council to ensure there is actual justification for the move and that all alternatives have been exhausted first
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · last mo.BREAKING: Xbox will cut 3,200 jobs as part of a major reorganization, and divest from five studios: - Compulsion and Double Fine will go indie - Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will be sold - Arkane to enter consultation process Here's the full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The iPhone price going up is going to be the thing that makes normal people catch up to the RAM crisis the same way power bills were for data centers. You can avoid games, you can’t avoid phones.
god what an unforced disaster to take the team that built and maintained Destiny 2 and just smash it into the rocks instead of investing in whatever that big pile of talent and skill can build next
Found that an actual nazi works at my job. Don't know who he is. Anyone wants to try finding out who it is by running the plates, go right ahead.
USA LISTEN TO ME IF YOU’RE IN A CITY OR NEAR ANY TYPE OF CITY GO INTO THE CITY RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND INTO THE LOCAL DSA CHAPTER THEIR MOVEMENT IS YOUR MOVEMENT AS OF RIGHT NOW
alyssa mercante@alyssamerc.bsky.social · last mo.THIS IS THE MOVEMENT WE CAN FINALLY HAVE A PROPER LEFT IN THIS COUNTRY KEEP IT MOVING
THIS IS THE MOVEMENT WE CAN FINALLY HAVE A PROPER LEFT IN THIS COUNTRY KEEP IT MOVING
SOCIALIST POLICY WORKS. DON'T FUCKING LISTEN TO ANY FUCK ASS DEMOCRATS THAT SAY IT DOESN'T.
You don't have to agree with Valve as a de-facto monopoly that does many many questionable things with content moderation to appreciate making an open living room platform running Linux viable. I disagree with many of their decisions but their hardware is ideologically aligned with my beliefs.
The AI warning for Steam browser plugin adds Steam search filtering #Steam #Gaming #AI #GenAI
The AI warning for Steam browser plugin adds Steam search filtering
Want to hide games that use generative AI on Steam? It's now a lot easier with updates to the The AI warning for Steam browser plugin.
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bungie, former destiny 2 devs told me, was a fraught work environment, but many devs and teams did what they consider to be career-best work despite that
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2mo agoDestiny 2 devs bid farewell to the game they spent a decade making aftermath.site/destiny-2-deve...
Microsoft buying these studios that make wonderful prestige titles always felt off because Xbox lacks a sense of identity that lasts longer than 3 fiscal years. This contradiction was made even worse by their unwillingness to respond to the BDS Boycott in even a perfunctory way.
1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.
Game industry hardship fund
A game jam from 2026-06-10 to 2026-06-24 hosted by Necrosoft Games. PREMISE: The game industry has a problem. Too many people are out of work (reports say 33% of the industry lost their jobs in the la...
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If you're a normal person who didn't subject themselves to 100 hours of non-stop commercials, but you still want to see a lot of what was shown off at Zombie E3, this Steam page with all of the showcases and their games (that are on Steam) is super useful: store.steampowered.com/sale/summer_...
Summer Showcase 2026
Your Hub For This Summer’s Video Game Announcements
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A Call of Duty about the threat of North Korea could not be at a worse time
