perfect appetizer for GTA 6 is WILD work

Strange Scaffold@strangescaffold.bsky.social · yesterday

"A chaotic riff on Crazy Taxi is the perfect appetizer for GTA 6" - @polygon.com Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World is out now on Steam and Xbox Series X|S 🚚💨 Full article here: www.polygon.com/truck-kun-su...

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Something randomly reminded me to share this! lumpley.games/2019/10/21/g...

1/3 of the game industry has been laid off. We are offering a helping hand. Grab 100+ games in the Game Industry Hardship Fund on itch.io and help support impacted devs. 🔗 itch.io/b/3802/game-... #gamedev #indiegames #costarica #gameindustry #videogames

Some people put together an itch.io game bundle to help folks impacted by the massive industry layoffs. itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Lovely review for Truck-kun from The Gamer!!

TheGamer@thegamerweb.bsky.social · last wk.

Crazy Taxi meets isekai anime in this delightfully brief adventure.

The efficacy of pro wrestling moves is partly based on physical proximity to historic events. This is beyond dispute. Read more in my book: “The Sharpshooter Hurts More in Canada.”

The median sale price of a home near Irvine, CA is $1.3m. (Source: www.redfin.com/county/332/C...) Mandated RTO policies uproot families that own homes in affordable areas and force them to move to areas where owning a home is not financially possible for the majority of workers in that area.

Time between ruthlessly laying off the person who did the work & Xbox claiming that work as a forward-looking team victory: 14 days. www.gamespot.com/articles/xbo...

Xbox Layoffs Included 37-Year Veteran Who Designed One Of Xbox's Best Features Ever

The Xbox cuts will affect more than 3,000 people.

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Tom Warren@tomwarren.co.uk · 2w ago

🚨BIG Xbox news. Microsoft is launching Xbox backward compatibility for PC today. The initial preview will include 4 original Xbox games on PC, with plans to bring more Xbox console games to PC over time. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/969117/...

Bethesda Games Studios’ Montreal workers are being treated especially poorly by XBOX and we won’t stand for it. Here are the details. If this upsets you let Microsoft know: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

Does ANYONE know who voices Maggie, the CGI host from the PlayStation Underground PS1/2 demos? Producer Gary Barth is listed as a narrator in the credits of a couple discs, as is Chris Colon, but Maggie's actress is NEVER listed in any of them. Someone must know who it is, surely...

I know not to read the comments, but man… reading gamer comments on the layoffs is a real mixed bag huh? Everything from “this is a slap in the face to all who love game” to “good, maybe now we’ll get Fallout 5.” My dudes. You won’t get it any time soon.

It's a year since I published Savage Sword of Susan. Still all up to read for free scarygoround.com/savagesword/...

Scary Go Round Comics: SAVAGE SWORD OF SUSAN

A fantasy aside

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Xbox Is Begging Us To Think About Fallout 5 Instead Of Layoffs

'What matters the most is that the games are good'

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Skylanders Giants shipped in 9 MONTHS. Because we didn't have TIME to fuck around.

Robin-Yann Storm@rystorm.com · 3w ago

This as a problem of creative leadership, and if you have watched many GDC talks, or been a game developer, you will have seen this. Whenever a game ships in record time, the director is shown to make, and keep, decisions. Whenever it goes over time, you eventually hear of constant changes.

WE HAVE A BUILD! We've been battling the fact that Ryan's computer (the one we use to do the builds) went on holiday for two months. Anyway, we've gotten things sorted and we're back! Time for WIP patch notes!

Let's get the rest of the Retroachievements for Spyro Year of the Dragon! :D www.twitch.tv/tealgamemaster

www.ebay.com/itm/16852637... One of my lovely coworkers has listed a bunch of his Skylanders!!!

Skylanders SuperChargers Snow-Brite Stormblade - Exclusive TFB Employee Edition! | eBay

They've been in sealed containers almost exclusively since their release, coming out only for photos! Most are flawless, only a few with notable creases.

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A Statement from WoWGG-CWA on Today's Layoffs at Microsoft.

YUP. It's a job, like anything else! Sometimes you're working at an artisan coffee house. Sometimes you're brewing Nespresso in the sub-basement of an office. You're still the same skilled barista, just in wildly different circumstances depending on... what's happening in the world.

Raj Patel@rajio.bsky.social · 4w ago

Very few (close to zero) career gamedevs realistically get to choose what games they end up working on. Working on a cool and/or successful game is not an inherent reflection of the skills of the individual in question.

www.emberdione.com/emotional-ro... Once more posting for those who might want a little help in riding the Layoff Coaster.

In case you’re looking for some way to help on a day like this. uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun...

Game Worker Hardship Fund

Who is eligible to apply for this fund?This fund is for game workers in the US and Canada impacted by record layoffs & other hardships in the games industry within the timeframe of January 2024 to the...

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Here's a piece of Skylanders history. On the first one, we didn't have toys, so we tested using just tags. All of these were made at work. There's likely a cheat minion in here as well. XD

Imagine paying billions of dollars for something, then smashing it and walking away.

Stephen Totilo@stephentotilo.bsky.social · last mo.

Microsoft's new gaming cuts, some 3,200 jobs impacted through June 2027, follow cuts of over 2,500 in 2024 and scores in 2025 A brutal sequence of events The latest round, under Xbox's new CEO, spins out smaller studios and slashes Xbox platform team www.gamefile.news/p/xbox-to-cu...

What the fuck is going on with video games?

This is an unbeatable squad!

The Tim@angryoldtim.bsky.social · last mo.

Our PAX West 2026 Pitch Your Game Idea panelists: • Kris Straub • Porkfry • Annie VanderMeer (designer on Unpacking & Guild Wars 2) • Kim Swift (creator of Portal!) • Maezie Ellis (token Gen Z) Come find us at #PAXWest on Saturday, September 5 @ 9PM in the Frog Theater!

Happy Father's Day 🖤

it would benefit all of us to unionize because literally none of us have job security in this industry. you can work at a company for 10+ years and they will stay lay you off like you’re nothing. it shouldn’t be like this

“A plain donut is basically a small bagel. In my 90 minute Ted talk, I plan to prove that Big Donut is pulling one over on…”