You can do so much good for so little and walk away with an embarrassment of riches in the form of dozens of sweet indie games!

itch.io@itch.io · 2d ago

Enjoy 127 items by 109 creators and support game devs effected by recent layoffs: itch.io/b/3802/game-...

The Women’s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) officially started this past weekend! You can learn more about it in the linked thread or on their website: www.womensprobaseballleague.com. You can watch their next game on Wednesday either on ESPN or YouTube! ⚾️

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 5d ago

By popular demand, here is everything you need to know ahead of the Women's Professional Baseball League season that starts tomorrow:

As of this morning, the itch bundle officially broke 100k. This is a lifeline to our fellow workers and proof that solidarity extends beyond borders, both literal and figurative. Never let anyone tell you that things cannot change.

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 3d ago

You’ve helped us raise over 80k for laid off gamedevs in need so far, and we still have plenty of time left in the bundle’s drive. Everyone who organized this effort was doing so on their own time for the benefit of others. If these companies wanted to, they would. They don’t. We do. Join us. ✊

Heads up for PNW folks, but smoke is probably going to be pretty bad this week. If you have something you can do to prepare for it, it looks like it's going to start ramping up for western WA tomorrow.

The Game Industry Hardship Fund has raised nearly $70,000 in just two days. That’s pretty cool, y’all. For just $10, you can help them reach $100,000 in the next week and get over 100 games in the process!

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 6d ago

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Do you like being able to scale any vertical surface no matter how tall? How about leaping off that cliff and taking no damage when you land? Or my favorite, making a Spartan kick to yeet your enemy off a cliff, a ship, or building? Add in some Greek mythology and you have AC Odyssey! It’s fun!

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 7d ago

Following the release of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey film on July 17, daily active users of Assassin's Creed Odyssey increased significantly across all platforms www.gamesindustry.biz/analyst-data...

One of our amazing @takethis.org Accelerate Alumni & current volunteers, Jamy Drapeza, has announced the release of their program: RPG Wellness! This project began as their capstone project, and we couldn't be prouder of them for taking it to the next level! www.jamydoestherapy.com/rpg-wellness...

Earlier today, I was at the Renaissance Faire where a lively joust ended in actors pretending they were dead to uproarious applause. I got home and learned about a shooting in downtown Seattle that’s killed at least three people and it’s all completely senseless and very real. 😣 Make it stop.

I cannot emphasize this enough: watch the *whole* video the animations are actually frames of *embroidery*

Eva Navratilova@evanavratilova.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is deeply emotional for us.🥹 Scarlet Deer Inn, our dark medieval folk tale with physical embroidery, is OUT NOW on Steam! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us on this journey. ❤️ Steam: store.steampowered.com/app1553260

MORE AVATAR. YES PLEASE. I always feel a certain kind of way when twins are a major plot point. I’m special! 😂 As long as I’m alive, Korra has at least one defender in her corner. It would be pretty topical if she quietly did something very selfless and heroic yet everyone villainizes her legacy.

IGN@ign.com · 2w ago

Avatar: Seven Havens was revealed at #SDCC with a trailer and news the series will premiere on Paramount+ October 9, 2026!

Everyone is talking about Greek and Roman mythology because of the Odyssey movie and this is wonderful for me specifically who has loved that topic for years. 🥰 Send me your memes, your puns, your classic lit interpretations! I’ll eat it up like candy.

Months of work, a lifetime of learning, but the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Courses program launches right now. Eight €40 courses launching 10 days apart, I aim to make the critical less-spoken parts of indie gamedev accessible away from expensive visa-locked hotel bars. courses.ramiismail.com

Goodbye, Space Girls. 😭 I will miss you terribly. Can’t fully put into words what it meant to me and how grateful I am to have been a part of such a chaotic, fulfilling story. Perhaps one day, we’ll be able to share it with the world. Until then, I’ll always love you, Oli. ❤️

Melissa (Memo) Moorehead@n7memo.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’ve been in a long-running TTRPG campaign for five and a half years. It started during Covid when we were desperate for human connection, and I don’t think any of us thought it would become something so big and personally rewarding. This weekend is the big finale. I’m not ready for it all to end. 😭

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

I’ve been in a long-running TTRPG campaign for five and a half years. It started during Covid when we were desperate for human connection, and I don’t think any of us thought it would become something so big and personally rewarding. This weekend is the big finale. I’m not ready for it all to end. 😭

TL;dr there was massive growth in the industry from around 2020-2022 due to low interest rates (money easier/cheaper to borrow) and a huge increase in demand for games due to people being stuck at home bc of covid. Now that growth has stalled or reversed and the shareholders “need” (1/4)

As someone who genuinely likes salads, I really need the source of explosive diarrhea identified and dealt with so I can enjoy my lunches again. 😭 Veggies are good! Don’t take them away from me!

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

So, Ashly Burch (voice actor of Aloy, Tiny Tina and Chloe from LiS) has a new-ish channel focused on mental health. Recently, she posted a guided meditation video. I had never done any kind of meditation before. But I gave it a go a few days ago and found it cool. Idk, if you want to check it out.

Meditation to help you love yourself and others

YouTube video by I'm Happy You're Here

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I need all of you to show up for the new WPBL teams and watch their games. Hype them up! Their inaugural season starts next month! www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Women's pro baseball league unveils nicknames, logos for 1st season

The Women's Professional Baseball League on Wednesday unveiled the nicknames and logos of its four teams ahead of its inaugural season, with each team name inspired by pioneering women.

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So what can you do if you enjoy games from Bethesda, ID, Zenimax Online, Obsidian, and other studios under Microsoft? You make your voice heard: “treating developers as line items in an expense sheet and not people is unacceptable. People make the games I love, and they deserve better than this.”

The game industry is so fucking back

I survived today’s Xbox layoffs. While I’m grateful, I’m also heartbroken for all of you who have to find new opportunities in a brutal economy when you’ve done nothing wrong. It’s not your fault, but it’s now your burden, and that’s not fair.

Hope is an act not a state of being. It requires talking about and sharing to grow. It is hard to hope but I'm gonna ask you for it anyway: If you're a game dev and have stories of what makes you hopeful for the future of games whatever that may be and would be willing to talk about it, get in touch

The majority of chatter today will be about the fate of studios who build the games we love. But we cannot forget that these cuts will include hundreds of less visible folk w top expertise in a variety of supporting departments. No studios close today, but the loss personal & professional is immense

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Kotaku@kotaku.com · last mo.

Xbox is preparing to lay off around 3,200 individuals, part ways with Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Undead Labs, Ninja Theory, and possibly Arkane Lyon in what CEO Asha Sharma is calling "the most significant res... https://kotaku.com/xbox-layoff-3200-most-significant-restructure-history-2000712836

I fear for what tomorrow brings to my fellow devs at Xbox. It’s gonna be rough and I can’t fathom how we just work through the bloodbath.

Hey if you’re an AFAB person with a need for masc shoes, Tomboy Toes is tragically going out of business and your time is now. There are 1,000 pairs left and no restocks www.tomboytoes.com

Tomboy Toes - Masculine Dress Shoes in Smaller Sizes

AS SEEN ON:                          The Tomboy Toes Mission Tomboy Toes is a seller of formal and semi-formal men's shoes in sizes intended to fit women, trans men, and non-binary people with smal...

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While I’m not feeling remotely patriotic today, I do appreciate the excuse to play board games and eat BBQ. Have a safe and happy 4th!

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

YouTube video by NPR

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