Honestly, this would kick such an unbelievable amount of ass

🌱Elaine Lithgow - Back The Children Of Time RPG! 🕷️@elainelithgow.bsky.social · yesterday

Unironically? I'd set it in the 1800s with Jaws hunting an old whaling ship. Show the horror of industrial whaling and the working conditions on those hellish floating factories, then have Jaws rip it all to shreds while toxic masculine whale hunters try and fail to kill something that fights back.

Travel deep enough into the Backrooms and you will find Bjork.

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 2d ago

Björk in 1996, by Takashi Homma

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Clown shit. This should get you instantly thrown out of the legislature for the rest of the session. Speaker immediately has the Sargeant-at-Arms throw you out, like Moe tossing Barney out of his bar.

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · 2w ago

This utter muppet of a conservative Canadian politician in New Brunswick forgot to remove the LLM text from his floor speech and read it out loud.

When the intake nurse looked at my file and said this would be my 69th time donating blood, the amount of restraint it took to not immediately reply with "Nice" was without parallel. My entire form was vibrating at the effort.

Fae and Wizards signed a landmark partnership for the Outlandish Fantasy Tactics bundle 🧚 🤝 🧙 🎭 Titanium Court: A one-of-a-kind surrealist match-three adventure 🚔 Tactical Breach Wizards: Turn-based tactics with Kevlar-wearing wizards Grab both games at 10% off today on Steam! 🔮 bit.ly/OFTBundle

If a shitty blender sheds strips of metal in your food, it's not a "rogue blender." OpenAI's trash probabilistic text generation software was acting with no more intent than would a blender.

Thomas Fuchs@thomasfuchs.at · 2w ago

PSA (especially to journalists): It’s not a “rogue AI” when a badly made security harness executes scripts fed to it by statistical text generation—it’s just humans making and/or using broken software.

Red Hook out here releasing new DLC for Darkest Dungeon 1 - despite the game having been released over a decade ago - is a truly baller move

Darkest Dungeon@darkestdungeon.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Fire’s Edge, the first new DLC for Darkest Dungeon since 2020, is releasing on August 18th. The Duelist and Runaway, heroes who debuted in Darkest Dungeon II, bring their unique abilities to bear against horrors that lurk beneath the manor. Wishlist now: store.steampowered.com/app/4964110/...

A24’s ‘Elden Ring’ Film Stalled After Red Phantom Named TwinkPunisher Invades Set https://theonion.com/a24s-elden-ring-film-stalled-after-red-phantom-named-twinkpunisher-invades-set/

Arts & culture (including games!) folks in 🇨🇦, you too can tell the feds that any efforts in this regard are a colossal waste and our competitive advantage is, in fact, NOT being addicted to the guaranteed-to-be-enshittified mediocrity machine

Sonja Boon@storiedselves.bsky.social · 2w ago

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

New from me: "Being engaged in videogames over the last decade has meant watching a cohort of publisher executives inherit an industry of products, professionals, and consumers they seem to actively resent for failing to produce instant, infinite profits."

Does anyone know how to drive this thing?

It's increasingly looking like nobody remembers how videogames work—or cares to.

pcgamer.com

it's funny how for decades the RIAA would carbomb teenagers for downloading one (1) song yet now these dudes are just allowed to do this shit like it's nothing

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3w ago

Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

My son just told me is favourite sentence is: “I didn’t say we should kill him” because if you emphasise each different word it changes the entire meaning

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

Cream cheese, caramelized onions, jalapenos and (yes, come at me, I will give no quarter) ketchup

The Imminence Of A Revelation Which Does Not Occur@nataliereed84.bsky.social · 4w ago

quote post with thy preferred hot dog toppings so that thou may be judged by thy peers

The bosses are stealing our game industry, and we aim to take it back! We’re calling game workers, allies, and fans alike to join emergency rallies on WEDNESDAY, JULY 15th! Check this thread for times and locations as they’re established: 🧵

Also want to share this op-ed by @kerrblimey.bsky.social from yesterday, on the bloodbath at Xbox, and the absolutely *insane* practice of holding 1600 survivors of said bloodbath under a proverbial gun for a year. Absolute ghoul behavior. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/opi...

Opinion: Welcome to the house of pain, brought to you by Xbox

Don't mind the screams.

gamedeveloper.com

i think on a moral scale this is almost on par with just killing the guy

Bradford Pearson@bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 4w ago

jesus christ

Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...

Vampirium: 1997 on Steam

1997. Dracula is King of England. At his command, master your dark gifts to assassinate his enemies and secure his vampiric empire. Infiltrate locked-down locations, adapt and survive in living enviro...

store.steampowered.com

A note from us on today's Sony news.

Thank you Google maps for protecting the cow's privacy

Shareholders.

Best Indie Games@clemmygames.bsky.social · 8mo ago

there isn't a problem with the game's industry. there's a problem with every industry and every publicly traded company. getting a "nice CEO who cares" or whatever won't fix anything until things are addressed at a more fundamental societal level. the system will always drive towards this behavior.

It's maybe somewhat this, but I think it's mostly just these losers got themselves addicted to gambling pretending it was "productivity" www.fast.ai/posts/2026-0...

Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding – fast.ai

Sinister variations on the positive state of flow

fast.ai

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · last mo.

Anyway, my theory - FWIW - is that lots of the experienced and senior people who are hooked on LLMs are actually having a midlife crisis, and that spending money on Claude is cheaper than buying a Lambo buttondown.com/justenoughin...

I think it's fine for games not to really have economies

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · last mo.

Tim Sweeney says only hope for new games is to 'connect to economies of other games'

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)

If I were in charge of Xbox, I wouldn't begin my campaign to revitalise the brand's image by closing beloved game studios with an incredibly visible and public-facing reputations. It's impossible to fathom the cost on the balance sheet being worth the hit to reputation, morale and retention.

if any Xbox employee from any studio or part of the company want to chat with a reporter about all this, anonymously or otherwise, my email and Signal are in my bio, and I would like to listen. I cannot fathom what everyone must be feeling right now.

Vancouver Game Garden (@vangamegarden.bsky.social) is back and it's TODAY... and tomorrow, at the Roundhouse Community Centre in Yaletown. A bunch of new games made by the best people in/around Vancouver and it's also free? What could be finer? Nothing! ...except maybe the king of fruit...

Vancouver Game Garden@vangamegarden.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Nels Anderson of @sonderlust.bsky.social showed off his team's solarpunk city-builder Generation Exile at last year's Game Garden, and we chatted with him about the event, his favorite games, and (most importantly) his favorite fruit! ☀️ Learn more about Game Garden 2026 at vangamegarden.com!