Chris Murphy

@oghamsmith.bsky.social

Hooked on weird & wonderful creativity Currently: Cooking up a suprise Prev: BULKHEAD, Square Enix Collective + more He/Him

Great news! "Being private will allow the Devolver Digital team, especially the finance, legal, & executive team, to singularly focus on the long-term health of the company & less on satisfying the requirements of the public market, which have nothing to do with being a successful game publisher"

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 3h ago

Indie publisher Devolver Digital is looking to once again become a private company later this year www.gamesindustry.biz/devolver-dig...

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Everyone's talking about the impact of AI use on game sales. The discourse is interesting. I'm wondering about the impact of AI thumbnails on youtube videos though. The feedback loop should be a lot shorter there, and data easier to obtain. Demographics should be easier to pool too I would think.

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order

Judge says hacker remains a high risk through his skills and motivation to carry out cyber-crime.

bbc.co.uk

Winter@kernowshark.bsky.social · last mo.

Locking up an autistic kid in a mental hospital for life for leaking a clip of a game is bullshit. Guess I'm never playing a Rockstar game again.