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

Jesus. How can you possibly pull out of this tailspin

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...

Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social · last mo.

I’ve heard similar thing in the software engineering space. The problem is that those same engineers that deny jobs to “AI natives,” don’t quite see the contradiction. “Of course, we use it everyday…but if you mention using it extensively in an interview, big red flag.”

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · last yr.

the Nintendo Switch 2 price sucks

With the Xbox news, it’s becoming much more obvious every day why so many indie devs are pivoting to mobile ports too. Golden Lap, possibly Caves of Qud, and Disco Elysium. When hardware is astronomically expensive, mobile development isn’t a nice to have, it becomes paramount to survival

Did you know you can just get the sickest books ever made from the library???

A top down map or Broadacre City, Frank Lloyd Wright’s utopian city with a key on the left hand side.

A photo of the Broadacre City map side panel that explains Wright’s rules for his city:

A NEW FREEDOM FOR LIVING IN AMERICA

No private ownership of public needs.
No landlord and tenant.
No "housing". No subsistence homesteads.
No traffic problem. No back and forth haul.
No railroads. No street cars.
No grade crossings.
No poles. No wires in sight.
No ditches alongside the roads.
No headlights. No light fixtures.
No glaring cement roads or walks.
No tall buildings except as isolated in parks.
No slum. No scum.
No public ownership of private needs.

An acre of ground minimum for the individual
Broadacre City makes no change in existing system of land surveys
Has a single seat of government for each county
Administration by radio and flight
Architectural features determined by the character and topography of region
No major or minor axis

Noodlecake 🍜 Wishlist Tiebreakers on Steam!@noodlecake.bsky.social · last mo.

Mobile seems PERFECT for Golden Lap!

"the most aesthetically pleasing racing game that i have seen in awhile." we agree 👍 Golden Lap is available for preorder on iOS & Android. https://noodlecake.com/games/golden-lap/ #gamedev #racinggame #racinggames

Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 2mo ago

Nothing is more telling about the state of AI quite like driving into SF and every billboard is for AI tech companies I’ve never heard of…instead of for like car dealerships or scammy car accident lawyers Your ad spend is telling on you

Happy Juneteenth! If you're looking for something cool to play today to support a black business in the U.S., check out some of my games. - Studio is Black-owned - Black characters - Black Voice Actors And racist trolls hate us ♥️ linktr.ee/aerial_knight

Westen- BigNerdGaming@bignerdgaming.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tried to pick some of my favorite games with less than 500 reviews to share! I’d recommend every single one of these games to almost everyone, especially if you like emotional narratives, discovering rich worlds, or experiencing the depths only a game can explore.

Nine video game box art images, from top left to right: Duskpunk, Camille and Laura, As Long As You’re Here, Ambrosia Sky Part One, Hypnos, Out and About, Without a Dawn, Amberspire, The Magnificent Trufflepigs

This was fun! 9games.pages.dev

70% Complete [Unofficial]@70percentcomplete.com.web.brid.gy · 2mo ago

Luftrausers is still a perfect video game

What you need to know about Luftrausers is that it kicks ass.

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Sometimes you get reminded of a classic game, then lose an entire week to it and feel the need to suck all your friends into the same RAD VIDEO GAME black hole. You should play Luftrausers. Here’s why: www.70percentcomplete.com/luftrausers-...

Luftrausers is still a perfect video game

What you need to know about Luftrausers is that it kicks ass.

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Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2mo ago

CANNOT wait for all the “found a safe in the basement of this house I just bought” movies that just fucking end with no closure

Hollywood agencies are searching Reddit for short stories and ideas that could be turned into movies following the success of 'Backrooms' (via THR)

Wow, it’s almost Microsoft fiscal, and look, this blog post from July 2025 remains evergreen. I should just make the headline read [insert number here] and I won’t even have to update it www.70percentcomplete.com/9-000-more-h...

9,000 more humans sacrificed to appease the Line

In its latest round of layoffs, Microsoft yet again fails to hold onto 9,000 employees

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It is WILD to me that in the same month we get a new Spyro the Dragon, Compulsion is rumored to be on the chopping block. South of Midnight was not perfect, but goddamn was it a wonderful look at what an emotional, intelligent 3d platformer can be in the age of photorealism.

Where’s the @paletteswap.site article about Phil Spencer’s Hexen t-shirt being raised into the rafters of Xbox HQ at the start of this presentation

Control is so fucking good

Tuned into the State of Prey and Arkane Austin is still closed and Prey still has no sequel. Damn.

I love when new train engines are pulling the commuter rail trains because there are ALWAYS at least six teens with DLSRs gleefully snapping picks of the engines. I need that joy in my life

“Amberspire is an engine of emergent culture: a city’s tone and tenor shaped by its seasonal dice rolls, as much as its layout and its buildings.” Check out my review of Amberspire: www.70percentcomplete.com/amberspire-i... Review code provided by @bithellgames.bsky.social

Amberspire is a city-builder unlike anything I’ve ever seen

The dice must flow.

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I played Hypnos and you should too! Check out the first hour or so of my time in the game and revel in the expert usage of Proper Nouns to make the COOLEST world to explore youtu.be/CCYbYz2TAU4

Let's try HYPNOS!

YouTube video by The other 30

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