Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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My current job had to cut my hours, so I'm now available for new work! - Pixel artist w/8 yrs of professional experience - Can do contract, part-time, full-time, etc. - Art Lead experience - Prev. Rivals of Aether, Shovel Knight DX, Tako no Himitsu 📧 brawlersinzone@gmail.com 🎨 brawlersinzone.com

Missed a #GunmetalGothic #ScreenshotSaturday? Here's a round-up of cool things since the last big YouTube video.

Back in October, Rockstar Games fired 34 employees for alleged gross misconduct. The severity of these firings could have spelled the end for a burgeoning union effort that was underway, but it didn't. In fact, the union is now *bigger* than it's ever been before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4z...

Rockstar Fired 34 People, but the Union Is Bigger than Ever

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Dewdrop Dynasty is FINALLY OUT! OH BABY! Go grab your copy on Steam today!: store.steampowered.com/app/1444080/... #pixelart #gamedev #indiegame #metroidvania #ドット絵

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Today we're celebrating the 6th anniversary of Panzer Paladin! 🎉🗡️🤖 Whether you've mastered weapon forging or uncovered every legendary weapon, thank you for being part of Flame and Grit's adventure. To celebrate we're holding a week long sale, grab Panzer Paladin for 30% off!

I've just set up the pre-launch page for a potential KS campaign for my little RPG. Any 'Notify me on launch' clicks are deeply appreciated. \o/ Link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pit...

Proud to announce you can now pre-order the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Video Courses. Practical, focused 101 video courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - €40 (excl. VAT) per course, with bulk & group discounts! courses.ramiismail.com

Levelling the Playing Field - Courses by Rami Ismail

Practical, focused courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - by Rami Ismail.

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Ubisoft Barcelona lays off 51 employees on 'Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced' launch day. insider-gaming.com/assassins-cr...

Copy Cats demo is now available on Steam! Play through the entire first world of the game and solve tricky puzzles with your literal copycat who mimics your every move! Check it out: store.steampowered.com/app/4700300/Copy_Cats/ #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #puzzlegame #demo

well that's rockstar, uber and nvidia on the fuck no list source www.bbc.com/news/technol...

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.

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Frances Foster Jerkin@vitalxs.bsky.social · last mo.

The absolute state of gaming in the big 2026

Our merch store is now open! This is our first time launching anything of this kind. There are t-shirts and stickers available, and your purchase will help support the Spriters Resource sites! merch.spriters-resource.com We hope that you'll enjoy showing off your cool tSR shirts in the wild!

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Big Tech is organized crime. Most people won’t engage with that statement. They don’t want to confront what it means — how huge the problem is and how hard it will be to fix. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s true. Big Tech is organized crime.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last mo.

Meta sure sounds eager to get young people hooked on online gambling

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

Been working on this as part of my Levelling The Playing Field program for a while, as part of a mission of creating fairer access to knowledge. Eight 101 video courses for independent game dev, €40 each, available soon. Sign up for the launch announcement & newsletter at courses.ramiismail.com

I keep this one saved

🦎Galileo🍉@galileogb.bsky.social · 7mo ago

ARTISTS: quote with some random art advice!!

Valérie Masson-Delmotte@valmasdel.bsky.social · last mo.

Perfect timing to pause and think 🌡️🪭🔥🥵🪾 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

A bit of a TLDR for the past 5 years, 👀 have a peek at games we've prototyped and continue to work on 💻🐰🐰

vgen.co/Songoandaa My Vgen shop is open!! 🛒 #vgencommissions #pixelart

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Check out Songoandaa's commissions and portfolio! | At 7 years old got obsessed with Mario 3. Drew all the levels on my notebook instead of studying. Now I Art direct for @odddreams_D ...

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Actively annoyed by seeing some AI people smugly agree with each other that the reason we hate their shitty technology is that we resent it "lowering the barriers to entry" for the arts, which apparently the world of software development has always done.

Dear sound effect and music asset creators; Please stop using generative AI for your thumbnails. You're putting a giant label on your work that gives the impression it's low effort slop, even when the actual content might be excellent stuff!

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"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

I am so fucking sick of my website getting scraped. Millions of requests per minute, somehow designed to bypass all my security rules, choking the site until it completely stops loading. If I were paying for bandwidth, it would cost me a fortune. How is this legal?

All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.

Fuck home video game consoles that cost a thousand dollars and have teraflops of gigashits. I hope they never make another one. Make more Gameboys, god damn it. MAKE GAMEBOYS AGAIN. I want $200 handheld gaming devices for cute little cheap games that will nonetheless change your life.

love to elevate story in games as the most artistic aspect of the medium but then also treat the actual text as basically disposable what an embarrassing and ignorant thing to say

PC Gamer@pcgamer.com · 2mo ago

Of 338 new games released on Steam last week, 120 had an AI disclosure.

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.