Got $10? Want 127 games? Want to feel like a hero in real life too? #videogames #itch.io

One thing video games have over film is collecting shards. Regardless of how big Christopher Nolan goes with his camera, his movies will never allow us to collect shards.

People are very mad about Sony ending the production of physical games. In other words people are very mad about the wrong thing. It's the DRM, not the disks. If you can't play the game without logging in for permission, share it, or copy it, who cares if it's on a disk? #Sony #PlayStation

PlayStation says it will stop making physical games – and that should worry us all

Sony’s announcement spells the end of a whole ecosystem built by superfan collectors – and signals a troubling shift in the industry

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I really love being alive in this era when the AI is still bad at so much. We get the fun of "solving" things. Going to be crazy in a couple decades or so. #AI

You cannot convince me that a technology where I can type this into a text box and expect to get an interesting, appropriate, and working output is not absolutely astonishing.

It seems to be a fad for egregores, tulpas, golems, and memes to go completely feral.

Hey all! My discussion with @rushkoff.com on the Team Human podcast is live so please check it out! From the dawn of the internet to the AI revolution; a conversation about games, magic, AI, optimism, and caution. ✌️🤖

Douglas Rushkoff@rushkoff.com · 2mo ago

"It's [AI] not just making the nebulous concrete, it's also making the concrete crazy."- Reed Berkowitz (@soi.bsky.social) Stream and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEq2...

Tech companies keep firing people and telling us that it's because of AI. I believe the reality is that they're firing people because no one enjoys using their products anymore. "AI efficiency" sounds a lot better than "becoming irrelevant". #AI

I have to post again. 5,000 game demos. How the hell do people decide what to play?

Curiouser LLC@soi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wow! It’s #nextfest over at Steam. Prepare to encounter almost 5,000 demos from up and coming games!

Wow! It’s #nextfest over at Steam. Prepare to encounter almost 5,000 demos from up and coming games!

The Number Of Steam Next Fest Demos This Month Is Too Damn High

Prepare to speedrun your way through almost 5,000 demos.

gamespot.com

I was in NY last month and had the fantastic opportunity to be invited to participate (in person, no zoom!) in Douglas Rushkoff's Team Human podcast! Episode dropping soon :) Until then, check out all his fine work here: www.teamhuman.fm #teamhuman

Just got out of The Backrooms movie. Or did I? #backrooms

I love it that the first jungle gym was an educational game created in the hopes that children could understand the fourth dimension. "Mimsy Were the Bogoves" iykyk #notsciencefiction

The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains

YouTube video by Tom Scott

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Hey! If you’re interested in Gen AI and games and the safety issues of millions of people chatting with live AI my GDC talk is up for free. Check it out! #AI #gamedev #gdc

Playing with the Shoggoth: Safety in Games with Generative AI (Presented by GameSafe)

gdcvault.com

Little bit of game news and some context. NBC is creating a Wordle game show. However, it was already a televised game show in the 80's called Lingo! Also the game itself is the last of a lineage of similar games starting with "Cows and Bulls" in the early 1900's. #wordle #iruineditforyou

NBC orders ‘Wordle’ game show hosted by Savannah Guthrie | CNN Business

Five years ago, Wordle was just a game that creator Josh Wardle played with his partner. Wardle sold the game to The New York Times. Now it’s becoming a prime-time game show on NBC.

edition.cnn.com

I have never felt so seen. Finally someone understands how I feel when I eat a great lunch. 🙏 #lunch #kpop #unchild

ICE recruits gamers with "Halo" memed ads. Halo co-creator says the ad "makes me sick". Agree! #halo #ice #videogames

Halo co-creator says ICE’s Halo-themed recruitment ad “makes me sick”

Another Halo maker says ad "ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation." ALSO: A developer whose game just launched on Xbox slams Microsoft’s silence

gamefile.news

I think sometimes UX is the window into the dead-eyed soul of this new crop of tech companies. I signed up for OpenRouter and after creating my account a marketing survey popped up on every page with no way to cancel it. It's hard, as a UX designer, to convey how creepy this is. #UX #AI

The video game musical no one saw coming :) #immersiveart #April1

The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical

YouTube video by Warhammer 40,000

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I love PAX East. It’s a conference where you are encouraged to actually play games. Prototypes, 40 year old games, TTRPGs, AAA titles, and everything else. Just thousands of people playing games together. #paxeast #games #❤️

Heading to PAX East this Friday if anyone wants to chat about AI and game design :)

Lol 😆 I just love creators unafraid of cringe and criticism. It’s like sci-fi from back in the day. @trishacode.com!!

TrishaCode@trishacode.com · 6mo ago

Some of my thoughts on AI video, Seedance 2.0, the moon landings, Elon, AI slop and dogs

I don’t know how to make this sound as exciting as it feels. But an AI can make all kinds of software just by asking it. You don’t have to buy anything. The feature set is whatever you want it to be. No ads. No subscriptions. Just 15 minutes and a few bucks. #AI #genai

$6k a month is a ton for a non-profit or individual but it’s nothing for some companies. Some get their storage at cost anyway. Surely as we build all these massive new processing facilities someone can give a little back? Come on! 😤

Gamers Just Saved the Largest Repository of Retro Games From Closing Forever

A massive online repository of retro game files has been saved from being lost, thanks to an army of dedicated video game preservationists.

comicbook.com

Just got back from speaking about live generative AI in games at GDC. What a crowd! AI may not be making a splash at most game conventions but at the developers conference it was EVERYWHERE. I felt right at home here! AI tools, vibe coding platforms, and games are coming fast! #AI #gamedev

Getting ready to give my talk on Generative AI and safety at GDC! #ai #gdc

Excited to share I'll be giving a talk on Safety in Games with Generative AI at GDC this year! Find out what happens when your "content" is also a content creator! Adversarial creativity ensues. If you're in town and want to talk about AI in games, let me know. ! ✨ #AI #gamedev #GDC

Playing with the Shoggoth: Safety in Games with Generative AI (Presented by GameSafe) | Agenda | GDC Festival of Gaming

The GDC Festival of Gaming program blends expert insight with interactive formats designed to spark ideas, sharpen skills, and connect communities.

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Backrooms movie plot thoughts The backrooms has always reminded me of an AI. Close, but not quite right. The style but too many fingers. Form, but no understanding of the *use*. Close enough. It isn't proc-gen. That would be random and endless, but correct. #backrooms 🧵

It's the Official Teaser in HD of the Kane Pixels BACKROOMS! &^%$ yeah! #kino #backrooms #lfg

Backrooms | Official Teaser HD | A24

YouTube video by Kane Pixels

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Ads are coming to AI and this is bad * ♾️ . I'm an AI enthusiast, however AI ads border on catastrophic harm. They have too much information and the AI is much too persuasive. It will be the most manipulative form of advertising ever created. #AI #OpenAI #ads

OpenAI starts testing ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, says ads will affect users of free and Go tiers of the app.

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