Ste Pickford
@stepickford.bsky.social
Full time video game developer. Some time comic artist. Not won an award since Primary School.
It’s my four year work anniversary at Double 11 today, and I feel very fortunate to be employed in video games - what with the state of the whole industry - at a decent employer. I’ve worked out that it’s also my 40 year anniversary of actually starting work in video games! Less for murder, etc.
It’s my four year work anniversary at Double 11 today, and I feel very fortunate to be employed in video games - what with the state of the whole industry - at a decent employer. I’ve worked out that it’s also my 40 year anniversary of actually starting work in video games! Less for murder, etc.
Watching that Good Fortune film on Amazon. The background music so gas includes Detroit techno, hacienda tunes, now The Buzzcocks. Did someone from Manchester do the soundtrack?
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
digitaldigging.org
We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.
We need to take a moment to salute Gianni Infantino for being the first person in history to get 55 European countries to unanimously agree on anything.
All money, minus processing fees for itch, goes to out of work game developers to pay for food, housing, healthcare, and whatever they need to make it through. Neither we as the organizers nor UVW take any of the money from the bundle. Game developers can apply here: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun...
Game Worker Hardship Fund
Who is eligible to apply for this fund?This fund is for game workers in the US and Canada impacted by record layoffs & other hardships in the games industry within the timeframe of January 2024 to the...
uvw-cwa.org
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-...
When UEFA are the good guys, the bad guys.are very bad indeed.
Now this is how you approach a homebrew game on an odd console! Painstaking research, talking to people who worked on the original, learning assembly on the fly, making physical carts and adapters, then carefully documenting it. No Claude in sight.
leaded solder@leadedsolder.com · last wk.New blog post! What do you get when a British television channel makes a home videogame console? A really long project to make a Tetris clone for it. www.leadedsolder.com/2026/07/28/b... Come back next week for part 2! #bbcbc #tetris #retrogaming #retrocomputing
"More homework before Avengers Doomsday!" I snarl at my kids as I sit them down before yet another X-Men film. They are crying. I do not care.
See also the entire games industry. I won't be surprised if we get parts of the UK media covering GTA6's launch as a US cultural import
@mattevansc3.bsky.social · last wk.This points to a wider problem in British culture, media and politics. The UK just seems to either not care or actively hate its non-traditional soft power @2000ad.bsky.social is almost 50yrs old, Games Workshop is a global phenomenon. You’d think these would be celebrated more as British excellence
It is vitally important that we get a historically accurate Black Panther movie.
Here's a pre-visualisation video for SNES Maximum Carnage, created by animator Alan Moult ( Software Creations ). He made this video for the game programmers to demostrate how the animations were supposed to work in the game. Thank you to Alan for keeping hold of the video and allowing me to share.
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/
Every time the commentator says ‘Yamal’ I hear at as him sarcastically saying ‘yer mam’.
That horrible BBC backslapping advert made the halftime show look good.
This might be the most hideous thing I’ve ever watched.
This might be the most hideous thing I’ve ever watched.
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890
I was quite happy listening to Ally McCoist for this game, then Lee Dixon joined in the commentary as well? Haven’t we suffered enough?
Siofra River Well, Limgrave.
hookland.bsky.social@hookland.bsky.social · 3w agoOur buildings become landmarks, become posts around which folklore is tied. Access to underground reservoir is transformed into the gateway to a secret tunnel system, a prison for a demon defeated by circles. Why? Because stories need a place to live. – Dr. M. Benn #Folklore
Live a life where people talk about you after you die like they do Sam Neil.
Layoffs are the only video game news there is now. Just people losing their jobs until video games cease to exist.
Anna@ltkerr.bsky.social · 4w agoToday launches the game I've been working on: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced It's been an incredible experience working with such hardworking,talented & amazing people and we are very glad that players are loving it Unfortunately my whole team is being laid off so we can't fully celebrate it
