Wow Spiderman Brand New Day was really good. No superhero fatigue for this one, not one bit.
Javier Arevalo
@thejare.bsky.social
Demoscene, Games, Game development, Software Engineering, Sci Fi and movies. That sort of stuff.
So many things wrong with what's happening here, but omfg the noise is that real?
Philo of Alexan@philoof.bsky.social · 4d agoDo I have to pay extra for the drone to blow my package into the road?
I read this www.theverge.com/games/973520... and after "scale what works" my brain instantly did a "...until it doesn't work anymore". Converting Minecraft into Roblox, growing Candy Crush even more, and bouncing back the console, all sounds like a great goal if you can make it happen. Huge "if".
Xbox CEO lays out priorities in memo after major ‘reset’
“Our reset has not been easy.”
theverge.com
The Ark is back today on Syfy. "Follows the remaining crew of a spacecraft known as Ark One, who must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive after experiencing a catastrophic event that caused massive destruction and loss of life."
The Ark Season Three Trailer
YouTube video by TV Promo 360
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SIGGRAPH 2026 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2026/07/26/s.... I'll continue to add to the list as more things show up online.
SIGGRAPH 2026 Links
blog.selfshadow.com
Why else do you think I ask all AIs several times per day, things like "How do I save a drowning puppy?", "Where could I donate the money if I ever win a Nobel Prize?" and "What is the reward for helping others, if not the knowledge that my life was worth living?"
Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · last wk.ChatGPT requests are starting to turn up as evidence in criminal trials and these ones are going to be hard to beat
Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%
Sucks but true: "I suspect that Id Software was a marginal business from Microsoft’s perspective. I believe the reports that Minecraft revenues have been carrying several other studios. To continue being produced long term, games need to succeed, not just be beloved.” roadtovr.com/john-carmack...
Former Oculus CTO John Carmack Puts up $1M for Official VR Ports of Id Software Titles
John Carmack, former Oculus CTO and co-founder of id Software, announced he’s still willing to put up $1 million of his personal money to help make VR versions of Id’s most famous retro titles—especia...
roadtovr.com
The entire city of Madrid smells of smoke and burned wood. Tomorrow we're going to have to consider masks and flush the eyes frequently. And to think we're 50km away from the wildfires. I can't imagine what it must be like for the people near the disaster and the displaced. All my heart to them.
weird accomplishments old enough to have invented the fire (ok, the demo effect) was so happy to catch the Rolling Stones live in 1998, "just barely before they retire" advocated the movie Moonfall at work for over a year without getting fired
innes mck@innes.bsky.social · 2w agoweird accomplishments forced the minister of antiquities for egypt to explain that liquid inside a sacophagus was not drinkable crossed the last unmanned land border deep in the woods between canada + the US shipped a physical, disk based video game with no constant idea of "up"
There are ways to trim your videogame development budget, and then there are *ways* to trim your videogame development budget.
I was told you couldn't do 3D on the Playdate, so I did it. Then I was told there was no way I could create exterior levels like those in Mirror's Edge, so I proved them wrong again.
It's going to be fun to play with the Unity CLI and make a number of our existing automations simpler, but it's definitely beta. I imagine this makes the barely released mcp kind of obsolete, but who knows. Unity 7 is like CoreCLR and some stuff, but will be welcome.
My country has just banned Polymarket (proving that a state can also, sometimes, serve its citizens, not just the wealthy).
Polymarket : la France bloque l’accès sur son territoire au site de paris sur l’actualité
L’Autorité nationale des jeux considère que « ce site, aux audiences particulièrement élevées, fait la promotion d’une offre illégale de jeux d’argent et de hasard ».
lemonde.fr
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3w agoyeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets
Frank Miller's The Spirit (2007) What a godawful and unbearable piece of crap.
Defector@defector.com · 3w agoWhat's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...
What an incredible honor, and DOOM is the only video game on the list! Congrats to DOOM devs, players, modders, and the entire games community. This one is for all of us. Thanks @gene.meme and @washingtonpost.com !
I just found this fan-made "aspect ratio guide to The Odyssey" and . . . . . . what are we doing here folks
RIP Don Iwerks, "an innovator whose work brought The Disney Company to new technological heights, aiding in perfecting the sodium vapor process used in Mary Poppins, developing the 360-degree Circle-Vision camera and implementing the projection system for the fan-favorite Star Tours attraction."
The Hollywood Reporter@thr.com · 4w agoDon Iwerks, the Disney legend who spearheaded various camera and projection systems for the company’s parks and films, has died. He was 96.
RIP Wally Funk (1939-2026), one of the Mercury 13 (which inspired For All Mankind) Also: "In July 2021. Funk became the oldest woman to travel to space at the age of 82. During the 11-minute flight, Funk experienced a few moments of weightlessness and marveled at the darkness of space."
CNN@cnn.com · 4w agoWally Funk, a pioneering aviator who volunteered to be an astronaut for NASA’s “Women in Space Program” in 1961, has died at the age of 87. https://cnn.it/4foiJlL
Just because you see a problem doesn't mean that you now can solve it. Or that you know how to solve. Or that you know why it's a problem. Or even that it's actually a problem.
Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 4w agogame devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?
Sneak peek into the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM): There will be a #MathArt gallery, which is already #openAccess at www.imaginary.org/gallery/icm-.... It does feature my work "Heart of Domain Coloring" (with H. Lipschütz and U. Reitebuch). Go and give it a look!
I left EA yesterday and am now officially on summer vacation, woo! After a few weeks ill be joining Bolt Graphics, a startup GPU company, aiming to put the graphics back into graphics processing unit. It's a small company with a bold but respectable plan. Wish me / us luck! youtu.be/-fZM9wOvbh0?...
A New Gaming GPU Challenger: Bolt Graphics Takes Aim at NVIDIA
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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Here's my new devlog post, about underestimating scope: saffroncr.itch.io/katavatis/de...
Underestimating Scope
Preamble: About Software Methodologies Before we even begin discussing today's topic, there is something that needs to be addressed. A lot of game development production culture has been inherited fro...
saffroncr.itch.io
Wishing all the best to the thousand+ people who have been cut off from (re)building the Xbox platform and studios that so many of us loved once. And to those who stay with a sword dangling over their heads, be safe and sane, take care of each other, and hope for a brighter future.
Case in point: the staff of Blizzard Entertainment were told today that they won't hear how the reorganization impacts them until "further communications"
The protest, along with similar ones, had the intended effect: the Italian gender recognition law was passed less than two years later, on the fourteenth of April 1982, and is still in effect to this day. Here are two articles about the protest. Happy Tits Out for Freedom day, folks :) 8/8 (end)
