Let's not forget how quickly the tech executives got on their knees and kissed up to Trump immediately after he was elected. No flip-flopping allowed, fellas! You made your bed. You loved being friends with the Trump admin. www.cnbc.com/2024/11/06/t...

LinkedIn now uses your content so it and its dodgy mates can train gen AI models. It's automatically set to on because of course it is. Turn it off by going to settings > data & privacy.

EDF are a big bag of shits. Pass it on.

So happy Mayfly was featured in this year’s Horror Game Awards Harvest of Terror. 😱 Here’s the brand new trailer which premiered: Mayfly trailer | Narrowboat psychological horror | Coming 2027 buff.ly/JNSHz3A #gamedev #psychologicalhorror #gametrailer #ukcanals #indiegame #solodev

Mayfly trailer | Narrowboat psychological horror | Coming 2027

Mayfly is a first-person psychological horror game set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. You wake alone to find your husband is missing as you weave through a shifting, unstable reality.…

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Lots of brilliant bugs in FC27. This is a new one. Guy takes a penalty. Rather than kicking the ball he steps over it. Now he’s stuck in this weird pose and the game can’t continue.

70 Up is a real gut punch. Like that scene in Interstellar, it made me feel like the ground had disappeared from beneath my feet. The same feeling I get when I stand at the edge of a tall building. Loved it.

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Better Offline monologue: I run through the nonsensical, pro-AI lab scare campaign driven by a former researcher, how the media keeps falling for grifts, and how dangerous AI is already in the wrong hands - those of Anthropic and OpenAI. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · September 11 · 16m

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They’re fucking coming after me in the comments. They’re saying it’s not Christmas.

Perfect couple of posts summarising the Wolverine / AAA space.

I've been playing through Everafter Falls with my daughter. A really solid Harvest Moon-like with co-op. I will never get bored of growing potatoes in games.

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NEW: I spoke with multiple current EA workers who said many inside the company have become trapped in a 'state of cynicism' after the publisher was bought by an investor group led by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. Feelings of shame and uncertainty are the new normal, but where can they turn?

EA workers trapped in a maelstrom of uncertainty after Saudi deal

Current EA employees share their views on how the publisher's seismic $55 billion buyout will impact the people behind its popular franchises.

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Looking for a new role again comrades, Any Mid-Snr QA, Jnr Producer or Junior Programmer roles are all welcome. Also got some freedom to work on some other interesting projects if anyone needs fresh set of eager eyes. #gamedev

Be interesting to see how they handle monetisation. It’s famously obnoxious in their NBA game. Doubt they’ll go that hard if they’re trying to attract the FC audience.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 3mo ago

2K has announced an “ambitious” new sports studio led by EA Sports FIFA veterans, which it says is building its “next blockbuster sports franchise”. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/2k-unve...

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Sometimes you just have to let it go

I'm sure that working in social media - dealing with people as mass statistical abstractions - is a cognitohazard, the sort of thing that could make anyone a little solipsistic, convinced that everyone else is a kind of stimulus-responding automaton lacking the interiority that you experience. 1/

Boss defeated! Feeling confident that it's going to stick.

Tom Champion@tomchampion.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Been off the booze for 10 months. In a couple of weeks, I take on the final boss of sobriety: a stag do.

Uefa: No UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety and binding assurances have been given that FIFA will never again open its governance or competitions to private ownership.

Attempting to start a Halo local coop campaign has to be one of the most needlessly infuriating exercises in all of gaming. Wtf

Enough is never enough for this vile man.

World Cup for sale: Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in tournament

Fifa president could become ‘commissioner’ of new company in plan discussed with Trump’s administration, but critics fear it’ll be a ‘nuclear bomb’ for the game

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As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to hang out in the middle east while he starts the same war every day. when a missile blasts you into pieces he'll say your last words were "we must build a new ballroom in the white house" before your body is even cold. good luck soldier

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"

it's this in pretty much every industry forever. i've been laid off maybe 4, 5 times since 2008. i've lost count! it doesn't matter what you do, how cool it is, how important it is, what difference it makes, all will fall before the mighty blade of some guy with a spreadsheet

Brad Whipple@bradwhipple.bsky.social · 4mo ago

mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.

NEW: I spoke to multiple people impacted by the job cuts at Xbox to understand how the latest round of mass layoffs played out and what it means for the embattled video game division moving forward. This is their story.

Inside the latest round of mass layoffs at Xbox

Multiple workers impacted by the latest job cuts at Xbox believe the decision will hamstring some studios.

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I remember as a kid playing this at a weird pyramid-shaped swimming pool in Bedford.

Andy@loveretrobtw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Sega Time Traveler arcade machine was incredibly rare to see in the wild. Growing up in North Jersey, I was lucky enough to have one at Sports World, and seeing one again recently at Barcade in Highland Park, CA brought back memories. Did anyone else ever get to play one?