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Writer: Zephon, Endless Space 2 ([email protected]) Senior Editor: Game Developer ([email protected]) Otherwise: There’s a better world out there. Still looking for it. Portfolio: www.bryantfrancis.me

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I think going full MAGA could have been a successful business strategy but hey it’s not retreating, it’s advancing in the opposite direction.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

So this past weekend, I interviewed the Splitgate 2 director, during which he said he stood by the decision to wear the hat and declined to apologize. Then, ten minutes after I submitted the story to my editor, he apologized. So uh! Here's this! www.ign.com/articles/spl...

submitted 7 hours ago • 58 comments

1047 Games CEO posted an apology on Twitter for his "Make FPS Great Again" hat. "I hate seeing division—on both sides. There's division in the community. For that I am truly sorry. I do stand by the intent of this which the intent truly is...we do want to improve this genre." x.com/Splitgate/st...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Reading Karen Hao's Empire of AI, and I really wish more people understood the degree to which AGI boosters are desperately trying to get everyone to believe in a technology that does not now and might not ever exist

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

History books will be like, “LA had fires in winter and ICE in summer.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Nintendo just announced a Splatoon spinoff called Splatoon Raiders via the Nintendo Today app. Wild stuff.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Yes!!!! Congrats to SAG-AFTRA!!!!

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

FUCK YOU I SCREAM WALKING BACKWARDS INTO HELL

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Nothing like yelling about how much a place isn't cool to make it cooler in the eyes of its users and would-be users.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Well I think this is official confirmation that Bluesky has the Juice

submitted 1 day ago • 474 comments

And a not-for-profit named Dot

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Clair Obscur has revealed I am an absolute sicko who burns four hours on a side boss not for the loot but the sheer principle of it.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

the trump movement has inculcated a genuinely rotten contempt for life in our collective political life and the real challenge will be extirpating it in favor of life-affirming solidarity youtu.be/Em6hb2Mg0XA?...

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

Turning 35 today. Best birthday gift so far—hosting a joint birthday party with @carlivelocci.com in our new house. 🥰🥰🥰

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

CCGs, a genre where people famously don’t care about the quality of the card art.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

and of course, aside from the other issues, this would cost a tremendous amount of money that the university would funnel to a corporation rather than investing in faculty to actually, you know, teach.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Yoooo @nathangrayson.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Not touching the solo dev discourse outside of snarky comments during the show but do want to ask when did we decide '30 devs' was a small team??? Napkin math, 30 dev core team for 3 years => $10-15M budget depending on location, excluding any O/S spend or marketing

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

It also conveniently avoids looking at the real problem with video games at the moment. There is so much bureaucracy and middle-management based BS that hampers creativity and greatly lengthens development times. That isn't going to go away with less devs.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

“Come on guuuysssss please stop yelling at me.”

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It’s incredibly noticeable how often ‘and an army of outsourcers outside America and Western Europe’ is left out of these team sizes. That’s the part I find real uncomfortable.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

This year's Summer Games Fest presentation was really concerned with how few people made a lot of those games, huh? It feels kinda fucked up. Not just because they're often misrepresntating the real size of these teams, but because I think it's playing directly into a new(ish) flavour of dev hate.

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

This is that “deprofessionalization” shit front and center. Devaluing developer labor so everyone around the studio can profit in some way. Rage-bait content creators, Outsourcers, localization companies, toolmakers, publishers, platforms, investors—they all have a lot to gain!

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Also the cherry on top of this shit sundae is the fact that all this was to promote Splitgate 2 adding a battle royale mode, which itself is one of the most tired-ass shooter conventions in recent years

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Remembering when I wrote an angry blog about having teabag counter and their PR rep sent me an angry email chewing me out over it.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment