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Game industry pro @ Amazon Games, (Ex- DICE, Microsoft). Credited on Throne & Liberty, Battlefield, Apex, Need For Speed. Artist, Nerd, Totally competent adult 👍
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Yesterday, hackers stole over $1 billion in ETH crypto from ByBit. Early analysis points towards the “Lazarus Group,” a collective of North Korean hackers. Now is a great time to check out “The Lazarus Heist,” from the BBC. It delves into the group’s prior hacks and thefts.

Security researchers have discovered DeepSeek has publicly exposed databases containing API keys and prompt+chat history. Was this oversight by an inexperienced team or corner-cutting while trying to get the model online as quickly as possible. Either way, great view into data linked to AI

Yesterday's Marvel Rivals layoffs show that nobody is safe and it's left people asking, why would a big, new game be laying off important staff? Today, VB explores if fear (or gov mandate) is driving Chinese companies to divest in U.S. due to antagonistic tariffs and foreign policy. More to come?😨

“I help create billion-dollar franchises. My stellar, talented team just helped deliver an incredibly successful new franchise in Marvel Rivals for NetEase Games...and were just laid off!” - Thaddeus Sass

Trust us, we’ve learned absolutely nothing 🤗

@andymcattack.bsky.social, your boys are sending out emails with white text on a white background 🫠

Feels good to get dressed up for Valentines Day 😘

Is the “Wheels” mini-game inside “Sea of Stars” the best game-within-a-game since “Gwent?” I can’t stop playing it and wishing there was a more detailed version released as a mobile app ⚙️😺

More bad news, Crytek has just cut 15% of its staff and put Crysis 4 “on hold” while they reorganize. A cut this deep points to either poor forward planning by leadership and/or dramatic underperformance from current revenue streams like “Hunt: Showdown.”

It’s never good to see big game studios struggling and laying people off. The only silver lining is that this is often the catalyst for ambitious (and now jobless) devs to seek funding for their own studios. As Ubisoft spirals out of control, we’re going to see more new studios from form Ubi devs.

‘Tis the season, 😥 Yesterday it was Meta, today it’s more layoffs at Unity. I fear we’re going to see a lot of this between now and the start of the new fiscal year on April 1st.

Last night I tried the #DuneCrawl demo from @alientrap.bsky.social. It's a team based PvE coop game with a fantastic setting and aesthetic. It's a 20 mins of fun that still needs a lot of polish but the core already shines when you play with friends (not great solo). Some perf issues on Steam Deck

Sure, it's an extraction looter-shooter 🥱, but is @sharkmob.bsky.social about to do apocalyptic weather effects better than Battlefield 2042🌪️? Check out the @exoborne.bsky.social gameplay walkthrough they just dropped.

Speaking of NCSoft spinning off new, independent studios... one of the new studios is taking control of the game "LLL," a 3rd person shooter with mech combat. The most recent trailer looks like a hard-scifi future w/ movement and combat that isn't quite as good as Titanfall.

Anyone who's played Chrono Trigger knows that Lavos emerged in 1999. Maybe the game was off by about ~26 years.

If you like #ThroneAndLiberty and Korean MMOs, you might like to know that NCSoft has officially spun off three new game studios and an independent A.I. company. Throne and Liberty is now managed by "First Spark Games." Original article is in Korean, auto-translated to English.

Beethoven’s Symphony in C is a real banger, but I still prefer the memory safe, Symphony in Rust 🦀

DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT "Write a python script that simulates Conway's Game of Life." ⚡Functional Code? Both (but CGPT needed extra packages) ⚡Overall code quality: CGPT ⚡Better UX: DeepSeek ⚡Color scheme: Inverted 😵‍ Both A.I. models passed, likely ripping code straight from GitHub, like a true dev.

Right about now, it feels like we could use a time traveling mutant, from a dystopian future, fighting for a better tomorrow. Bishop is one of my favorite X-men, I had fun with this sketch ⚡ #art #comicart #inkart #BlackSky

I'm confident Battlefield is planning to launch their next game in Fall 2025, but is that a mistake given Take-Two just reiterated plans to launch GTA VI in the same window? Everyone planning a Fall '25 launch has to make a fight or flight decision vs. the GTA behemoth that will likely be GOTY.

Pretty fascinating analysis from Will McCahill about Civ 7's debut and subsequent negative Steam reviews. He compared how Civ 7 reviewers rated other games on Steam and produced this view showing what else Civ 7 haters and "enjoyers" like and dislike. Most notable to me are: ...

#AssassinsCreed will launch a #manga run alongside Assassin's Creed: Shadows. Details say it will be available on day 1 in Japan and localized to other languages later. I'm more hyped for this than I am for the game.

If your life savings is locked up in NVDA stock, don't even trip about DeepSeek and the surge in hyper-competitive A.I. companies. Ol' Jevon would like to assure you that increased efficiency leads to MORE resource consumption (not less). When A.I. is cheap everyone will want one, everywhere. #YOLO

A VC backed game company just bought "Brookhaven," a Roblox game with 120M MAU. The game is a "role playing" sim akin to NoPixel (A GTAV role play mod). Could RP experiences be the next Mods -> Indie -> AAA genre to blow up like BR and MOBAs of the past? What is Voldex going to do with Brookhaven?

Hachi machi! Enabling and rewarding bad decisions is an #gameindustry wide issue. Halo is another franchise that has not been treated well by its IP holders.

The "Battlefield Labs" trailer dropped today. It has 10 seconds of gameplay at the end of a 5 minute video. Here are a few hot takes: This is the the start of their marketing hype cycle. They're working on driving consumer awareness and intent to purchase. +Confidence of holiday 2025 ship date...