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Silksong Release Date Surprise Was "A Little Callous", Says Hell Is Us Lead "As the 'GTA 6 of indie'... to shadow drop something like this is a little callous," said creative director Jonathan Jacques-Belletête.

Callous is a strong word but I do get where he's coming from. Obviously Team Cherry have the right to shadow drop a date, but given their blast radius it might have been better had other games (particularly smaller ones) had more heads up thisweekinvideogames.com/news/hell-is...

Idk tbh - definitely going to play it but not sure about a review yet. A lot dropping this month.

Oh we eating good this weekend. Review on the 25th of September #ghostofyotei

Not long now. In just a short time we'll finally be playing it (Garfield Kart 2 - All You Can Drift).

Such a great write up from @superdonk.bsky.social. He's a long time Skate enjoyer and honestly, his perspective is so illuminating since I only really remember the series for its funny bails. There's was so much more to it, and it seems as though big chunks of that stuff is missing in the reboot.

Man I know I'm bias AF but damn - this is such a great write up.

About 3ish weeks now.

I've spoken to or heard from about 12 creators in our space atm - all reporting the same thing, with the same timing. Something is up. No question at all.

Honestly this is my theory.

Their segment (and my discussions with plenty of other creators) is how I know I'm not crazy (and that YouTube are lying).

I mean - that's possible, but only a TINY fraction of my audience was in the under 18 bracket, and I really doubt that the AI machine is getting it so wrong that it's wrongly age gating 30% of my audience.

Idk what dial YouTube turned but they definitely did something. Viewership is inexplicably down around 30% for myself and many channels I watch/follow. I've never blamed the algorithm for anything in my 10 years on YT, but this is too obvious to ignore. Spoken to others who have noticed it, too.

Extremely excited to have @victoriatran.bsky.social on board as a monthly columnist, providing insight into the world of indie games development and community management. Fantastic first piece too, covering the plague of clone games that plagiarize the work of game makers.

This is how Zack Snyder should have marketed Man of Steel.

Played about 2 hours of the Battlefield 6 beta. Absolutely floored by how well it runs, how stable the netcode is, how excellent the maps are, how solid the gunplay/sound design is, how well classes/squads work. Could not be more of a contrast from the first impression of 2042 all those years ago.

Pretty big stuff out of Sony: an expected launch window for Marathon (this financial year), an announcement that Bungie will become a PlayStation studio in a more traditional sense, and acknowledgement of Sony's live-service blunders to this point.

As Video-Game Media Struggles, Star YouTuber Launches New Outlet Websites like Polygon and Kotaku are facing huge challenges, opening opportunities for newcomers

Ralph "SkillUp" Panebianco has built a successful YouTube career with more than one million subscribers. So naturally, his next move is... to start a video game website?

I spoke to Panebianco about his new venture ("no ads, no AI") and why he's doing it: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

This is insane. Payment providers should not have the power to do this.

We asked the 1047 Games CEO how it could cost so much to maintain Splitgate 1. Here's what he had to say:

Splitgate developer 1047 Games is shutting down the original Splitgate, claiming that maintaining it was costing them 'hundreds of thousands of dollars'.

The game was averaging 130 peak CC players on steam. Can any game devs enlighten me as to how it was costing 1047 that much to keep the game up?

Just rolled credits on Donkey Kong Bananza. Utterly insane how back-loaded this game is. It simply never stops getting better from about the halfway point on.

Another generational W for Nintendo. Man, if this thing was day one on Switch 2 launch, it would have been a totally different conversation

How did @skillup.bsky.social get his start on YouTube?

What advice does he have for folks looking to build a successful YouTube channel?

Don't miss the latest MinnMax Interview! youtu.be/SJeB-MB0gVg

Delighted to be doing a monthly column for this. Ralph's a thoroughly good egg, the site's great, and the idea of a video guy pivoting to text is just proper world-gone-mad stuff, love it. Have a look!

Cloudflare literally shut us down because they thought it was a DDOS attack :/

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Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss' - Aftermath 'I'm struggling with imposter syndrome after being laid off'

Holy fuck aftermath.site/xbox-microso...

Disgusting

The editor of this video did a really job (whoever he is).

<3 u bb

YouTube video by Skill Up The impossible (true) stories behind the making of Clair Obscur Expedition 33

After 2 months of work, the Clair Obscur Expedition 33 video is here. I interviewed most of the game's senior leadership team asking one simple question: how did you do this? Their answers were inspiring and moving, and it's no surprise that COE33 is as remarkable as it is: youtu.be/mXLOLgC2V2Q?...