Martin Lynagh

Dundee’s Games Cluster in the Spotlight as GAME-ER Research Project Seeks Local Expertise Everyone knows Dundee is the beating heart of Scotland's games ecosystem, but how many studios are based in the city? Researchers from Abertay University are calling upon the collective knowledge of the Dundee games community to help verify a comprehensive map of the city's renowned games cluster. The request comes as part of GAME-ER, a major European research project dedicated to understanding the dynamics of local and regional video game ecosystems.

The EU GAME-ER project at Abertay University is looking for local expertise to help verify its map of Dundee's game development community

sam altman tweet: i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now

These guys are simply not smart.

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement:

"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"

Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

It’s hard to look around—at Blair pitching a luxury resort to be built on the Gaza killing fields or Keir Starmer responding to anti-Asian hate by affirming his affinity for the perpetrators—and not conclude that the elite’s real problem with Corbyn was that he wasn’t sufficiently Islamophobic.

I think George Osborne openly musing to the air that the security services probably wouldn’t have tolerated Labour winning in 2017, because of our relationship with America, is quite helpful and I’d like to hear more.

Sensationally, it appears the grown ups have been put back in charge of the grown ups who were previously put back in charge

I missed this when it happened and anyone who has ever used an analog synth is going to embarrass themselves laughing at this. Thank u Greg www.tumblr.com/decanting-ce...

the last two news stories i saw, one after another, were israel bombing nasser hospital in gaza and then this one. genuinely ashamed of the UK right now

Compare the amount of coverage of a thousand or so fascist "protestors" has received with the tens and hundreds of thousands of left wing protestors over the years (austerity, Gaza, Iraq, BLM etc)

Some are painted as "legitimate concerns", others as noise or naive demands

Ask yourself why

(returning to work after a week of vacation and i don't remember how to do emails anymore): greetings, to my colleagues in officemongering

Still one of the best most important books of this century. Just saw fantastic in its clarity of analysis, and virtually unassailable in the breadth of its evidence from history and anthropology.

Labour MP: legitimate concerns

as someone who likes to see the best in people the number of fuckers falling for the computer saying "while i'm just a chatbot... i think you're really special! ;)" is testing me

Abertay’s ‘Play For Good’ To Showcase the Power of Games at RSE Curious Festival The transformative power of video games to address real-world challenges will be on full display this September, as Abertay University's Applied Games Lab presents its Play for Good exhibition as part of the prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh's Curious festival of knowledge. This is a significant and welcome inclusion, demonstrating the growing recognition of games as a powerful tool for social and cultural impact.

The 'Play For Good' exhibition from Abertays Games Lab is a major part of the RSE's 2025 Curious festival in September 2025.

#GIGF25 is in full swing! With talks and games a plenty. Thanks to everyone who showed us support <3

#festival #indiegames #convention #scotland #glasgow

Tweet by Bristol post reporter

400 counter protestors vs 15 fascists in Bristol

And yet it is the latter who are painted as expressing the "legitimate grievances" of "the people" by the mainstream media and politicians

This leads to emboldening and mainstreaming and it is a top down effect

European Gaming Emissions, and how we address them I was asked earlier this week by Joost Raessens (Utrecht University Professor, and coordinator of STRATEGIES: Sustainable Transition for Europe’s Game Industries a major Horizon-funded research projec...

I have done almost zero promo/sharing of the work I've done this year, so let's correct that with a thread of stuff I've written, worked on, helped with, etc.

I started the year with a post about European gaming emissions & what we can do about them.
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Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT "For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."

Man Gave Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT

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this will open the floodgates

It wouldn’t have been possible to turn aid delivery into daily machine gun massacres of civilians without all kinds of important people agreeing to pretend they were terrified that the UN aid programme was a terrorist enterprise. Specific people, whose statements are publicly available.

Agent Squidge is a silly, cooperative, physics based stealth game by @brainleakstudios.bsky.social! Go rogue or duo as the best of the worst that infiltrates a very evil corporation.

Do wobbly, sneaky puzzle co-op games interest you? Come to #GIGF25 and play Agent Squidge yourself! :3

Try to imagine any other context where a news presenter describes credible reports that soldiers have been shooting huge numbers of teenagers and children *for sport*, for fun, and a politician gives this reaction.

I imagine the public can see very clearly how this stuff doesn’t match up terribly well with what they’ve had screamed at them for two years: that the people opposing this are extremist “hate marchers”.

The Honours Project, an autobiographical walking simulator by Scott Cambell, provides dark and sometimes comical dialogue about being a student in game development.

Do dream-like, relatable narrative games interest you? Come to #GIGF25 and play The Honours Project yourself! :3

A feature of the british politcial-media class is they exist in an eternal state of now. None of them gamed out "one day everybody in gaza will be starving." It is just a thing that has happened, now, like an earthquake

Riiiiidddgggeeee Raaaaccceerrrr Ziiiinnnneeeee

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If only there had been people ten years ago who said mainstream politicians and press were unifying around overtly racist, increasingly National Front politics, while terrifying the public with largely fraudulent concerns about Palestinian Solidarity as a way of suppressing and excluding the left 🤷🏼‍♂️

Play the Future of Scottish Games at DCA’s DARE Academy Showcase Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) is set to host a special gaming showcase, offering the public a chance to play brand-new games created by some of Scotland's most exciting emerging talent. The Drop in and Play x DARE Academy event is a free, family-friendly session taking place on Saturday, 30 August 2025. Running from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM, the drop-in event will transform DCA's Meeting Room and ground floor into an interactive arcade.

Drop In And Play x DARE Academy hits the DCA on Saturday August 30 - come and play brand new games from developers across Scotland.

Politics can be complex, but every so often it’s pretty easy to tell which side of history you’re on. For example, if you require the police to arrest elderly ladies for peacefully protesting against genocide, that’ll probably be the wrong side.

Comic strip by Stephen Collins, it begins with a nighttime city scene. In the next few panels, a mysterious figure, giant in the moonlight, walks towards us through the skyline. His feet echo "boom, boom" in the empty night. A large title panel declares this character's name: THE TW*T COLLECTOR. He stands, giant, unseen in the empty city night, wearing a big pointy hat on his head, and a sort of long smock. He is carrying a large sack in his hand. Slowly, he raises his arm, his arm extends, freakishly long, longer still, through the open window of a tower block. It reaches inside someone's home, and slowly withdraws, now clutching a protesting, terrified man. The man's wife comes to the window to watch his departure. slowly, the giant raises the little man and inspectes him in his hand. After a pause, the man says "b-but I'm not a tw*t!" There is another pause, after which his wife, calmly from off screen, says "you are a tw*t, dear". The Tw*t Collector summarily throws the man in his bag, which we now see is full of screaming people and is labelled TW*TS, then stomps off into the distance, through the moonlit city.

Sometimes, I long for him