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Interview with former Diablo 4 lead Adam Jackson We have a special Diablo Podcast for you today. We managed to pin down former Diablo 4 lead Adam Jackson.

Something special for you all today. We pinned down former Diablo 4 lead Adam Jackson, who tells us about his work on the game and what it's like to work in the dev team. You can watch or read the interview. Don't miss this.

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#diablo4 #diabloIV #diablo

someone in a podcast I listened to today said like "all the developers that worked on legendary games in the 90s would never be able to get into the industry today" and I think that might be entirely accurate

There is no second marshmallow.

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

“That’s going to have a knock on effect.”

“Oh, my God. I hadn’t realised that.”

“It’s just extraordinary that I hadn’t thought of this”

“and nobody had made me aware of it.”

New Grand Designs episode aka the closest thing to any game production process I’ve ever seen on tv including any attempt at fiction

Some amazing #MYSTober submissions have begun rolling in! We'll be sharing a selection of our favorites twice a week until the end of the month. Keep the creativity flowing, as there are plenty more prompts to go!!!

Save 50% on TUNIC on Steam Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

16. Tunic

I'm gonna say as little as possible about what makes this game so special, because a lot of Tunic's magic is in the joy of discovery, so you'll have forgive me if I seem vague and tell you to trust me, but... Trust me on this. Play Tunic. I won't elaborate.

Save 25% on Skin Deep on Steam Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this ...

Buy our videogame it's on sale it has good jokes store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

Zombies, they're making themselves zombies

Gaming Legend Rebecca Heineman Could Really Do With Your Positive Vibes Right Now Heineman's career in games stretches back over 40 years

www.timeextension.com/news/2025/10...

a screenshot of a steam review for expedition 33 which praises the game endlessly but gives it a negative rating as a joke

steams algorithm looks at the big thumbs up or thumbs down, not the actual words in your review. on my hands and knees begging people to stop doing this it literally only ever harms your favorite developers

Very cool that this is seen as wise and noble cost-cutting and not obliterating entire career paths for US-based developers. Like each of those cells in your spreadsheet is a person who can no longer get a job doing their chosen vocation.

so this happened a long time ago in Animation and basically here's what happened:
* 95% of the US animation industry was obliterated and all that was left was management positions or people doing 5 jobs at once
* basically the entire skill/knowledge base went away within a single generation

And even if tariffs get wiped out, I'm not hopeful we'll see costs come down. Inflation turns into greedflation very easily when your company is managed via spreadsheet.

Anyway... been a miserable week for labor, and I wanted to get some of this down as wrap-up thoughts before I switch my brain off

this brings to mind a recent episode of The Game Business Show that points out over 50% of the job cuts in video games are in california. it's about cost. i really feel like we're at a critical moment and we do not have the leadership to prevent the worst outcome

youtu.be/LpO_VUj6228?...

A model of the first level from Mario 64.

A model of a snowy level from Mario 64.

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

No one, and I mean NO ONE, in Hollywood is talking about Tilly Norwood except over drinks for a chuckle. Actors are such an important part of the creative process - you want an actor who can surprise you every take, not one whose performance you dial up and down on a laptop. This is an ad campaign.

"Sora removes all creative barriers and unlocks the power of everybody's imagination" and every other post is just "what if darth vader was a bird".

Reminder: they're STILL taking all of our work + we STILL need (especially Cali) signatures on the petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.

TLDR= this'll require transparency about what's in AI datasets!

Signing takes 1 min. Once done, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963

When I first got to the big, slumped over monster who wanted me to bring him a flame for his lantern I was like "oh yeah these folks love Dark Souls".

No it fucking doesn’t

ahh good shit in this indiana jones game dev talk by Zeke Virant. talking about their "hand shapes" and grip system... they made all these box / cylinder / 1h / 2h presets, "we used small cylinder a lot" (screenshots from the live twitch right now -- www.twitch.tv/nyugamecenter )

talking to some other vancouver/seattle area indie devs and it's just like a procession of "oh yeah northernlion was the only reason my game got any sales" "oh yeah me too" "same" "yea"

Trying to find a job in video games right now is like crawling through hell:

aftermath.site/video-game-rec...

Check out this amazing remastered (at 4k!) version of "The Making of Myst" mini-doc! Originally included on the Myst CD-ROM in 1993, this version has been carefully recreated by Ted Sase using footage preserved by the VGHF!
https://youtu.be/xBtLZDPnYlM

Director, Gen Al for Games Los Angeles, CA (On-site) ...your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your c the market range. The range for this role is $430,000 - $840,000.

"Sorry, there's just no money for new projects" "we have to lay off hundreds of people to cut costs" "that show/game/studio has been canceled and closed due to lack of profits"

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

Workers at ZA/UM Announce Landmark Recognition Agreement - IWGB Game Workers Video game developers at ZA/UM Studio, represented by the IWGB (Independent Workers Union of Great Britain) have today announced their formation of a union at their workplace. After a negotiation proc...

The workers at ZA/UM Studio have unionized.

First recognised games union in the UK, too. May many others follow.

www.gameworkers.co.uk/workers-at-z...

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Over 14k jobs on the line and 20 billion debt on top on a bet that even if by the smallest of chance works out it leads to still thousands of families negatively impacted. Nobody dealing with money in that kind of volume are smart just gamblers and on a hot streak that will end at some point.