Gavin Young

*pointing at screen while the MGS2 scene when the ex president of the US is wearing a robot octopous suit and surfing a harrier flown by a vampire man plays and whispering to my date* Same thing happened to a buddy of mine

I had the chance to present at G-STAR/G-CON back in 2018 and it was a great experience - everyone was very friendly and the audience had a lot of insightful questions.

an image of Zohran Mamdani at a event, with the subheading "the mayor-elect has opened a portal"

He's taxing billionaires to fund the extremely costly Stargate program, which I think we can all agree is better late than never.

This guy watched Aladdin as a kid and assumed it was a contemporary documentary.

She really is the most stupid person on the planet. She's not good enough at this to be a clever grifter

"Don't panic yet, investors say, as high-flying AI stocks tumble"

These grifters also told you to keep holding on to your apes.

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

It’s time for this starship to take flight - Generation Exile has launched in Steam Early Access and is available right now!

store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

How poor leadership slows down game development No tool—AI or otherwise—can speed up game development if leaders don't rise to the occasion.

Lot of people I know and respect quoted in this piece for @gamedevelopers.bsky.social . Something I appreciate among the doom and gloom is also recognising when I have seen leaders in game dev chart paths around these traps. Great leaders help everyone around them do more with less.

Also big thanks for offering a slipcase for Issues 1-3 for those of us who already bought them individually 💖

A Profound Waste of Time: Issue 6 The beloved gaming mag returns, with Astro Bot's Nicolas Doucet, Danganronpa's Kazutaka Kodaka, Team Ninja's Fumihiko Yasuda and more!

Very excited for A Profound Waste of Time: Issue 6! I hadn't realised I had missed Issues 4 & 5, so really appreciate @cazwis.bsky.social and the team offering a bundle of this second "trilogy" of the magazine

www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...

Can't recommend enough listening to the first season of Blowback, especially for non-Americans, to understood just how cruel and evil Cheney was,

ditto for someone's code, writing, music etc

"brilliant assholes" cost you so many great contributions from other people and are never ever worth it.

Link your Ubisoft Connect Account to Rainbow Six Mobile to Get a Special Reward Starting next season with Operation Riptide, get a special reward when linking your Ubisoft Connect account to R6M.

Delighted to see the team have added this reward for players who link their accounts in R6 Mobile 💪

Locked in with @arimelber.bsky.social.

Wtfffff

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start

If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

Proudly cast votes for @transitionmontreal.bsky.social in our municipal elections 🤞

Someone needs to keep that woman away from space

I took a year off of work and have been finding that the number of games simply fills the time available regardless 😭

A thing I do every couple of years is get a cold and catch up on Doctor Who. Don't hate it, but it's very silly

Hot take but maybe firing thousands of software engineers, producers and testers and "replacing" them with AI wasn't such a great idea. These corporations have made their beds, and these DNS problems are lurking beneath them.

If you haven`t tried Black Mesa I really recommend it. They made Xen into one of the best parts of the game.

Hey folks! I hope ya’ll are well! Just a lil reminder that if you like my art (or Echo) you can support me on Ko-Fi as I look for work and try to get back on my feet. All money goes to paying bills. If you’re not in a position to help, sharing means a lot 💙 Thank you! ko-fi.com/belgianboolean

Stop putting people in charge of your Games division who don`t know the first thing about the games market and the people who play them.

Docked on Steam Return home to Port Wake and rebuild your family business. Docked is a realistic simulator where you operate heavy machinery, restore and develop the port's infrastructure, and manage day-to-day opera...

Docked! I've never worked at a port but this game makes it seem pretty cool. It's neat to see a simulator type game that manages to remain approachable for new players.

Is an FTUE-focused review of a demo something indies would appreciate? I've been developing games for 15 years, most of them with fairly sophisticated data tracking hooks, so I understand the cost of a sharp drop-off of players who haven't even reached the part of your game that is unique or fun.

It's part of brain I struggle to turn off: I often put myself in the shoes of a "occasional gamer who has been recommended this demo by a friend" and probably 7/10 times that player would quit within minutes.

The list goes on - I know this kind of polish is something traditionally handled in the later stages of development, but if you're releasing a public demo with an hour of playable content it's a real shame if some players won't play beyond the first 10 minutes.

Something I've noticed with a lot of Steam Next Fest demos is how unpolished the FTUE is: pop-ups that overlap, default volume at a crazy high level, not having any on-screen instructions when you first take control of your character, main menus without a clear "click this to start" button...