Adam Orth

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On the #GameMakersNotebook, @adamorth.bsky.social chats w/ Cory Davis (Spec Ops: the Line) and Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails) about their distinct career paths and how they found each other, the audio-first approach they took with SLEEP AWAKE, the game's psychedelic dreamlike horror themes, and more!

I haven’t had more fun with buddies in a very long time than I’ve had with Arc Raiders. It’s obvs not co-op co-op but it feels like it.

Absolutely beautiful, Mike ❤️

THE PRICE YOU PAY

To the Raider that came out of the shadows, whispered “Gotcha” and executed me a split-second before the elevator doors closed while I was crawling on the ground dying with an absolute motherlode of rare and unbelievable loot I scavenged in my backpack:

RESPECT.

Holy sh*t Cairn looks incredible. Instant buy!

My latest @official-aias.bsky.social Game Makers Notebook episode with @obsidianent.bsky.social on the excellent Outer Worlds 2 is live…just in time for that long holiday drive or an escape from fixing your parents computers 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Really tired of apocalypse entertainment (in all mediums). There’s only 5% new things left to mine in these stories. They are all the same.

It’s worse than the actual slop.

The disease is strong. There is no cure.

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Same

100%

It’s…just a videogame…

The answer if you are an Apple user is their native Reminder + Notes apps. They play perfectly together. There’s literally a whole Trello/Jira/Notion thing n there and it’s free.

I’ve actually stopped using all non-native apps in favor of Apple native ecosystem apps now. They are so good now.

Pretty wild how all-in on hating this game you are and you’ve never even played it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

PS5

Arc Raiders is fantastic. PvP is great. The moment with players where you get help or get killed is thrilling and the small amount of times that I’ve been killed by a player and looted has always felt fair because it’s an established outcome of the design.

It has replaced Destiny for me.

Asking the tough, hard question that needs to be asked.

As a professional musician I was hired to create music for a 007 PS1 game. Over the course of 6 months, I started hanging around the dev studio learning. I turned the music in and they were like “ooops we hired somebody else to do it.” They threw me a temp QA gig as a bone. I never left.

Longtime game developer Rebecca Heineman passes away Rebecca Heineman, a longtime developer who spent decades on the craft of making games, has passed away.

Rest in peace, power and pixels, Burger ❤️

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JAMES

Anyone have experience with the Portal on Hotel WiFi while in a different country?

My Arc Raiders addiction has a death grip on me but also don’t want lug this thing to Europe today if it’s not happening 😬

Brother, this the game I’ve been waiting for my whole life.

Dublin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Steam Hardware The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.

I'm all-in on this entire ecosystem and never buying a PC ever again. Just put the bundle in my goddamned cart right now.

store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware

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Now you are stating to understand…

Great chat with @jg93.bsky.social here about his amazing career at Bethesda and beyond!