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this also happened to van gogh

🚀🚀LITTLE ROCKET LAB IS OUT NOW!!! 🚀🚀

4 years of development, finally available on Steam and Game Pass

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RTs unbelievably appreciated!! <3

yeah been hearing about a very big DDOS unfortunately

Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

"ZA/UM union workers will be represented by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain. Studio management has recognized the fledging union and will meet regularly with a committee of elected workplace representatives."

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many commentators agree that — like microplastics, pyramid schemes, and toxoplasmosis — generative AI is now "here to stay"

a career in videogame publishing ohohoho

that's why they're called that

some people might be concerned with the question of which games are "Art" or not, so let's clear that up: a game is only Art if it's made by Electronic Arts

they correlate strongly

doom? slop. thief? trash. deus ex? despite also being an imsim, its slop.

this is unrelated to whether they're "good" or "bad", which is something for children to argue about

every game is either slop or trash

YouTube confirms AI alterations to Shorts, raising concerns among creators YouTube has acknowledged that it has been using artificial intelligence to make video enhancements on its platform without first informing creators. The undisclosed changes, applied to a...

they started doing that recently yeah

not that EA was the last pillar holding it up but the fact that this can happen to EA makes it clear how fast the juice is running out yk

okay yeah, not right now but will consider it

think AAA might be donezo lads

EA privately acquired in $55bn deal by group of investors, including Saudi Arabia's investment fund and Donald Trump's son-in-law EA has officially been acquired by a group of investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund in a private tr…

private equity read that schreier piece about there being too many videogames and decided to help :)

no special insight into telltale but it sounds like the engine was a victim of chronic underinvestment, which indicates a broader management issue. obviously the technology issue had further knock-on effects but it's a symptom as much as a cause

Lady Dracula Demo on Steam The Demo for Lady Dracula, an upcoming Classicvania (linear vampire platformer). Turn into a bat and wraith, and use your whip, sword and throwing scythe to battle across six stages from the full game...

Go download the demo for Lady Dracula!(As seen on the Woke and Gay charity stream)I interviewed @gothdonutgames.bsky.social this week for a piece I’m writing for@hard-drive.net about her incredibly cool looking game.

store.steampowered.com/app/4044270/...

A Morrowind super interview has been created. This is a nearly eight hour long interview on Morrowind featuring Ken Rolston, Michael Kirkbride, Kurt Kuhlmann, Douglas Goodall, Mark Nelson, Mark Bullock, Noah Berry, Christine Miller, Jason Carl Ruddy, Matt Picioccio, Scott Hoffman, Juan Sanchez, 1/2

For by bungling in the worſt part o'th' Mathematicks, from ſaucy Jack in an inſtant he commences Maſter Doctor; no ſooner has he learn'd the Myftery to ſet a figure, but he fancies himſelf, a whole Sphear above Tycho Brahe, or Fryar Bacon; and is more proud of the knack of finding out part of Fortune, than Columbus of diſcovering the new golden world, or our Modern Navigators the Northerne Indies; thence-forwards his cloven Tongue is tipt with Prophecy, he never opens his mouth, but tis Bearded with a Planet; let the diſcourſe be what it will, he ſtill ſpeaks Aſtrology, and magnifies Urania,though she may be (for ought he knows to the contrary) a footer gf ſtockings. Ask him what 'tis a clock, he anſwers, Sol [...]

this is gonna be no practical use to you but check out 'The Character of a Quack-Aſtrologer, or, The Spurious Prognoſticator Anatomiz'd' (1673) by William Ramesey, a 17th-century astrologer who was extremely mad about nameless other astrologers (actually one specific guy) doing astrology wrong

logo for upcoming dungeon RPG The Black Tower by Axile Studio

please look forward to it

unlike randy pitchford we did actually code our own engine for The Black Tower, our upcoming dungeon RPG set in medieval times

congrat

Hundreds of content moderators are being laid off by TikTok.

Now they're unionising and speaking out.

@cwunews.bsky.social

this post was two years ago, how many people got the money since then

according to the one 3DO enjoyer I know: Guardian War

hate to say it but a lot of the people trying to make sense of this just aren't online enough