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You can tell China's car market has the mandate of heaven because they're getting a bunch of cool wagons.

Video game stocks are suddenly crashing today with the launch of Google's Project Genie as investors think games will start magically getting made with AI

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#GoogleGemini #TakeTwo #CDProjektRED #Roblox #videogames

Gaming stocks are dropping today after Google's rollout of Project Genie, an AI tool that lets users create and explore virtual worlds for 60 seconds. This is the result of a market that does not understand how video games are made. Allow me to suggest that the Street read Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

New Capitalist Casualties 7” LP dropped?

Grindcore is the new hustle culture In Silicon Valley, long hours have fused with a monastic male wellness aesthetic

I'm sorry but techbros don't get to coopt a perfectly good musical genre name. www.ft.com/content/d0b7...

If you're making the trip out to Vegas for #DICE this year, I'll be around the Aria talking about AA/AAA engineering team augmentation, external/co-development and where to find the best pizza in Las Vegas. Hit me up friends 🍕🍹🎰

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.

This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.

New tariff just dropped.

Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland.

It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June.

(Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).

Pragma expands advisory board with industry veterans Eugene Evans and Michael Borras | Michael Borras Friends, I’m excited today to join the Advisory Board of Pragma and help support my old friends Eden Chen and James Kuk, together with other Advisory Board members Michael Vorhaus and Eugene Evans 🔜 D...

BRB just doing games industry stuff - www.linkedin.com/posts/mikebo...

Hi! I'm Nina, I'm a 3D Artist from Austria 🇦🇹 and I am open to work!

I have 4 years of experience working on stylized props, enemies & environment art.

Feel free to reach out / share! 🧡

📧 niku30mail@gmail.com
🎨 www.artstation.com/niku30
👤 www.linkedin.com/in/nina-kunz...

#artjob #opentowork

Job opening: game designer @ Hidden Folks We're looking for a game designer in the Netherlands to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks.

friends! acquaintances! help!

i'm looking to hire a game designer (living in the Netherlands) to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks.

know someone who's a good fit? pls forward this, ty!

hiddenfolks.com/job-opening/...

A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.

A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...

Early-Bird-Submission for @amazefest.bsky.social. ends on December 31, regular submissions close on February 1..

A MAZE. celebrates the 15th edition of its awards across 8 categories and is looking for works that push the boundaries of playful arts.

Info&submission here: 2026.award.amaze-berlin.de

Heard crazy things and about the “Gunfire Reborn” team abandoning ship, but yikes 😬

The real takeaway here is that if Elon was to say this about China, the govt would shut down his business overnight and revoke access to the market.

But he can openly say this about the EU knowing full well any response will be slow, ineffective, and offset by US political backing.

Uber Eats is somehow always like “delivery in 17 minutes”, then once you order, it creeps up to 60+ minutes. Every. Time.

Apparently you can hedge your bets (travel) against rainy weather in LA now

All these games companies going on and on about Gen AI being such a huge productivity boost and yadda yadda.

Have any of you thought about boosting productivity by just transitioning away from Microsoft Office, Outlook, and Teams?

How does anyone anywhere get any work done with this crap?

Nintendo’s secret to becoming a design powerhouse? Developers who have stayed at the company for decades “The people who first made Nintendo’s hits are still working at the company,” says Keza MacDonald, author of a forthcoming book about the company.

💯 Western companies all racing to become the McDonald's of games need to take notes:

finance.yahoo.com/news/nintend...

Progressives Win in Seattle, Changing Directions on Public Safety Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.

Katie Wilson, Seattle’s newly elected mayor, has embraced a city-owned startup designed to emulate Vienna’s social housing model, which involves a public developer building housing designed to be permanently affordable.

The Game Awards logo with the text December 11 at Peacock Theater Los Angeles

Friends! I'll be home in LA during the week of the @thegameawards.com and Dec. 11th, you can specifically find me wandering the JW lobby pretending that it's peak E3. If you're around, let's catch up 🥂

No but seriously, how do we get @aoc.bsky.social, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, and @kumail.bsky.social in on a game of @rvthereyetgame.com?

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🎉 2 million sales in 8 days 🤯

You guys are crazy, thank you so much for the support!!

cc @rvthereyetgame.com !