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The new torontogamesweek.com site for 2026 is live!

Created by @omarieclaire.bsky.social with assets illustrated by @michaeldeforge.bsky.social, you can play around on the website, while also finding information about our upcoming event!

You might even find a few easter eggs if you click around 👀

The Toronto Games Week 2026 poster. June 11-17, 2026. torontogamesweek.com. Red heading with light blue background. There are a bunch of circular bits with gaming related imagery.

We're thrilled to announce that Toronto Games Week will take place this year from June 11-17th, 2026!

This year's poster was created by Michael DeForge! We can't wait to celebrate playful arts and culture with you this June!

The People vs. ICE Renee Good’s death galvanized a city eager to push back against Trump’s invasion.

I wrote about Minneapolis.

nymag.com/intelligence...

YouTube video by Star Wars Explained Why Disney Struggles To Make Star Wars Movies

Disney struggles to make Star Wars movies.

Kathleen Kennedy's interview with Deadline suggests they're too scared to be bold or take any risks, and that's incredibly frustrating. youtu.be/qBTwEWZVMXE?...

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

100% this!👇

Not pissing off Elon Musk and Canada’s right-wing tech bros is far more important to Evan Solomon than protecting Canadians from deepfake sexual abuse and acting on child sexual abuse material.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't. By magicmosshka, yesterday's

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

The top Canadian games of 2025 When it comes to variety and originality, few do it as well as Canadian developers.

Couldn't let the year end without one of my favourite features.
I wrote about a bunch of the standout Canadian games of 2025. 🇨🇦 🎮
In a particularly difficult year, it's been genuinely inspiring to see Canadians making so many wonderful and creative experiences.
Here's to all of these talented devs!

Joachim Lykke @luhmann@hachyderm.io So when Trump decides to go get Greenland he's just going to fly in and kidnap our prime minister. Great. You have a unscrupulous and clinically insane idiot elected as your president and he wants to own the world. I have absolutely no trust in any of you Americans whether you are pronounced MAGA or if you "didn't vote for the guy": Your elected president is a megalomaniac dictator and it's your fucking responsibility to stop him

This guy has it bang on

If you're on the Death Star, nobody cares that you only did it for the college money

Running headlong into the barrier here at inkle. Next year we’re aiming for:

- TR-49 in January

- The Game Writing Kaleidoscope in February - 100+ essays by some the best game writers in the world

- Heaven’s Vault Book 4 in April - the quadrilogy reaches its conclusion

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

The Dread Pirate Robert Nozick A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

The Dread Pirate Robert Nozick -
existentialcomics.com/comic/631

An expo booth showcasing 13AM Games' video games Runbow and Dawn of the Monsters.

Fans playing Runbow and Dawn of the Monsters at the 13AM Games booth.

Thank you everyone who came by our booth at Toronto Games Expo, and thank you @corvianmarketing.bsky.social for taking us there!

Esto es flipante. Seis jueces y tres fiscales del Tribunal de la Haya que buscan juzgar a Netanyahu están sufriendo una persecución que ha eliminado su vida digital, convirtiendo su día a día en una pesadilla.
La UE, por supuesto, a por uvas.
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Anyway I hadn't heard anyone talking about this, so I guess I'm gonna talk about it. Spread the word if you're thinking about doing an nsfw KS project, Stripe apparently might pull your funding at literally any step of the process, with zero warning!

Rude Rude or impolite, including crude language and disrespectful comments, without constructive purpose. Highlighted Off, darkened Warn, and darkened Hide buttons.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

If you're sad you missed my "GameDev Lessons From Reading Jane Austen" talk, make sure to come to Bonus Stage every month, you never know when I might be up in the stage!

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

Narrative Design Intern, Summer 2026 (Jedi) - Respawn Entertainment | Hitmarker Respawn Entertainment is hiring a Narrative Design Intern, Summer 2026 (Jedi). Apply now on Hitmarker.

OPPORTUNITY - Respawn - Narrative Design Intern

Unaffiliated. Shares Welcome

hitmarker.net/jobs/respawn...

New York's Richest Ask 'how Dare He?' as Mamdani Closes In on City Hall The city's 1% realize their influence is waning: It's hard to be chill and relaxed'

It was just after finishing a set of pelvic floor exercises that a Pilates instructor on the Upper East Side recently brought up one of the least popular men in the neighborhood: New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani,. All of a sudden the class, which costs $50 a pop, became something of a political confab. In between sets, some women strategized about helping former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who they see as more palatable, pull off an upset. Others gushed about a recent New York Post cover depicting Gov. Kathy Hochul, who had recently endorsed Mamdani, as a devotee of Mao Zedong.

New York's richest residents can't stop talking about Mamdani, the Democratic nominee. To many of the city's uber-wealthy, his sustained popularity has been a shock. The 33-year-old, self. described Democratic Socialist is the overwhelming favorite to win City Hall next month, on a platform that includes free buses and free child care--programs that, the moneyed are well aware, somebody needs to shell out for. "I hope Mamdani is going to give out free Xanax," said Caroline Leventhal, a lifelong Upper East sider who co-founded 'Mic'd and Medicated," a podcast that dissects the lifestyle of cosmetic surgeries and private ski instructors. "It's hard to be chill and relaxed."

Feeling dehydrated? This quenched my thirst. www.wsj.com/us-news/zohr...

It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content

Mimiku

I hate it that in the comments for the original post there's someone who made the same joke with the exact same quote but 12 hours earlier.

First lines from Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Grok is this true

The Dawn of the Monsters DLC not only adds an Arcade Mode, but also combining-style mecha Meteor Temujin for all your kaiju-crushing needs! It (as well as the base game) is currently 65% off on Humble! https://bit.ly/DOTMDLC_HB

Text describing the current state of business in media and tech (and most industries, truly)

Kind of want to put this bit on a billboard somewhere (or, idk, replace every web ad everywhere with this text) bsky.app/profile/edzi...

Love this write-up ❤️
Captures exactly what we were going for with MCD!