Megan

Stay safe Liam. The industry seriously needs to move or replace GDC.

Either some very early spring Crocuses or very late winter ones.

Even making well reviewed and top selling games in this industry can't save you if you have any lull in output. What a waste of talent. Many will likely exit the industry, and any team dynamics they've built will be lost.

A screenshot of a Steam top sellers list for the "horses" category. Shown in order are "Umamusume", "Red Dead Redemption 2", and "Rival Stars Horse Racing"

Super awesome that a game I worked on, from a small NZ fully-independent studio, is still in the top 3 horse games on Steam all these years later. From the Steam Horse Fest store.steampowered.com/category/hor...

YouTube video by Benn Jordan Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons

As always, you don't hate gen AI enough www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP8...

Wait till you hear about the crunch in the crisps industry.

BAMF confirms German integration course cuts The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has confirmed that it will significantly limit access to German integration courses.

I'm very confused at this news. Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (federal ministry for migration and refugees) is cutting integration course subsidies for everyone. It's stupid as fuck but the thing I'm confused about is this article saying anyone could apply. Was that ever the case?

The real face of "trickle down" economics.

Rest in peace, Bayonetta A full-spoiler explanation as to why queer fans like me felt so disappointed by Bayonetta 3

Relitigating disappointing plot decisions from a 4-year-old game? Why yes, we will, thanks. By @midimyers.com
www.mothership.blog/rest-in-peac...

I feel very seen with this. Thank you Maddy.

Extremely pleased to bring The Games Press back today with Mothership's @midimyers.com & @zoehhannah.com!

We talk about the current state of feminist writing in the games media, whether "subscription fatigue" is real & how they've processed what happened to them & their former coworkers at Polygon.

I see a lot of discussion about the gameplay of #Cairn. Not a lot (positive) about Aava, the protagonist. She is just a great character, even if she isn't "likeable". Incredibly human, stubborn and flawed. I don't think she's commentary on mountaineers like some seem to think, but on escapism.

The constant game dev quandary of keeping up with game news while doing yourself mental harm as executives, some of the media, and the public join in on beating you when you’re down.

"Hey we finally found this great, non-problematic use for AI!"
> Look inside
> It's machine learning

Specialised, trained neural networks were never the problem.

YouTube video by PlayStation Horizon Hunters Gathering - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games

This looks like it could be a lot of fun.

I witnessed something unbelievably out of touch with reality today and all I can do to vent about it contractually is vague post.

„Democracy dies in Darkness“ rings about as hollow as „Don’t be evil“

Save 15% on The Last Starship on Steam The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star...

Pleasantly surprised that indie OGs Introversion are still kicking and released a game today store.steampowered.com/app/1857080/...

YouTube video by Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America

Don't know if Adam has seen this video, but his investigation into who is behind Suno shows some very familiar names revealed in this www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpP...

YouTube video by Adam Neely Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future

This is an incredible video essay by @adamneely.bsky.social Spoilers: unfortunately techno feudalism is involved in this too www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...

Gotta remind myself that I still have a job in an industry that I love, with a team I enjoy working with - made up of good and skilled people.

Good lord this week is testing all my resilience skills and making me appreciate my team more and more.

Oh ffs, Native Instruments (developers of the audio plugin platform Kontakt) have started insolvency proceedings. They got bought by private equity not so long ago. Kontakt Player is something pretty much every audio producer owns as it hosts the vast majority of sampled instrument libraries.

Save 20% on Adaptory on Steam Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figu...

A friend of mine in NZ just released her solo indie dev game, Adaptory, into early access. If you're a fan of games like Oxygen Not Included, and automation games, please check it out store.steampowered.com/app/2201620/... #indiegames

A screenshot of an RSS icon on the new Mothership.blog site.

It's a beautiful thing to see this icon in 2026 @mothership.blog

DW is awful with their use of passive voice. Unfortunately they're some of the only English language coverage of domestic news (reading newspaper German is beyond me at the moment)

Rest assured, employees at Ubisoft are always the last to learn anything about our company. My shock is as big as yours.

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If anyone is looking for European Gmail alternatives that allow custom domains, I’m pretty happy with mailbox.org. They’ve made some big improvements to their 2fa and interface recently and there’s both English and German language support.

The situations where it worries me is where programmers will use it for languages they're unfamiliar with, but then we've never been good with Dunning Kruger as a collective profession.