Rik Godwin
@rikgodwin.bsky.social
He/him. Lead Writer @Ubisoft Bordeaux, Assassin's Creed: Claws of Awaji. Prev: actezero, Harmony: The Fall of Reverie, Atlas Fallen, Under the Waves, Chinatown Detective Agency (bits of Night Call).
Vehemently anti-GenAI
Vehemently anti-GenAI
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Rik Godwin
@rikgodwin.bsky.social
· Sep 16
Assassin's Creed Shadows - Official Claws of Awaji DLC Launch Trailer
YouTube video by IGN
youtu.be
Two years of work. A cross-country move. A new life, a new role, a new team. After all that...
Claws of Awaji is here!
Claws of Awaji is here!
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For all that he was a legend of the theatre, perhaps Stoppard’s finest work was on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I’m not kidding. www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
November 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
For all that he was a legend of the theatre, perhaps Stoppard’s finest work was on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I’m not kidding. www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
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Hard, hard agree, it's one of the most immediately perfect games I've played in years.
Absolutely terrible choice of name however. I've seen it referred to as Sekiro *multiple* times.
Absolutely terrible choice of name however. I've seen it referred to as Sekiro *multiple* times.
Technical perfection, an incredible soundtrack, and impossible to put down: Sektori is one of the best games of the year and every sicko needs to play it. aftermath.site/sektori-shoote...
Sektori Is The Technically Perfect Heir To Geometry Wars
I need every sicko reading this to play Sektori right now.
aftermath.site
November 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Hard, hard agree, it's one of the most immediately perfect games I've played in years.
Absolutely terrible choice of name however. I've seen it referred to as Sekiro *multiple* times.
Absolutely terrible choice of name however. I've seen it referred to as Sekiro *multiple* times.
Uh oh Stranger Things S5 is bad, huh?
And it's landed with like, zero impact? I didn't even know it had released until I was browsing.
And it's landed with like, zero impact? I didn't even know it had released until I was browsing.
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Uh oh Stranger Things S5 is bad, huh?
And it's landed with like, zero impact? I didn't even know it had released until I was browsing.
And it's landed with like, zero impact? I didn't even know it had released until I was browsing.
👀
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
👀
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I need to replay it, but Planescape: Torment remains an all timer. One of the best written games ever made.
November 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I need to replay it, but Planescape: Torment remains an all timer. One of the best written games ever made.
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Then we should do as its title suggests
Made with AI - Let it Die sequel Inferno discloses substantial generative AI use www.eurogamer.net/made-with-ai...
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Then we should do as its title suggests
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I guess I'm doing this then... 🎄🥳
Interest and details form here: forms.gle/Ydt1R7YoQD5g...
Devs and other creators welcome to apply to sponsor prizes! 💜 #pointandclickmas
Interest and details form here: forms.gle/Ydt1R7YoQD5g...
Devs and other creators welcome to apply to sponsor prizes! 💜 #pointandclickmas
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I guess I'm doing this then... 🎄🥳
Interest and details form here: forms.gle/Ydt1R7YoQD5g...
Devs and other creators welcome to apply to sponsor prizes! 💜 #pointandclickmas
Interest and details form here: forms.gle/Ydt1R7YoQD5g...
Devs and other creators welcome to apply to sponsor prizes! 💜 #pointandclickmas
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THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR TODAY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEGA DREAMCAST I MISS YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEGA DREAMCAST I MISS YOU
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR TODAY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEGA DREAMCAST I MISS YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEGA DREAMCAST I MISS YOU
Mystérieusement hanté par Frog and Toad Are Friends (j'en ignorais le nom il y a encore 20 secondes, j'avais jamais pensé à le googler) et en particulier par cette page. Une leçon de vie qui vaut bien toutes les formations en journalisme.
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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I just find this really sad. Imagine being so certain that you need slop machines to do your work, that you convince yourself that EVERYBODY must need them.
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
r/pcgaming
www.reddit.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I just find this really sad. Imagine being so certain that you need slop machines to do your work, that you convince yourself that EVERYBODY must need them.
About the only thing keeping me afloat right now is the prospect of mainlining all the Bob's Burgers Christmas episodes come December 1st.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
About the only thing keeping me afloat right now is the prospect of mainlining all the Bob's Burgers Christmas episodes come December 1st.
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"Epic CEO angry that customers want to be informed and will refuse to purchase products they feel were made unethically so wants to take that choice away". There, fixed it for you.
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
r/pcgaming
www.reddit.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"Epic CEO angry that customers want to be informed and will refuse to purchase products they feel were made unethically so wants to take that choice away". There, fixed it for you.
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Woke up explicably angry that everything, games companies, the tech sector, the government, is run by people you wouldn't trust to follow a cheese on toast recipe.
Cretins and grifters all.
Cretins and grifters all.
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Woke up explicably angry that everything, games companies, the tech sector, the government, is run by people you wouldn't trust to follow a cheese on toast recipe.
Cretins and grifters all.
Cretins and grifters all.
Second full run of Half Life: Alyx done and I still maintain it's one of the best games ever made, and certainly the best Half Life.
HLX can't come soon enough...
HLX can't come soon enough...
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Second full run of Half Life: Alyx done and I still maintain it's one of the best games ever made, and certainly the best Half Life.
HLX can't come soon enough...
HLX can't come soon enough...
Destiny 2: Renegades continues to be one of the most bizarre mashups I think I've ever seen from a big franchise. The new trailer has a guy doing a full-on Kylo Ren impression while leading an army of Cabal Stormtroopers from a Death Star.
Super interested to see how it hits.
Super interested to see how it hits.
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Destiny 2: Renegades continues to be one of the most bizarre mashups I think I've ever seen from a big franchise. The new trailer has a guy doing a full-on Kylo Ren impression while leading an army of Cabal Stormtroopers from a Death Star.
Super interested to see how it hits.
Super interested to see how it hits.
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Last night's interview with Novara on the Rockstar firings is now up as its own standalone video, if you'd like to watch.
Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuP...
Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuP...
Rockstar Games’ MASS Firing Of Unionised Workers
YouTube video by Novara Media
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Last night's interview with Novara on the Rockstar firings is now up as its own standalone video, if you'd like to watch.
Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuP...
Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuP...
Woke up explicably angry that everything, games companies, the tech sector, the government, is run by people you wouldn't trust to follow a cheese on toast recipe.
Cretins and grifters all.
Cretins and grifters all.
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Woke up explicably angry that everything, games companies, the tech sector, the government, is run by people you wouldn't trust to follow a cheese on toast recipe.
Cretins and grifters all.
Cretins and grifters all.
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Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
Unsettling Horror Game Horses Banned From Steam, Leaving Studio With 'High Risk' of Closure - IGN
Indie horror game Horses is preparing to launch on December 2, on the Epic Games Store, GOG, Itch.io, and the Humble Store. But one place it won't be is on Steam, because Steam has banned the game for...
www.ign.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
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October 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Fabulous interview by @lewispackwood.bsky.social about my BAFTA Breakthrough place, and what it means for me as a professional!
www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
BAFTA Breakthrough profile: Sally Beaumont
"I have all this weird, disparate experience: like I did commedia dell'arte"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Fabulous interview by @lewispackwood.bsky.social about my BAFTA Breakthrough place, and what it means for me as a professional!
www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
oh so today is going to *worsen* my self worth? Sorry sorry I missed that I'll add it to the agenda.
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
oh so today is going to *worsen* my self worth? Sorry sorry I missed that I'll add it to the agenda.
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this is such a depressing read. studios are happy to exploit the labour and creativity of women & queer people & poc but then turn around and sacrifice them to a baying mob of bad actors who they believe are their core audience. did we learn no lessons from gamergate?
For @aftermath.site, I spoke to @imodrew.bsky.social, the Sucker Punch dev fired after making a Charlie Kirk joke.
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
Two Months After Firing Over Charlie Kirk Comments, Ghost Of Yotei Dev Blames Harassment Campaign, Not ‘Bad Joke’
"I really don’t want this to happen to anyone else, because I feel like with the state of everything, it will absolutely happen to other people," says Drew Harrison
aftermath.site
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
this is such a depressing read. studios are happy to exploit the labour and creativity of women & queer people & poc but then turn around and sacrifice them to a baying mob of bad actors who they believe are their core audience. did we learn no lessons from gamergate?
Amazing
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Amazing