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Mike Borras 🔜 DICE 🔜 GDC
@skylabops.bsky.social
LAX ✈️ CLT ✈️ VIE 🕹️ Games industry executive, Studio Head, and 6x Founder. Formerly part of Rockstar Games, Embracer Group, Coffee Stain Publishing, and Nexon Korea.

Obscure former indie music producer: https://archive.org/details/observatory_online
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If you're interested in the business, management, and publishing side of video games, here's a starter pack with loads of people active in video game business development, publishing, and more: go.bsky.app/CaRUBsv
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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

➡️ ca.investing.com/news/stock-m...

#GoogleGemini #TakeTwo #CDProjektRED #Roblox #videogames
January 30, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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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
January 30, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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I'm sorry but techbros don't get to coopt a perfectly good musical genre name. www.ft.com/content/d0b7...
Grindcore is the new hustle culture
In Silicon Valley, long hours have fused with a monastic male wellness aesthetic
www.ft.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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 🍕🍹🎰
January 27, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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"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.
January 25, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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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).
January 17, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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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! 🧡

📧 [email protected]
🎨 www.artstation.com/niku30
👤 www.linkedin.com/in/nina-kunz...

#artjob #opentowork
January 12, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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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/...
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.
hiddenfolks.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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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.
January 8, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car
January 8, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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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...
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.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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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
December 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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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.
It’s funny how Elon Musk has no problem with Chinese regulation, which is much stricter than European regulation.

Have you ever seen him call for the abolition of the CCP?
December 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Uber Eats is somehow always like “delivery in 17 minutes”, then once you order, it creeps up to 60+ minutes. Every. Time.
December 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Apparently you can hedge your bets (travel) against rainy weather in LA now
December 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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?
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
💯 Western companies all racing to become the McDonald's of games need to take notes:

finance.yahoo.com/news/nintend...
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.
finance.yahoo.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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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.
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.
boltsmag.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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 🥂
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
No but seriously, how do we get @aoc.bsky.social, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, and @kumail.bsky.social in on a game of @rvthereyetgame.com?
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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🎉 2 million sales in 8 days 🤯

You guys are crazy, thank you so much for the support!!
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is all sorts of incredible, super happy for all at Team Nuggets 🎉
New video on the youtube channel!

Covering updated sales numbers as well as addressing some questions the community has had. Will definitely be making more vids in the future too to keep you all in the loop!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Ca...
How many copies of RV There Yet? we have sold & other info!
YouTube video by Nuggets Ent. // Among the Wild & RV There Yet?
www.youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM