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Naveed @naveedmohebbi.bsky.social · 3d

I put out another video on my collection channel this time about the Nintendo Company brochure from 2018 which Nintendo gave out to potential employees in Japan. There's some really cool concept art and things if you wanna check it out!

youtu.be/NEdE2Zndab8?...

The Nintendo Company Brochure 2018

YouTube video by Naveed Collects

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Todd Cameron @ EVO @toddlyenough.bsky.social · 4d

I relate to this

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Jaded Forum @jadedforum.bsky.social · Sep 11

N.I.G.G.A. Infinity ™

#JadedForum

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Todd Cameron @ EVO @toddlyenough.bsky.social · 6d

If you missed it, I edited the Washington Rivals of Aether II PR video! SO MUCH FUN!! In my whole career I've never actually done a video like this, hella fun~

CHECK OUT OUR SICK PLAYERS!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmcT...

Washington Rivals of Aether II Power Rankings - 2025 Season 2

YouTube video by Seatac Rivals

www.youtube.com

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 7d

This is why giving the grifters an inch is bad, because you will end up giving a foot.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 7d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 7d

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 7d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 11d

is this good

LLMs, he argues, already are at the scaling limits. “We don’t know exactly when LLMs might hit diminishing returns hard, because we don’t have a measure of the statistical complexity of language. To find out whether we have hit a wall we have to watch the LLM developers. If they release a model that cost 10x more, likely using 20x more compute than the previous one, and it’s not much better than what’s out there, then we’ve hit a wall,” he says.

And that’s what has happened: ChatGPT-3 cost $50 million, ChatGPT-4 cost $500 million and ChatGPT-5, costing $5 billion, was delayed and when released wasn’t noticeably better than the last version. It’s also easy for competitors to catch up.

“So, in summary; you can’t create an app with commercial value as it is either generic (games etc), which won’t sell, or it is regurgitated public domain (homework), or it is subject to copyright. It’s hard to advertise effectively, LLMs cost an exponentially larger amount to train each generation, with a rapidly diminishing gain in accuracy. There’s no moat on a model, so there’s little pricing power. And the people who use LLMs the most are using them to access compute that costs the developer more to provide than their monthly subscriptions,” he says.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 22d

Been trying to explain why economy increasingly feels like it's running wholly on rich people passing each other same bag of money - innovation is stalled, unemployment is rising, but stock tickers are still somehow going up. This example captures the current state of our economy perfectly.

Tweet:

So let me get this right. Oracle says openai committed 300b for cloud storage. Oracle stock jumps 36% Oracle runs on Nvidia gpus. Has to buy billions in chips from Nvidia. Nvidia just announced they're investing 100b in openai. Openai using that money... To pay oracle. Who pays Nvidia. Who investa in open ai

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Todd Cameron @ EVO @toddlyenough.bsky.social · 18d

@caitysecret.bsky.social has drawn just one of the Colorfunk characters and I already wonder what he's doing all the time

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 27d

NEW MUSIC AND GAME! I was able to work with Hasbro and Alliance Games bringing Bop-It! back to life as an audiovisual rhythm game-like experience with five original songs and remastered audio by me! Game art by @brysonmcbee.bsky.social and album art by @saredd99.bsky.social <3
bopitthevideogame.com

dazzling, colorful bop-it album cover with headphones, 90s stylistic objects and the device

a stage from bop-it game with the device in center being played

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 25d

probably the realest thing ive ever seen posted on that website

Happy Friday everybody! I don't know why, but I feel like spilling the tea this morning, so here are some hard truths about the game industry.

A lot of people who got into the industry early were terrible game developers. This shouldn't surprise people, but we used to look at numbers in the early 00's like half of all people rolling out of the game industry in the first three years as though all of those people were qualified.

Hiring in this industry has almost always been untrained amateurs looking for people they like and who remind them of people they know. Most interviewers decide in the first five minutes whether they think you're worth hiring. Even the people who get training in how to interview almost never get coaching on how they do it, or real feedback on the success of their techniques.

As a result, a lot of people walked in the door unqualified to do the job they were hired to do. Some of them survived for multiple cycles. Some of those were even promoted to leadership positions. There was a lot of nepotism involved - if you were friends with / had worked with the head of studio, department director, etc., then you were a known quantity and better than having to go out and find someone.

Combine this with the prestige halo that comes from branding, and you have real problems. People tend to ascribe god-like powers to successful game studios - EA back in its heyday, Blizzard, BioWare. People who worked on hit games at big / known studios carried a ton of prestige - regardless of what they actually did.

It's easy to say "I worked at Blizzard", and what that meant was not that you were part and parcel of the magic that made those games awesome, but simply that you were employed there; it takes hundreds, if not thousands, of people to make AAA games, and I promise you that inside every large, successful studio, there is a cadre of fuck-ups that no one has the heart, willpower, or political pull to get rid of.

I've fired people with over a decade of expe…

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · Sep 15

ALL of my games are in the Fellow Traveller sale!

🚀 Build a crew in Citizen Sleeper 2 (25% Off)
💫 Find a home in Citizen Sleeper (70% Off)
🐠 Study an Alien Ocean in In Other Waters (75% Off)

+ grab another one of my publishers excellent narrative games: store.steampowered.com/sale/fellowt...

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector 25% Off

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Harpsona (Nile/ないる) @harpsona.com · Sep 5

Happy #Silksong release day! 🪡

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Todd Cameron @ EVO @toddlyenough.bsky.social · Sep 5

Get him some acetaminophen!!

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Todd Cameron @ EVO @toddlyenough.bsky.social · Sep 3

I would just have the diet of a 90s Beat 'Em Up character and die about as quickly as they did too

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James Youngman @jyoungman.bsky.social · Sep 1

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.

There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 31

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks

www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers

Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.

www.axios.com

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Todd Cameron @ EVO @toddlyenough.bsky.social · Aug 28

This tweet brought to you by going back through @2mello.net 's discography because it's a Thursday and that's as good a day as any to do that~

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Todd Cameron @ EVO @toddlyenough.bsky.social · Aug 28

The way I feel any time there's a "C'mon!" sample in a song man. Shortcut to my heart...

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ck @ 30XX @batterystaplegames.bsky.social · Aug 26

🟥GAMES JOBS - RTs super appreciated because we don't really have a bsky presence yet!🟥

Batterystaple's working on an unannounced 2D multiplayer variety/chaos/yell-at-your-friends game, and we're looking to hire a few talented artists to bring the game's energy to life.

Info & app link below!

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IGN Union @ignunion.bsky.social · Aug 25

Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain.

Not this time. Not anymore.

FROM NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 13TH IGN CREATORS GUILD IS GOING TO... DO OUR JOB!

OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, IGN MANAGEMENT HAS GOTTEN AWAY WITH LAYING OFF OUR COWORKERS OVER AND OVER. MEANWHILE, MANY OF OUR COLLEAGUES HAVE LEFT THE COMPANY IN NO SMALL PART DUE TO BUYOUTS, OVERWORK, AND FEELING UNSUPPORTED, EACH TIME, THE COMPANY HAS REFUSED TO BACKFILL MANY ESSENTIAL ROLES, CLAIMING WE'RE ON A HIRING FREEZE, IT'S NOT IN THE BUDGET, OR THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO LESS WORK THIS TIME.

AS A RESULT, IGNCG MEMBERS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO TAKE ON MORE OF THEIR FORMER COLLEAGUES' WORKLOADS. MANY OF US NOW WORK LONGER HOURS THAN WE USED TO. A LOT OF US RARELY TAKE LUNCH BREAKS. SOME OF US DO NOT TAKE ADEQUATE TIME OFF DUE TO THERE BEING NO ONE TO PICK UP THE SLACK. OTHERS OF US ARE STUCK DOING WORK WE WERE NEVER HIRED TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE.
UP TO THIS POINT, WE'VE ALL ACCEPTED THIS AS NORMAL, BECAUSE WE CARE DEEPLY ABOUT IGN AND THE WORK WE DO. BUT WITH SO MANY OF US STRUGGLING MORE AND MORE AS EACH NEW WAVE OF OUR COWORKERS ARE DEPRIVED OF A LIVELIHOOD, THIS CYCLE CAN'T CONTINUE. MANAGEMENT IS UNWILLING TO STOP IT, SO IT FALLS TO US.
WITH THE LAYOFFS OF EIGHT OF OUR COWORKERS, IGNCG HAS NEGOTIATED A SIX-MONTH RECALL LIST. WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT, FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, IF IGN WANTS TO FILL ANY OF THOSE ELIMINATED ROLES AGAIN, THEY MUST REHIRE OUR LAID-OFF COLLEAGUES. WE WANT THEM TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET THEIR JOBS BACK IF THEY WANT THEM, AND IF NOT, WE WANT THOSE ROLES BACKFILLED TO EASE THE BURDEN ON THE REST OF US.
SO STARTING TODAY, LENCE MEMBERS ARE COMMITTING TO DO OUR JOBS. NO MORE, NO LESS. WELL SHOW UP TO WORK ON TIME AND LEAVE ON TIME. WE'RE TAKING ALL OF OUR LUNCH TIME, EVERY DAY.
IF WE WORK LATE, WE WILL FIRMLY ASK FOR OUR RIGHTFULLY EARNED COMP TIME. AND IF IGN WANTS OUR LAID-OFF COWORKERS' WORK TO GET DONE, THEY'LL HAVE TO REHIRE THEM TO DO IT INSTEAD OF FOISTING IT UPON US.
HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT IGNCG IN ALL THIS?
SHARE THIS POST, AND TELL IGN MANAGEMENT THAT Y…

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Todd Cameron @ EVO @toddlyenough.bsky.social · Aug 26

I also changed "under god" for that exact reason! I usually picked a fruit or something 'cause fruits have funny names.

I still remember a few months into first grade I was like "Are we allowed to not do this?" Teacher said yes, never did it again~

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Todd Cameron @ EVO @toddlyenough.bsky.social · Aug 25

And that's why I'm never watching stuff on YouTube anymore~

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · Aug 23

The idea that 'AI can speed up dev cycles' would require a premise that dev cycles are long because people are taking forever to make assets (so you could replace them with shoddy slop and it'd go faster), which you could only believe is true if you've never actually tried to make a video game

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · Aug 22

At Gamescom, one sentiment remained consistent: We need to make games quicker. And to do that, more and more studios are turning to AI.

www.gamesindustry.biz/at-gamescom-...

At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion

And at least part of that plan involves AI

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Todd Cameron @ EVO @toddlyenough.bsky.social · Aug 24

Shout out to all the clams in my life I've smashed with the rock of friendship

Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · Aug 23

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Todd Cameron @ EVO @toddlyenough.bsky.social · Aug 24

Peak Sunder quotient on this one

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