Aron Durkin
@arondurkin.bsky.social
Co-Founder Super Spline Studios https://bsky.app/profile/supersplinestudios.com UK - The People First 4 Day Week Game Animation Specialists! - 18 years a 3D Animator / Tech Animator | BAFTA Member https://supersplinestudios.com/
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BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned.
A shocking end for a well-respected studio.
A shocking end for a well-respected studio.
February 19, 2026 at 6:45 PM
BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned.
A shocking end for a well-respected studio.
A shocking end for a well-respected studio.
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And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.
In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
February 19, 2026 at 1:18 AM
And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.
In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
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genAI is dying repost to make it die faster
February 18, 2026 at 10:10 AM
genAI is dying repost to make it die faster
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Say hi to Director @arondurkin.bsky.social and Lead Animator Alan Barber on Friday at Guildford Games Festival and let's talk about your game animation needs!
February 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Say hi to Director @arondurkin.bsky.social and Lead Animator Alan Barber on Friday at Guildford Games Festival and let's talk about your game animation needs!
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AI is revolutionizing the world! A Playstation now costs $5,000 and this is the last phone you will ever own.
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 17, 2026 at 10:02 PM
AI is revolutionizing the world! A Playstation now costs $5,000 and this is the last phone you will ever own.
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i think lots of people underestimate how badly these “AI” companies want people to be unable to afford computers. they view personal computing as a roadblock to their desire for complete end-to-end centralization. the fact that their tech is putting hardware out of reach is not just a happy accident
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 5:49 PM
i think lots of people underestimate how badly these “AI” companies want people to be unable to afford computers. they view personal computing as a roadblock to their desire for complete end-to-end centralization. the fact that their tech is putting hardware out of reach is not just a happy accident
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Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine
February 16, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine
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This isn't quite the employment law update most of us wanted, but some of the things in here are huge.
* E-balloting for strikes instead of physical mailed ballots
* Simplified industrial action rules
* Lowered required threshold for recognition
www.gamesindustry.biz/how-the-empl...
* E-balloting for strikes instead of physical mailed ballots
* Simplified industrial action rules
* Lowered required threshold for recognition
www.gamesindustry.biz/how-the-empl...
How the Employment Rights Act 2025 empowers unions and employees, and how the games business must prepare
Over the next few months, the UK will see sweeping changes to laws governing unionisation and industrial action
www.gamesindustry.biz
February 13, 2026 at 10:13 AM
This isn't quite the employment law update most of us wanted, but some of the things in here are huge.
* E-balloting for strikes instead of physical mailed ballots
* Simplified industrial action rules
* Lowered required threshold for recognition
www.gamesindustry.biz/how-the-empl...
* E-balloting for strikes instead of physical mailed ballots
* Simplified industrial action rules
* Lowered required threshold for recognition
www.gamesindustry.biz/how-the-empl...
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AI is so inherently popular that companies are paying influencers up to $600,000 to tell people how awesome it is:
aftermath.site/ai-influencer-...
aftermath.site/ai-influencer-...
February 13, 2026 at 12:04 AM
AI is so inherently popular that companies are paying influencers up to $600,000 to tell people how awesome it is:
aftermath.site/ai-influencer-...
aftermath.site/ai-influencer-...
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Kena Scars of Kosmora from Ember Lab coming 2026
February 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Kena Scars of Kosmora from Ember Lab coming 2026
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Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
Ubisoft workers are on strike: 'We are treated like children'
The strike comes after the publisher revealed plans to cut up to 200 jobs and ordered remote workers back into the office
www.polygon.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
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I've been part of a skeleton crew as they call it, and let me tell you, it is hell. Nobody to offer guidance, tasks dumped on you, and the realization that nobody in leadership truly knows what you used to do in the first place, and thus you start questioning your own abilities and legitimacy.
Wildlight Entertainment lays off ‘number’ of staff; ‘core group’ to continue supporting Highguard
Wildlight Entertainment has laid off "a number" of staff while retaining a "core group" to continue supporting its recently launched free-to-play first-person shooter Highguard, the studio announced.…
Wildlight Entertainment has laid off "a number" of staff while retaining a "core group" to continue supporting its recently launched free-to-play first-person shooter Highguard, the studio announced.…
Wildlight Entertainment lays off ‘number’ of staff; ‘core group’ to continue supporting Highguard
Wildlight Entertainment has laid off "a number" of staff while retaining a "core group" to continue supporting its recently launched free-to-play first-person shooter Highguard, the studio announced. "Today we made an incredibly difficult decision to part ways with a number of our team members while keeping a core group of developers to continue innovating on and supporting [
www.gematsu.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:43 AM
I've been part of a skeleton crew as they call it, and let me tell you, it is hell. Nobody to offer guidance, tasks dumped on you, and the realization that nobody in leadership truly knows what you used to do in the first place, and thus you start questioning your own abilities and legitimacy.
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how bad do you have to fuck up to allow an exploit in fucking NOTEPAD
The AI features added to Notepad created a critical exploit vulnerable to loading a compromised txt file.
The fix is part of Patch Tuesday, so update your systems.
AI is not a feature I ever desired in Notepad. I should look into some alternatives...
The fix is part of Patch Tuesday, so update your systems.
AI is not a feature I ever desired in Notepad. I should look into some alternatives...
AI-upgraded Notepad now exposes Windows users to critical exploit
A critical remote code execution vulnerability found in the AI-upgraded Windows 11 Notepad has fueled renewed criticism of Microsoft's forced AI feature creep.
cybernews.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:37 PM
how bad do you have to fuck up to allow an exploit in fucking NOTEPAD
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I don't think most people understand just how much mistreatment of workers there is in the games industry and just how bad it is sometimes.
I do love being in a union and feeling like I'm helping ppl but omg do games studios like making life difficult for so many workers! Dealing with management nonsense, even in relatively decent companies, is freaking exhausting!
February 11, 2026 at 11:49 PM
I don't think most people understand just how much mistreatment of workers there is in the games industry and just how bad it is sometimes.
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I've reached out to Wildlight for more details, but if you work there (or did), my DMs are open and my email is in my bio if you'd like to talk (on or off record).
Highguard developer Wildlight Entertainment has reportedly laid off "most of the team." gameinformer.com/2026/02/11/h...
February 11, 2026 at 11:23 PM
I've reached out to Wildlight for more details, but if you work there (or did), my DMs are open and my email is in my bio if you'd like to talk (on or off record).
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It is insane how inevitable this felt - that the industry has forced itself into a corner ensuring that every FPS team has to work on a competitive service shooter that has a 99% chance of crashing on launch.
Wildlight (Highguard) lays off staff according to a LinkedIn post
"Unfortunately, along with most of the team at Wildlight, I was laid off today.
This one really stings as there was a lot of unreleased content I was really looking forward to that I and others designed for Highguard."
"Unfortunately, along with most of the team at Wildlight, I was laid off today.
This one really stings as there was a lot of unreleased content I was really looking forward to that I and others designed for Highguard."
February 11, 2026 at 11:20 PM
It is insane how inevitable this felt - that the industry has forced itself into a corner ensuring that every FPS team has to work on a competitive service shooter that has a 99% chance of crashing on launch.
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conflating labor markets and attention markets. literally no one is going to pay any money to watch AI tom cruise fight AI brad pitt
‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ writer Rhett Reese reacts to viral AI video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting:
“I hate to say it. It’s likely over for us.”
“I hate to say it. It’s likely over for us.”
February 11, 2026 at 10:51 PM
conflating labor markets and attention markets. literally no one is going to pay any money to watch AI tom cruise fight AI brad pitt
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This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 PM
This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing
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This video made me laugh so fucking hard (by @h_wallacepires on X, The Everything App)
February 11, 2026 at 4:33 PM
This video made me laugh so fucking hard (by @h_wallacepires on X, The Everything App)
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My pal and fellow Scottish developer Chris Brown recently put his solo-dev racing game AGX GP up on Steam and you should definitely give it a look if you like AAA Wipeout visuals with ridiculously-fast twitch arcade gameplay. store.steampowered.com/app/4250680/...
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
My pal and fellow Scottish developer Chris Brown recently put his solo-dev racing game AGX GP up on Steam and you should definitely give it a look if you like AAA Wipeout visuals with ridiculously-fast twitch arcade gameplay. store.steampowered.com/app/4250680/...
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We are rooting for Ubisoft's employees and fully support the strike coming next week.
As videogames workers, we need to stand united to demand and obtain better work conditions & more ethical practices overall. We can -and will- make our industry better! 💫
As videogames workers, we need to stand united to demand and obtain better work conditions & more ethical practices overall. We can -and will- make our industry better! 💫
🇬🇧✊🌀 Ubisoft : enough is enough! Faced with the arbitrary decision of the CEO who doesn’t even dare talking to employees anymore, unions are calling for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th.
February 5, 2026 at 10:20 AM
We are rooting for Ubisoft's employees and fully support the strike coming next week.
As videogames workers, we need to stand united to demand and obtain better work conditions & more ethical practices overall. We can -and will- make our industry better! 💫
As videogames workers, we need to stand united to demand and obtain better work conditions & more ethical practices overall. We can -and will- make our industry better! 💫
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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We've done a new game! If you like one or more of:
* Tower defence
* Scottish Space Dwarves
* Retro vibes
You should check this out right now!
* Tower defence
* Scottish Space Dwarves
* Retro vibes
You should check this out right now!
We're reuniting with @ant-workshop.com to bring you Into the Slimy Mines, a tower defense roguelike with a card twist!
You can expect...
⚒️Intergalactic Mining Dwarves
🦠Hundreds and thousands of Slimes
⚒️Did we mention the Intergalactic Mining DWARVES?
youtu.be/9MPBCESan6Q
You can expect...
⚒️Intergalactic Mining Dwarves
🦠Hundreds and thousands of Slimes
⚒️Did we mention the Intergalactic Mining DWARVES?
youtu.be/9MPBCESan6Q
Into the Slimy Mines - Official Reveal Trailer
YouTube video by Wales Interactive
youtu.be
February 5, 2026 at 2:02 PM
We've done a new game! If you like one or more of:
* Tower defence
* Scottish Space Dwarves
* Retro vibes
You should check this out right now!
* Tower defence
* Scottish Space Dwarves
* Retro vibes
You should check this out right now!
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Friendly reminder:
NO ONE needs AI slop and more AI data centres
EVERYBODY needs clean water, affordable energy, and a habitable planet
NO ONE needs AI slop and more AI data centres
EVERYBODY needs clean water, affordable energy, and a habitable planet
February 8, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Friendly reminder:
NO ONE needs AI slop and more AI data centres
EVERYBODY needs clean water, affordable energy, and a habitable planet
NO ONE needs AI slop and more AI data centres
EVERYBODY needs clean water, affordable energy, and a habitable planet