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David Elahee.
🎮 Dev - Designer - Prod@heabang.club
🎮 Game Programming teacher & coordinator @ENJMIN

🤘 ex-President & cofounder @SO· Games
🔨 Working on DeathTower
🎯 Specializing in being a generalist
🌐 https://headbang.club
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headbang.club
🔥 This year, we're celebrating the 10th anniversary of Headbang Club! 🔥
From Double Kick Heroes to DeathTower, we will keep on crafting games we love, loud and pixelated!
Thank you for your support! 🤘
Cheers mate!
January 7, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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nico-n-art.bsky.social
Plan for 2026:
- finding a new pixel art job (hello, please hire me)
- putting stuff on my koffee page (asset packs, wallpapers, etc.)
- streaming
- finding schools to teach pixel art again
- more festivals and events
- hopefully more personal projects and art
- having an online shop again
January 5, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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pixeldailies.bsky.social
Hi everyone, Reports that the Pixel Dailies server has been hacked are correct. If you're still a part of the Discord server, please report the moderator account "Jamie" block them and leave the server.
January 7, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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legorafi.bsky.social
Nicolas Sarkozy reçoit le “prix de littérature” de la FIFA #AnnéeGorafi https://www.legorafi.fr/2025/12/12/nicolas-sarkozy-recoit-le-prix-de-litterature-de-la-fifa/
Nicolas Sarkozy reçoit le “prix de littérature” de la FIFA
La Fédération Internationale de Football a remis à l’ex-président ce tout nouveau prix littéraire pour son livre “Le Journal d’un Prisonnier”.
www.legorafi.fr
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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gautoz.cool
📢 Je suis avec @yamukass.bsky.social à l’E-Lab de la Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie demain après-midi pour faire le bilan de l’année 2025 !

Vous pouvez passer faire coucou 👋

https://www.cite-sciences.fr/fr/au-programme/expos-permanentes/les-expositions/e-lab/focus-jeux-video/saison-4
Photo de l’espace jeu vidéo E-Lab de la Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie. Plusieurs stations assises devant un grand écran projetant une infographie liée à l’industrie du jeu vidéo.
December 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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skizomeuh.bsky.social
Shotgun King dispo sur Android et gratos via Epic !!!
Merci @punkcake.club !!!!!!!!
Je l'avais déjà sur PC, mais dans la popoche c'est encore mieux
December 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
blackmagic.bsky.social
We are on mobile folks! Ready your best shotgun!
cheapassgamer.com Cheap Ass Gamer @cheapassgamer.com · 26d
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate (Mobile) is Free via The Epic Games Store.

IOS (EU Only) https://ow.ly/xWBC50XLxv0
Android https://ow.ly/LgWu50XLxv4
December 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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flying-oak.com
Next year we'll announce our new game 4 years in the making!

While you're waiting, here's a first little preview of what's to come 🤜💥

Get ready for a story-driven action-adventure game in an open-environment, with non-stop drama and goofiness. 🎢

See you in 2026 with @arteinteractive.bsky.social !
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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padrepio.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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jacobgeller.com
Reading @metallicaisrad.bsky.social's new book about Guitar Hero and Rock Band and apparently the games "doubled the world's need for drumsticks"
December 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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itsjessegomez.bsky.social
🚨 Digital Foundry is hiring a Junior Producer!

Rich and the team are fantastic, and jobs like these don't often pop up. If you know how to use Photoshop, edit on Premiere Pro, and are based in the UK/Europe, and love gaming and tech, this might be for you:

www.patreon.com/posts/145970...
Digital Foundry Is Looking For A Junior Producer | Digital Foundry
Get more from Digital Foundry on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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merriam-webster.com
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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blackmagic.bsky.social
Si y a des mutus dans les média qui veulent des infos du "grand off" qui remplacera le festival, n hésitez pas à me faire signe avec votre email, je ferais redescendre vos contacts dans les listes des orgas, Cheers!
December 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
blackmagic.bsky.social
Si y a des mutus dans les média qui veulent des infos du "grand off" qui remplacera le festival, n hésitez pas à me faire signe avec votre email, je ferais redescendre vos contacts dans les listes des orgas, Cheers!
December 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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fcactu.bsky.social
À Angoulême, sans son festival international de la BD, le "Off" s'organise.
Reportage
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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December 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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jasonschreier.bsky.social
One easy fix would be to eliminate categories based on genre or whatever “indie” means and instead get granular about craft (best level design, best world, best combat, etc) which would probably pose other problems but at least make for more interesting conversations and honor specific people
December 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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sean.zimmerit.moe
Hideaki Anno just announced via the khara website that Gainax is officially dead and gone as a corporate entity as of December 10th: www.khara.co.jp/2025/12/11/2...
「株式会社ガイナックス」について
2025年12月10日の官報掲載にありますように、アニメーション制作スタジオだった「株式会社ガイナックス」の破産整理が終わり、法人として消滅し、その42年弱の歴史を終えました。　創設期から20年以上籍を置き、今日まで株主として関わっていたものとして誠に残念な最後ですが、静かに受け止めています。 　まず、2019年、当時の代表取締役社長巻智博氏の逮捕を受け、弊社と共にガイナックス社の再建、後に整...
www.khara.co.jp
December 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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kenney.nl
"Oh sure, let me instantly generate every storefront image at once" is something no game developer ever said... until I added this feature to Kenney Game Assets All-in-1! 🎉

(Coming later this month!)
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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junpolitessier.bsky.social
Hello gamedev folks 💔
It's my final straw. If I don't find work in 1 month, I'll have to quit gamedev definitely, and make a big career change for something more stable.

👉 I'm a UI/UX Designer, worked on Rematch, Sifu, Time Rift, and more. I'm looking for a job! My work here: politessier.webflow.io
Jun Poli Tessier - Portfolio
Game UI/UX Designer
politessier.webflow.io
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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wednesdays-game.bsky.social
Wednesdays is ✨ free ✨ for World Children's Day in order to raise awareness about child sexual abuse.

Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/...
or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays
before November 21th 9PM CET!
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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cassim.montilla.fr
Combattre le KKK est jugé trop risqué politiquement par Ubisoft
October 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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wario64.bsky.social
Heart Machine making layoffs and ending development on Hyper Light Breaker www.gamedeveloper.com/business/hea...
October 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
blackmagic.bsky.social
TT trop marre...
killylog1.bsky.social Pierre Maugein @killylog1.bsky.social · Oct 6
Victime collatérale des licenciements récents de Funcom, le studio The Outsiders (Metal Hellsinger) va malheureusement fermer ses portes après 10 ans d'existence. Toute la force possible aux employé.es pour la suite.
October 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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moomanibe.bsky.social
I don't give a shit so I _will_ name and shame here
Director, Gen AI for Games Director, Gen AI for Games with verification Netflix · Los Angeles, CA (On-site) Key Responsibilities Define and lead the Gen AI strategy across Netflix Games, helping to shape foundational infrastructure to player-facing features. Identify and evaluate opportunities to apply Gen AI across our portfolio and studios both in the creation of new experiences and improving our workflows and pipelines. Engage with game teams to develop prototype features and AI-native gameplay mechanics, ensuring technical viability and product-market fit. Partner with external researchers, developers, and companies pioneering work within the Gen AI Stay on the forefront of AI research and emerging tools, separating hype from high-leverage opportunities that align with our development and player goals. Collaborate with our engineering and platform teams to build robust solutions and scale core capabilities (e.g., model inference, fine-tuning pipelines, data infrastructure, etc). Build relationships with external developers, startups, and research groups at the forefront of Gen AI, identifying where their innovations can meaningfully accelerate or complement our internal efforts. Chart clear, strategic paths for partnership, integration, or co-development. Influence broader company thinking around Gen AI, creative collaboration, and impact in games.
October 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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stephentotilo.bsky.social
A rundown of Saudi government-funded investment in the video game industry since 2022

I figured it'd be impactful to see all of this in one list

From yesterday's Game File: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-saudi-a...
The PIF already owned nearly 10% of EA, which will be rolled over into the new ownership structure. The Saudi government’s investment in gaming largely via the PIF, has been in overdrive for the past four years. In January 2022, the PIF announced the $1.5 billion purchase of esports organizations ESL and FaceIt as well as the creation of the Savvy Games Group, a would-be gaming conglomerate. Savvy’s chairman is Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS). In May 2022, MBS’ Misk Foundation upped its ownership of long-running Japanese game maker SNK to 96%. In September 2022, Savvy said it would invest $38 billion into gaming. Among its goals: $13 billion earmarked “for the acquisition and development of a leading game publisher to become a strategic development partner.” In July 2023, Savvy completed a $4.9 billion purchase of Scopely, the mobile gaming company behind the hugely successful Monopoly Go. In the spend-money-to-make-money world of mobile gaming, Scopely has found itself with hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on the game’s marketing, to rake in billions in revenue. In summer 2024, the Saudi government-funded eSports World Cup kicked off, offering a “life-changing” $60 million prize pool, which was an esports record (The EWC topped themselves the year). The Cup lists Sony as a strategic partner and has featured games from Capcom, Riot, Epic, Activision Blizzard, and more. In September 2024, Savvy CEO Brian Ward was elected as one of the board of directors for The Embracer Group, the Swedish gaming conglomerate that owns the rights to Lord of the Rings and Tomb Raider franchises. Savvy is the second-largest shareholder of Embracer. In May 2025, Savvy-owned Scopely completed its $3.5 billion purchase of most of the game portion of Niantic, including its popular mobile game Pokémon Go Also in 2025, SNK’s newest fighting game, Fatal Fury: City of Wolves, had “one of the most aggressive [marketing campaigns] we’ve seen for a fighting game,” per Fighters Generation. City of Wolves’ promotional campaign included an unusually large $2.5 million tournament prize pool, the branding of one of the year’s biggest—and Saudi-backed—boxing matches as “Fatal Fury,” and multiple and a musical number in the middle of Wrestlemania 41, the biggest event of the year from Saudi government financial partner WWE. (Despite all that hype, poor sales led to the resignation of SNK’s CEO.) In summer 2025, the eSports World Cup featured a spin-off New Global Sport Conference, which included a talk with Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. During that talk, Guillemot confirmed a free-to-consumers mini-expansion to 2023’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage. The add-on will be set in 9th century AlUla, which is located in what is now Saudi Arabia. (Ubisoft has declined to confirm that the Saudis are financing the 2025 expansion, but Game File sources familiar with the project are under the impression it is. A Ubisoft rep told me earlier this month that the game update “was made possible thanks to the support of local and international organizations…”) Over the past several years, the Public Investment Fund has purchased large stakes of publicly traded gaming companies, holding 6.5% of EA rival and Grand Theft Auto maker Take Two, 6.6% of Capcom and 4.2% of Nintendo, among others
September 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM