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Enrique González Rodríguez
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Senior AI Programmer at Flying Wild Hog. Former Saber Interactive Spain. Worked on #EvilDeadTheGame, #WildCardFootball, #RadikalFighters and #TurokOrigins

Engineer, Gamer and Powerlifter 💻🎮🏋🏼‍♂️
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tommy.aiandgames.com
Last week the venerable @georgeosborn.bsky.social reached out with a question submitted to this @vgim.bsky.social newsletter regarding the ethical issues surrounding the use of AI in Arc Raiders.

What started as a short one paragraph response became a 4000+ word newsletter issue.
aiandgames.com AI and Games @aiandgames.com · 1d
The release of Arc Raiders has raised significant concerns about the ethics of utilising generative AI in a AAA game. It’s important we understand that for whatever gains AI delivers, who is losing out, and what impact does that have on the industry?

Read on!
www.aiandgames.com/p/arc-raider...
Arc Raiders and the Ethical Use of Generative AI | 19/11/25
We discuss the issues surrounding Embark's use of AI voices
www.aiandgames.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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leftistgamermemes.bsky.social
⏳️💰🪼
October 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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rephildesign.bsky.social
Battlefield Memories

#pixelart #mario64
A pixel art scene of several characters from Mario 64, with a CRT filter effect applied.
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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rockpapershotgun.bsky.social
CEO of GTA 6 publisher Take-Two is surprisingly hesitant about AI usage for entirely unsurprising reasons
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has shared his, potentially surprising, perspective of AI usage in the games industry.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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emilyonhere.gay
“what radicalized you” idk paying attention
October 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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theeldermemes.bsky.social
"why are games so expensive"
"why are mass layoffs happening"
"why are games getting cancelled"
"why did that popular studio close"

it's capitalism. capitalism is why all of this is happening. the rampant prioritizing of profit over the all else, from price and quality to dev health and well being.
jasonschreier.bsky.social Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 28d
SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average.

This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything.

Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins
Management’s goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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tommy.aiandgames.com
The bus becomes a train and shits out a ladder. This is art
kthorjensen.bsky.social K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 27d
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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eldiario.es
El abogado que quiere prohibir que se compren pisos para hacer negocio: “La Constitución prohíbe especular con la vivienda, los gobiernos están obligados a actuar” www.eldiario.es/catalunya/ab...
October 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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eldiario.es
🔴 Rufián: "La política de vivienda de cualquier país decente debería ser 'una familia, una casa' y quien quiera más casas para especular, que pague impuestos"
www.eldiario.es/politica/ult...
October 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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lukeplunkett.com
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…
September 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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voicesbyzane.bsky.social
Been thinking about this moment from a Bug's Life lately.
February 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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lucavi.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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rj-palmer.com
Bro, Rathalos what are you even doing here??
pixel art illustration of the Rathalos the rapscallion he knows he isn't supposed to be in pokemon world
August 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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jasonschreier.bsky.social
BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really.

Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are.

This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make
The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme
www.bloomberg.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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rustylake.com
✨️ Servant of the Lake Official Reveal ✨️

Board the carriage to get swept back into the world of Rusty Lake 🚣

Solve puzzles, serve the Vanderboom family and uncover their dark alchemical secrets in Servant of the Lake - a new upcoming single-player point-and-click adventure in the Rusty Lake series.
August 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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capitanswing.bsky.social
París ha naturalizado la plaza del ayuntamiento y la ha convertido en un bosque urbano.

¿Cómo? Con voluntad política y elevando el suelo para dar espacio a las raíces de los árboles.
August 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
patirrio.bsky.social
Me salen casas para comprar en las zonas que llevo 1 año mirando por Madrid que ahora que valen +50k euros mínimo de lo que valían el año pasado, esto no tiene ni sentido ya, es desesperante, la capacidad de ahorro es mas lenta que la velocidad a la que suben los precios
August 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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kayandskittles.bsky.social
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
tuthanhha.bsky.social Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · Jul 26
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
July 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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tylerglaiel.com
if you wanna make video games as a career you have to enjoy the process of making video games. its not enough to just enjoy the end result. same goes for most types of creative works
July 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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reacherwindandmoon.bsky.social
贴纸
July 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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eigenbom.bsky.social
I think we should use Fibonacci years to track our age. E.g. F7 is the era from age 21-34. Because time feels faster as you age the gap between each F feels the same. Assign bucket list items to each F, etc.

1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89
July 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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fran.pw
Otro éxito de la meritocracia
videogameschronicle.com VGC @videogameschronicle.com · Jul 16
Ubisoft has named CEO Yves Guillemot’s son as the co-CEO of its new Tencent-backed subsidiary.

Asked to address concerns of nepotism, Charlie Guillemot said: “What matters now isn’t my name, it’s the work ahead."

vgc.news/news/ubisoft...
Ubisoft names Yves Guillemot’s son as co-CEO of new Tencent-backed subsidiary | VGC
“What matters now isn’t my name, it’s the work ahead…
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July 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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eldiario.es
Los datos que desmienten a Vox: España tiene el doble de extranjeros que en 2005 y una tasa de delincuencia más baja
Los datos que desmienten a Vox: España tiene el doble de extranjeros que en 2005 y una tasa de delincuencia más baja
La 'problematización' de la migración choca con los datos: las personas de nacionalidad extranjera eran 3,7 millones en 2005 y hoy son 7 millones, según el INE. A su vez, la tasa de criminalidad es 9 ...
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July 16, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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romerogames.bsky.social
Update (July 7, 2025)
We want to address recent reports regarding the status of Romero Games. These reports have contained inaccuracies, and we feel it's important to set the record straight. • The funding for our project was pulled, and our game was canceled. • Due to confidentiality agreements, we cannot disclose the publisher's identity, though some may infer it from public information. • As a result, we now have to reassess the entire staffing of our studio. • Romero Games is not closed, and we are doing everything in our power to ensure that it does not come to that. Any suggestion otherwise is factually incorrect. Indeed, we were in the studio today to discuss next steps with the team. • We've been contacted by several publishers interested in helping us bring the game across the finish line, and we're currently evaluating those opportunities. We appreciate the outpouring of support and will share further updates as we are able. Romero Games
July 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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tomcaswell.games
Important to note; Japan has way stricter laws around laying people off. Actual protections from its government that force companies to do things like have execs take pay cuts before doing a mass layoff. The solution to this problem is not a “good” CEO. It’s systemic and complete reform.
alexaray.bsky.social Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · Jul 2
I remember a time Nintendo leader Satoru Iwata took a paycut himself to prevent laying off developers. They really don't make the like they used to.
July 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM