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Ry-angry Simpson retweeted
"When it rains, it pours."
Apart from BioWare (Mass Effect), Maxis (The Sims), Full Circle (Skate) and Respawn (Apex Legends), #Battlefield developers Ripple Effect and Motive Studio have also been targeted by EA during sweeping layoffs.
EA's internal memo - first made public by Bloomberg - failed to specify which other studios would be affected. Vertical Slice has since reported that Motive Studio and Ripple Effect are among EA's targets, citing multiple LinkedIn posts by laid-off staff.
This has been corroborated by posts from Character Artist (Corey Thomas), Technical Animator (Juan Meza), and Technical Artist (Turner Spring) from Ripple Effect and posts from Concept Artist (Brandon Le) and Senior Gameplay Designer (Jamieson Shearer) from Motive Studio.
Corey Thomas: linkedin.com/posts/corweee_o…
Juan Meza: linkedin.com/posts/jjmeza_i-…
Turner Spring: linkedin.com/posts/turner-sp…
Brandon Le: linkedin.com/posts/brandon-l…
Jamieson Shearer: linkedin.com/posts/jamiesons…
The new round of cuts includes the elimination of 400 roles across EA. 50 workers were affected at BioWare. The other 350 job cuts come from Maxis, Full Circle, Respawn, Ripple Effect and Motive Studio.
verticalslice.news/maxis-ful…
Ry-angry Simpson retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
Feeling a lot of pain and sadness for my bf6 colleagues overseas who've just been let go. Spent quite a few late nights working across time zones with some of them. 😔 I really hope everyone affected by these layoffs land on their feet – at Cannock, England
Finally, a real game you can play with your kids.
I spent years helping build World of Warcraft. Then I watched MMOs automate the people out.
So we're building Haven: a beautiful WoW meets Valheim, made for families, where cooperation is the win condition. 🧵
Ry-angry Simpson retweeted
BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Ry-angry Simpson retweeted
Something dead has awakened in Area 51 💀
Dead Space has breached #Battlefield6 and #REDSEC.
👁️ Destroy the Marker
🧟 Survive hordes of Marked Soldiers
🔫 Wield the Pulse Rifle
🪖 Unlock Dead Space rewards
Survive the madness. Stop the Convergence.
Battlefield 6 x Dead Space | Convergence Event Trailer
Something dead has awakened in Area 51.
Ry-angry Simpson retweeted
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly the reason why VGC is NOT a safe environment for women yet. Was unsure to publish this and will not translate as this disgusts me just too much
I go to the office maybe once a quarter for social events, team building or important meetings. Every time, I come back I'm struck down with some absolutely horrific illness. Jfc. Not slept right for 3 days so far, coughing and aching. FML – at Cannock, England
Ry-angry Simpson retweeted
Here's a quick look at some of the editing features in Pixel Art Lighter.
The tool will be fully free and open source!
Man, I miss the golden days of GameCity in Nottingham. Absolutely fantastic vibes that was. – at Cannock, England
Ry-angry Simpson retweeted
We at @Ahwoo_Official and @rocketwerkz have made the BRUTAL Framework, that Ludeon have used to make their engine, and us Kitten Space Agency, open source and free to use. Our industry is rotting from the core out. We plan to change it. reddit.com/r/gamedev/comment…
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The math behind shaders ✨
More about Godot shaders and VFX ➡️ jettelly.com/bundles/godot-a…
Ry-angry Simpson retweeted
Been working on a custom tool for pixel art normal map and luminance mask generation/editing.
Thinking of releasing it for free under an open-source license.
Would any gamedevs be interested in this?
I saw this video on Reddit of DuneCrawl, which uses my Asset Forge for sketching. I love it, in fact, I loved seeing this so much that it gave me a lot of inspiration. Big plans for Asset Forge, hopefully will already be able to share soon.
redd.it/1x2fy0r
Ry-angry Simpson retweeted
Blowing up those Russian data centers might be the first time my tax dollars have paid for a missile that actually made the world a better place.
Ry-angry Simpson retweeted
Announcing RimWorld update 1.7! It moves the game from Unity to the Waylith Engine, our own in-house engine.
In our tests, RimWorld runs 2-4x faster. You can try it now on the unstable beta.
Oh, and RimWorld isn’t the only game on Waylith...
Read on Steam: store.steampowered.com/news/…
I'm absolutely cackling at the amount of biddy blas in seeing plastered all over my tiktok 😂 his little voice and being mimicking SCRIBDOON is cracking me up so much 😂





















