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$2,500,000,000,000 wiped out from the US stock market in just 60 minutes. Democrats just popped the AI bubble.

Seeing aspiring artists attack a well respected and established illustrator is doing so much harm to their careers and they don’t even know. Being a good artist is half the job. Being someone people want to work with is the other half. When those who hire see you tearing down other artists for their prices and then accusing them of AI, we blacklist you. You reveal your red flags. Art is a community. Tearing down others is not how you get ahead. In life or art.

The economics behind AAA layoffs: AAA originally meant the highest credit rating: low risk of default. In games, the term should mean a proven, relatively low-risk investment with strong returns. FIFA, Madden and CoD fit that model. A $400M budget doesn't make a game AAA 1/10

Scales? Nah. Steel. 🦾✨ Brand new Quantum skins are coming in v1.18: Frostbite on 3rd November 🔥 Don't miss the Dev Stream tomorrow at 7pm UTC for a first look at the new update 🎥👀

Auroch Digital, developer of Warhammer 40K: Boltgun 2, is laying off around 25% of the studio less than two weeks after launch #WH40K #Boltgun2

It's pretty funny how these movies were considered low-brow shlock by critics when a good chunk of them are lit so much better than big budget movies now

Day 192 making my own TES until TES 6 comes out. Testing_Birdman_combat #daggerfall #elderscrolls #indiegamedev #pixelart

Wings of Dawn #ELDENRING #NIGHTREIGN

Debra Wilson admitted that using her face for Callisto in "Wolverine" was a mistake But the decision is always up to the developers: "That choice is made by the game designers, not me. I like games where my face is not used." Debra herself believes that if the character is you, it only hinders the immersion into the role.

Today we're standing up XBOX LABS (labs.xbox.com). Here is the note that I sent to the team: Team, The first video games emerged some 75 years ago. In the time since, there have been booms and busts, but every year there are more great games to play, more devices to play them, and best of all, more people than ever playing. That growth helped make XBOX what it is today, and we've helped shape the industry in return, from bringing hard drives to consoles and online gaming through Xbox Live to Game Pass and cloud gaming, alongside franchises that have brought millions of people together. In recent weeks, we've seen games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally designed to support. Windows PC builds have been translated to run on Apple Silicon or ported to run inside a browser through WebAssembly and WebGPU, the latter now approaching 90% global browser support. Perhaps more surprisingly, we've seen many of the biggest games in the world have been remixed into the source code of another. These experiments challenge long-held assumptions about our industry: the tether between software and hardware, the boundary between creation and play, and how people discover and experience games. While it is hard to predict the future of gaming, it is easy to see the possibilities in making great games easier to access, giving old games new life and allowing more players to become creators and co-creators. These are unmistakably good outcomes for players, even when (and sometimes because) they challenge our existing business models. To explore these possibilities, I’ve asked Scott to stand-up XBOX LABS, a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists whose job is to turn emerging ideas into things our players and developers can experience. We'll build in the open, learn from what people do, and measure success by whether more people are playing and creating. I think XBOX has an important role to play here. Coding became the first major workload for agents because they can write, run, and test software. Games share many of those same properties, and people spend more than 72 billion hours a year playing XBOX games, roughly five times the estimated time spent writing code worldwide. We've spent 25 years learning how to make great games, and I want our game makers to help shape what these new technologies make possible. As we learn, we’ll share the tools we build with developers across the industry, just as we always have. Our priorities aren't changing. We remain committed to the 4Cs, to making great games, to our hardware and to being responsible stewards of IP and the communities built around it. LABS gives us a way to explore new technology that is game design led without abandoning the work already underway. Asha

Happy Finally Fuckin Friday! Have a Super Fantastic Day Everyone! 🤗🖤🤗🖤🎬🍿🔪🩸🪓🎃🍂🎃🤘🏼 Jason X 2001

Hey everyone! I am still on the lookout for new senior/lead/principle opportunities. Check out my work or send it to someone you know and let's see what we can make happen! I have a lot of experience in all things game dev and character art, high poly/low poly, pbr and hand paint