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Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers, one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country, sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment (Li Yuan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/busines

‘Who Killed Love?’ A Video Game Plays to Male Resentment in China.
A popular and contentious game, Revenge on Gold Diggers, sheds light on misogyny, inequality and the feeling among many men that they are economic victims.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sufjan Stevens:
🎵 Video game
#NowPlaying #SufjanStevens
https://music.sufjan.com/track/video-game
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Q8B1nnUBlJz0VTajyk1IS

⚠️ Please BE AWARE that there is a chance that if you transfer your save file from Switch to Switch 2, you may lose it. This person lost 20 years of data that they'd had since their Game Boy Advance. Totally brutal. It's a huge gamble, and to me, might not be worth it if you really value your save data.

'There's nothing I can do. I don't even know if I wanna play anymore' — Pokémon fan left devastated after '20 years worth of data' lost in Switch to Switch 2 transfer
‘My Scarlet save file is gone,’ sobs gamer. They say no error messages popped up during their Friday the 13th transfer attempt.

SAG-AFTRA ends the 300 day video game actors strike after reaching a tentative deal for a new Interactive Media Agreement with the major video game companies (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/video-game-actors-strike-ends-…

Video Game Actors Strike Ends
The video game actors strike has ended.

Oh yeah, my copy of the Psygnosis book is being shipped ✌️
#psygnosis

So, I have been working on a video game for a while now, I will send random works from it around with the hashtag #GardenGame from now on, I will try to do so in as regular a basis as possible, so for today you get some plants. I will try to give something better next week

On QoE-Aware Traffic Management for Real-time, Interactive Video with Time-variant Spatial Complexity
Szilveszter N\'adas, Lars Ernstr\"om, David Lindero, Jonathan Lynam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11798

On QoE-Aware Traffic Management for Real-time, Interactive Video with Time-variant Spatial Complexity
We analyzed spatial complexity, defined as the relationship between the required bitrate and a corresponding picture Quality of Experience (QoE) metric, for realistic, long, real-time, interactive video clips. Apart from variation across different content types, e.g., game genres, we discovered time-variability within a clip from second to second, and explored the ramifications for traffic management. We introduced utility as an elegant way to manage resource sharing preferences. Our analysis o…

Game studio are really closing in on announcing and canceling a video game in the same social media post.
#videogames

…and it is done! I need to make some more 13x17 prints now that I’ve got this empty space — guess which print covers up a hole my evil twin made in the paint before we learned about Blu-Tack
#aliceoflife #office #magic

In the video game Watch Dogs Legion, set in late 2020s London, you can't drive on Oxford Street west of Oxford Circus.
Also they rebuilt the Euston Arch.
https://www.london.gov.uk/overwhelming-support-for-mayors-oxford-street-plans

SAG-AFTRA's Interactive Media Agreement with game companies requires performers' informed consent for all planned AI use on their voice, likeness, and movements (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/sag-aftra-video-game-deal-details/

SAG-AFTRA Video Game Deal Includes AI Consent Guardrails, Minimum Rates for Digital Replica Use
Full text of the tentative SAG-AFTRA agreement will be released June 18 for a ratification vote period that ends July 9

Fact Check: Video Game Footage Does NOT Show Actual Downing Of Israeli Plane -- Footage NOT Released by Iran: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/fact-check-video-game-footage.html

SAG-AFTRA's Interactive Media Agreement with game companies requires performers' informed consent for all planned AI use on their voice, likeness, and movements (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/sag-aftra-video-game-deal-details/

SAG-AFTRA Video Game Deal Includes AI Consent Guardrails, Minimum Rates for Digital Replica Use
Full text of the tentative SAG-AFTRA agreement will be released June 18 for a ratification vote period that ends July 9

YES!
I beat American McGee's Alice again!
Man, I love this #video #game.
#videogames

SAG-AFTRA ends the 300 day video game actors strike after reaching a tentative deal for a new Interactive Media Agreement with the major video game companies (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

SAG-AFTRA Suspends Strike Against Video Game Companies, Paving Way for Return to Work
The union had taken a stand on artificial intelligence, among other concerns, as it looked to advocate for voice and performance capture workers.

SAG-AFTRA Inks Tentative New Deal With Major Video Game Studios
https://deadline.com/2025/06/sag-aftra-video-game-deal-ai-1236429174/

YouTube suggested this video to me and yes absolutely N *is* a perfect game! It is in a league with Tetris. Absolute S-Tier game in my book.
https://youtu.be/TZYRH2jnlBg

From Fads to Classics -- Analyzing Video Game Trend Evolutions through Steam Tags
Nicolas Grelier, Johannes Pfau, Nicolas Mathieu, St\'ephane Kaufmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08881

From Fads to Classics -- Analyzing Video Game Trend Evolutions through Steam Tags
The video game industry deals with a fast-paced, competitive and almost unpredictable market. Trends of genres, settings and modalities change on a perpetual basis, studios are often one big hit or miss away from surviving or perishing, and hitting the pulse of the time has become one of the greatest challenges for industrials, investors and other stakeholders. In this work, we aim to support the understanding of video game trends over time based on data-driven analysis, visualization and inter…

Question for y'all #SystemicGames¹ folks who like multiplayer/#coop games:
How do you logistically manage actually having a co-op, multiplayer playthrough of a complex video-game in your life?
I've always struggled, hard, with satisfying my needs here; not only is it so hard to find people who 1. like complex games, 2. like multiplayer/social gaming, and 3. have time/s…

Good news for creators.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/industry-video-game-actors-pass-agreement-with-studios-ai-security-2025-07-10/

This makes me a bit nervous as I really love this game. However some speculation I’ve seen is the Sasquatch could become a much-needed mascot for Apple Arcade.
https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-acquires-indie-video-game-studio-rac7/

SAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with Activision, EA, Epic, Take-Two, and other game companies on the Interactive Media Contract, after months of strikes (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/sag-video-game-companie…

SAG-AFTRA and Video Game Companies Reach Tentative New Deal
SAG-AFTRA and the video game companies have reached a tentative deal, putting and end to the strike in sight.

SAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with Activision, EA, Epic, Take-Two, and other game companies on the Interactive Media Contract, after months of strikes (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/sag-video-game-companie…

SAG-AFTRA and Video Game Companies Reach Tentative New Deal
SAG-AFTRA and the video game companies have reached a tentative deal, putting and end to the strike in sight.

Honestly, I want to be remembered as an anarcho-syndicalist who really cared about building solidarity and living a simpler, more meaningful life.
Not just some random three-year-old autistic gamer who spends way too many hours glued to the same video game.
Like, there’s more to me than that, you know?
#Anarchism

What’s your favorite computer or video game packaging?

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
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FFS, this smacks of "whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine, but it would **cost us money** to do things **the right way**, why do you hate games makers?":
Yes, I signed the UK petition. Bloody Brexit means I can't sign the EU one.
https://www.gamingonlinux…

«Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game. Recruit crew members, plan escape routes, acquire the precious cargo, and bounce out of the joint as fast as you can.»
That's an amazing premise for a video game!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/Relooted/

"it feels like the hope with generative AI is that no matter how much you may hate it, the goal is to bombard you with its horrors and its excesses so frequently that you become numb to it."
(Original title: I’m Getting Real Tired Of Not Being Able To Trust That A Video Game Doesn’t Have AI Crap In It)
https://

I'm Getting Real Tired Of Not Being Able To Trust That A Video Game Doesn't Have AI Crap In It - Aftermath
It sucks that players are having to scour every asset and line of dialogue

look if you want me to watch your video on game optimization you have to stop it with the patrick bateman ass aesthetic

escape to a frothing seaside of the mind with last night's frow show on @…. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250708

Weiteres #DnD Videospiel angekündigt
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/new-dungeons-and-dragons-video-game-giant-skull-1236415…

I talk a lot about AK-xolotl and I finally got my Switch to send a video to my phone decently. Maybe I'll post a few more. Think AK-xolotl is on several consoles, it's on Steam, etc. Here's a regular level with some enemies, etc. A blast of a game. Addictive. One more run!
#AKxolotl #TwinStickShooters

Olha, @… . Como eu dizia ontem.
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.ap

News Literacy Project (@newslit.org)
❌ NO: This is not genuine footage of a military attack by #Ukraine on #Russia. The viral clip shows footage from the video game Arma 3. ⚠️ Video game footage is often repurposed & shared out of context. #RumorGuard post: go.newslit.org/drone

Can youtubers please add a small “game name” caption on the corner whenever they show a screencap of a game in their videos, even if it’s just tangentially related to the video?
Sometimes there are really cool looking ones that I’d want to learn more about but they don’t mention the name :(

Juhu: Rocket Beans setzen "Game Two" in Eigenregie fort #GameTwo https://www.dwdl.de/nachrichten/102799/rocket_beans_setzen_game_two_in_eigenregie_for…

Rocket Beans setzen "Game Two" in Eigenregie fort - DWDL.de
Um das Video- und Computerspielmagazins "Game Two" fortzusetzen, haben die Rocket Beans viele Gespräche geführt. Einen neuen Auftraggeber konnte man dabei aber nicht gewinnen, nun soll es unter eigener Flagge weitergehen. Was sich dadurch ändern wird…

Dentsu: the video game industry attracts less than 5% of global ad spend despite 3.4B gamers worldwide; 60 game-based productions were in development in 2024 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/video-g…

Video Game Industry Draws Less Than 5% of Ad, Marketing Spend
According to a new report from Dentsu Gaming, less than 5% of global media investment goes toward the the video game industry.

Yes, the only video game I play is #Warframe!
MR 26 – Wisp Is Love, Wisp Is Live
Ballas is dead, Margulis’s mercy, Lotus’s final kiss.
But Kaya Velasco? She is eternal.
Ballas gone, but she outlives sentient beings.
BALLAS DEAD, NOT KAYA! 😘 💋
I don’t care if she’s code and pixels, my heart’s got no patch notes!
They can’t stop me from loving a digital …

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
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The Verge’s open graph description savagely drags Death Stranding with “Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding is being turned into a video game.” 🤣
I should give the game another shot, but 2 hours of “cinematic” at the start is too much for this old man.

SAG-AFTRA says Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with game studios, including AI protections like consent requirements (Danielle Broadway/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

The naked kitties are helping!

Meanwhile in Dwarf Fortress, construction of the temple to Bisek Cavernmoth, god of darkness and the night, has hit a stumbling block when my stonemason took it upon himself to decorate it with a statue of a slug.
Even more disturbingly, this appears to be a therapeutic endeavour for young Vutok.
#DwarfFortress

Raiders' Geno Smith goes off on critics of youth football game controversy https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-geno-smith-goes-critics-youth-football-ga…

I've been playing The Last of Us Part 1. Only a few hours in, but holy hell, this is tense. I don't think I've had my heart race like that while playing video games for a long time, and I'm getting really invested in the story and the relationship with Ellie. Not to mention the absolutely haunting opening sequence. Fantastic game so far.
Also, massive props to the #Wine and

I used to fantasize about video games wowing audiences by using AI to do things previously impossible.
Voiceovers using your chosen character name.
A “teleport in” effect using a latent space walk for a unique look.
Fighting game CPU opponents that feel human.
Pokémon games with all 1,025 mons and dozens of animations each.
But my fantasy will never come true. The features might appear, but anything AI will produce more controversy than wowing.
Justifiabl…

Me waiting in the call for @… (I refuse to actually stand up for our standup before she arrives)

SAG-AFTRA says Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with game studios, including AI protections like consent requirements (Danielle Broadway/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Swamp Thing -- 'Alligator Alcatraz' sounds like a video game or thrill ride at an amusement park. (Jennifer Schulze/[Indistinct Chatter] ...)
https://jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/swamp-thing
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p144#a250702p144

Hong Kong invokes its national security law to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the law to block a game (Alan Wong/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

the frow show is now departing, 3 hours of new music & diversionary tactics, from now 'til midnight on @…. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250708

#tf2 is unlike any other video game:
https://tube.asterisk.lol/w/uEfRVJDMoN2ZZUoGEg77CK (rather slow)

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
Also described at:

GamerAstra: Enhancing Video Game Accessibility for Blind and Low-Vision Players through a Multi-Agent AI Framework
Tianrun Qiu, Changxin Chen, Sizhe Cheng, Yiming Yang, Yixiao Guo, Zhicong Lu, Yuxin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22937

GamerAstra: Enhancing Video Game Accessibility for Blind and Low-Vision Players through a Multi-Agent AI Framework
Blind and low-vision (BLV) players encounter critical challenges in engaging with video games due to the inaccessibility of visual elements, difficulties in navigating interfaces, and limitations in sending interaction input. Moreover, the development of specialized accessibility features typically requires substantial programming effort and is often implemented on a game-by-game basis. To address these challenges, we introduce \textit{GamerAstra}, a generalized accessibility framework that lev…

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

All Proof of Work But No Proof of Play
Hayder Tirmazi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23435 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23435

All Proof of Work But No Proof of Play
Speedrunning is a competition that emerged from communities of early video games such as Doom (1993). Speedrunners try to finish a game in minimal time. Provably verifying the authenticity of submitted speedruns is an open problem. Traditionally, best-effort speedrun verification is conducted by on-site human observers, forensic audio analysis, or a rigorous mathematical analysis of the game mechanics. Such methods are tedious, fallible, and, perhaps worst of all, not cryptographic. Motivated b…

Oh hey, it's #ScreenshotSaturday , here's the latest mockup from the video game adaptation of Battle of Tarot I'm working on with some lovely people.
Everything is still a work-in-progress and not final at all, but trying to get the visual style nailed down.
#GameDev

Microsoft layoffs of even long-time industry vets signal video game industry brain drain #gaming

Microsoft Layoffs Signal Video Game Industry Brain Drain - Aftermath
Multiple industry veterans have left Xbox in the wake of layoffs

In *today's* #WatchDogsLegion was a prophecy, not a video game:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/beekeeper-unleashed-a-swarm-of-b…

Beekeeper Unleashed a Swarm of Bees on Police During Traffic Stop
A routine seatbelt stop turned into an insect ambush when a 70-year-old beekeeper allegedly sicced his bees on two traffic officers...

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
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'Madden NFL 26' cover reveal: Saquon Barkley's mesmerizing backwards hurdle featured on latest installment

https://www.cbssports.com/nf…

Take-Two, NBA, and National Basketball Players Association expand their partnership to launch NBA Take-Two Media, producing original content, live events, more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Take-Two Interactive, NBA Ink Expansive Deal On Entertainment, Gaming, Live Events and More
The video game publisher of the NBA 2K franchise will partner with the league on original content and competitive gaming via its new banner, while extending their multiyear partnership.

Never woulda happened if we didn’t let chicks write games with no guns.
https://bsky.app/profile/maiamindel.bsky.social/post/3ls5slysxyk2p

Please share this link about the EIGHT (STEM / coding / design / engineering summer camps Shelly Fryer and I are teaching in June and July 2025 through "Summer at Providence Day School!"
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/summer-2025

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - Summer 2025
Students: Come have FUN this summer and develop your STEM / coding / design skills with Dr. Fryer and Mrs. Fryer at "Summer Day School at Providence Day School!" All week-long classes are open to BOTH current PDS students and students attending other schools! Direct links to register for each camp

Using Psychophysiological Insights to Evaluate the Impact of Loot Boxes on Arousal
Gianmarco Tedeschi, Rune Kristian Lundedal Nielsen, Paolo Burelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04906

Using Psychophysiological Insights to Evaluate the Impact of Loot Boxes on Arousal
This study investigates the psychophysiological effects of loot box interactions in video games and their potential similarities to those recorded during gambling interactions. Using electrodermal activity (EDA) measurements, the research examines player arousal during loot box interactions and explores the relationship between Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) severity and loot box interactions from a psychophysiological perspective. The study employs a custom-designed game to control experimenta…

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
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In a wide-ranging report, the BFI says AI companies are plundering 130K UK film and TV scripts to train AI models in a "direct threat" to the industry's future (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technolog…

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
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A look at Nintendo's US marketing, from targeting young boys in the 1980s to avant-garde GameCube ads in 2001, as its Switch 2 ads focus on online communal play (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/arts/ninten…

Nintendo Has Something to Sell You
The marketing campaigns for the Switch 2 and its previous video game consoles provide a window into the company’s business strategy.

Donkey Kong Bananza looks like a perfect video game! Wild stuff!
🍌✊🏻
https://www.youtube.com/live/YVUidGTR8xg

Supercell makes Brawl Stars available on WeChat and says Clash Royale is "currently being developed" for a September launch on the WeChat mini-game platform (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3315…

Tencent-owned Supercell to launch titles like Clash Royale as WeChat mini games
The video game Brawl Stars is already available within WeChat, while Clash Royale will exclusively launch on the messaging app in September.

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
Also described at:

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
Also described at:

Donkey Kong Bananza looks like a perfect video game! Wild stuff!
🍌✊🏻
https://www.youtube.com/live/YVUidGTR8xg

Study: US kids who said their social media, phone, or video game use was "addictive" were 2x-3x more likely to have thoughts of suicide or self-harm by age 14 (Ellen Barry/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

Real Risk to Youth Mental Health Is ‘Addictive Use,’ Not Screen Time Alone, Study Finds
Researchers found children with highly addictive use of phones, video games or social media were two to three times as likely to have thoughts of suicide or to harm themselves.

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
Also described at:

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
Also described at:

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
Also described at:

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
Also described at: