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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.

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…

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.

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.

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

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.

It's still really easy to hack and reprogram road signs | StateScoop https://statescoop.com/its-still-really-easy-to-hack-and-reprogram-road-signs/

It’s still really easy to hack and reprogram road signs
Easily accessed through default passwords that are never changed, road signs can be altered to state anything from video-game jokes to zombie warnings.

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

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

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.

⚠️ 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.

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

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…

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

«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/

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

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

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

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 …

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.

The naked kitties are helping!

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

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)

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

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

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

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

'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.

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…

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.

I've been tracking #Hopetown 's Kickstarter as I've become interested in #discolike video games. I don't have skills in Kickstarter analytics, so I picked The Sinking City as a comparator:
<https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/frogwares/the-sinking-city-2/#chart-daily>
Hopetown's has fewer people interested:
<https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/longduegames/hopetown/#chart-daily>
Which may sadden the Hopetown devs, as the Kickstarter aims to show future investors there's interest in the game. They say the $$ won't help them. But I understand they already have at least 1 tech bro investor, so is Kickstarter really the venue? The Kickstarter page boasts so many industry credits & mentors, it feels uncool to ask for community help.