“it was not an act of malevolence from TellTale”

“this specific situation isn’t on Telltale”

My experience - and those of my colleagues - in the game industry made me laugh at the idea of failing company giving out severance. Everyone I know has had the experience of working for a game studio that had mass lay-offs that not only didn’t pay severance, but actually had failed to pay workers owed salaries. In…

According to a now ex-employee of TT, episodes three and four of The Final Season of TWD weren’t finished - and those teams (plural) have been laid off completely. The official statement by TT was that the remaining staff are there to “fulfil the company’s obligations to its... partners.” Which would be Netflix - and,…

“Word is that the final season of TWD will be completed, probably to pay towards creditors.”

The game engine and gameplay innovation aren’t what make games expensive, though - big licensing fees, voice actors and game assets are what cost. From what I’ve heard, most of their games were running at a loss.

Looks like he started at Ensemble before moving to Blizzard. But that doesn’t change much, “everywhere” only consists of those two studios. If he had said “every studio I’ve seen,” or something to that effect, that would have been a bit more ambiguous and not so specific to those studios.

The White House was apparently allowing staff to wander around with unsecured personal phones - the president himself continues to use an unsecured, personal phone. Any foreign intelligence services wanting to listen in don’t even need the attention-seekers to do anything.

I am thinking about designers in particular, but to some degree it’s true of some other positions (especially higher level jobs). It’s not about having “Twitter followers” (because obviously that’s bullshit) - it’s about knowing the developer’s name; it’s about being able to see how they’ve been thinking about game…

Except, you know, she didn’t “go off” on the guy - her comments weren’t targeted at anyone in particular. And there’s zero indication she had ever been warned about her interactions, nor her co-worker (in fact, everything suggests this came out of the blue). This is entirely about the company having a knee-jerk…

“No, that guy’s comment, while I can see being annoying, is not harassment...like, not at all.”

Social media raises profiles and in an industry like game development, having people be aware of your name gets you jobs. There tends to be a lot of turn-over in the industry, so developers can spend a lot of time looking for jobs. Game developer friends of mine who have the most successful careers are the ones who…

QUOTE | “Anyone who has ever said ‘this is the future and this part of gaming is dead’ has been proven wrong every single time. We like to try it all. For a long time we wanted to try a multiplayer game and we had this idea. We shouldn’t be afraid.” – Bethesda studio head Todd Howard on why games-as-a-service is…

Yeah, it’s weird. It’s like, “I want this note to be racist, but not too racist.”

The platform of the Texas Republican party explicitly denounced the teaching of critical thinking skills in schools... Yeah, it’s by design.

“I’m not sure they are capable of fully understanding the difference between patriotism and nationalism/fascism.”

Well it depends on what you mean by ‘get back where we were’.

“that they can’t/won’t/don’t want to understand it”

“Which means other countries can’t assume it won’t happen again”

The only way I can see anything changing for those people is if Fox “news” starts being more reality-based, so they start getting exposed to what’s actually going on in the world, rather than getting propaganda. (I guess that could happen...)