Have you heard the definition of insanity?

Rec Room sandbox platform is shutting down. They previously fired half of their team and were still unable to find profits.

Billions in valuation and over $145m as the investment round D in 2021 weren't enough to make it commercially sustainable. But to be fair, Roblox still lives at net loss despite $4.9B in profits.

#VR@GameDEV
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#NoCode@GameDEV

Morning, folks

#AI@GameDEV
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And Pragmata gone gold!

#Capcom@GameDEV
#Pragmata@GameDEV

Players discovered a spawn point for gold bars in Crimson Desert. This is a very valuable item but guards will hunt you down if you will steal the gold bar.

Instead you can steal the whole fireplace where it appears!

#GameDesign@GameDEV
#RPG@GameDEV
#ImmersiveSim@GameDEV

Okay, that's technically correct

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#Blender@GameDEV

It's time to super your meat, boys!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3288210/Super_Meat_Boy_3D/

https://www.gog.com/en/game/super_meat_boy_3d
#IndieGames@GameDEV
#Platformers@GameDEV

It's still cold in Sofia but trees said fk it, we're going to blossom now. So the city looks spectacular and smells like the best honey you've ever seen ☺️

Don't forget to touch grass or maybe some flowers too, dudes and dudettes!

#OffTopic@GameDEV

Yeah, no thanks
I'm out

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#AI@GameDEV

Crimson Desert and Slay the Spire 2 are still the best selling paid games of the week. Kind reminder that media believed Crimson Desert is aiming for a failure.

Screenshot by @discomode

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#Steam@GameDEV

Ubisoft is making a move: it's a mobile shooter in The Division universe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhE68uZi1Bw
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#Ubisoft@GameDEV
#Multiplayer@GameDEV

And MADFINGER brought the biggest update Spearhead to their Gray Zone Warfare (they are nice folks and the game is a bit underappreciated IMO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCKnT__J4FM
#Multiplayer@GameDEV

Tim Sweeney accidentally fired terminally ill worker who's plan was to die anyway but he lost insurance and his wife had to ask for help. Since it's seemingly impossible to get any new insurance if you're dying.

Tim said he was unaware due to medical confidentiality and now will provide the support and insurance. And the medical condition (since it was not disclosed) was not a factor for layoff.

Valve once faced the same issue in 2004. The writer Erik Wolpaw (Psychonauts (2005), Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006), Portal (2007), Portal 2 (2011) and Half-Life: Alyx (2020)) tried to quit his job due to severe medical terms, but Gabe listened to him and changed his job description to "Get better" and told him that his job now is to go to his wife, spend time with family and get better. And he got!

Pic related!

#meme@GameDEV
#MobileGames@GameDEV

The biggest AI drama so far: Anthropic accidentally uploaded Claude into public storage. Thousands of people tried to simply re-upload it and faced DMCA strikes.

One mad mind at 4 AM woke up and used Codex AI to rewrite the whole thing into Python and then Rust. The outcome made by another AI is not technically the same as Claude Code itself. So the company struggles to take it down.

#Python@GameDEV
#RustLang@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

Critics hated the new Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Now let's wait and see how it gets $207m during the first week in cinemas and solid retention on the second one.

#Nintendo@GameDEV
#Movies@GameDEV
#Journalism@GameDEV

I use Mint by the way

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