Over 20 years, AbleGamers has become synonymous with the accessibility movement as its presence and influence grew across the industry. However, new reports from former employees and members of the accessibility community describe abuse, financial mismanagement from leadership, and a board that failed to protect its employees.

A French court on Tuesday found Gérard Depardieu guilty of sexually assaulting two women on a film set, sentencing the French film icon to an 18-month suspended prison term.

AI-driven fraud is leading people to verify every online interaction they have.

Studio head Thomas Mahler is having one, with a series of confusing, contradictory social media posts

'Giant Bomb has new owners, and you're looking at them'

The Infinity Nikki community is not boycotting. It's girlcotting.

The wall-to-wall union of Blizzard Team 4 includes nearly 200 developers

A video essay about fascists' mentality and their rhetorical strategies beyond their dishonest arguments. How they subvert discourse by wasting everyone's time.

Last week I couldn't play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. This week I can play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Case closed, right? I just demonstrated that anybody can "git gud" if they struggle for long enough, didn't I? No, I simply showed that I could personally do it for one particular game.

Let's talk about gitting gud, understanding the needs of others, and how it all relates to the arc words of Clair Obscur. For those who come after.

Workers are fighting for working conditions and mental health support.

Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.

Elon Musk’s AI bot is undressing women on X.

Industry Reacts To Trump's "Insane" Movie Tariff Idea: "This Would Destroy The Independent Film Sector"

A researcher who worked on Assassin's Creed Shadows reveals how she contacted the online trolls targeting her with abuse, with surprising results.

Let’s talk about Seth, Jackson’s Community Bigot

This is probably one of the last few relevant articles from Polygon before its demise. RIP Polygon

Multiple staff laid off

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28925680

This is why we need to have 90 dollar games! /s

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62767567

Hat tip to Kevin Bunch: https://bsky.app/profile/atariarchive.org/post/3lnzvdhowhc26

Let’s say that 300-400 workers had just gotten laid off as a result of poor sales of games like EA Sports FC 25, as well as longstanding mismanagement of series like Dragon Age and Titanfall. Wouldn’t you think one or even a few of these people could stand to take a pay cut in order to prevent such an outcome?

For context (if you’re a sane person and not extremely online), researcher William Costello recently did a simple, anonymous Twitter poll. Men and women were invited to rate pictures of British singer Olly Murs when he was huskier vs. when he really hit his gym goals and became legitimately shredded.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/33039410

Tony Gilroy pulled from 6,000 years of history when making Andor

In a show of solidarity with the Palestinian-led BDS movement, indie label Ice Water Games has removed one of its projects, open-world tactics RPG Tenderfoot Tactics, from the Xbox store.

It is likely that there will never be a site like 4chan again.