Telegram short domain name (all external links rely on) was just removed from global DNS system without any context, warning, or even notification for the owner.

Basically, the entity who owns ME domains urgently placed it on serverHold = forced DNS to stop serving it. As of now, no one knows why. Funny enough, DomainMe phone is no longer in service and their address is not a real office.

#SocialMedia@GameDEV
#Legal@GameDEV

Microslop created the issue and now they are going to fix it with search settings in Windows 11. It will show previews of files (text, documents), allow to opt-out from online search and deprioritize it in general, etc.

Even their own announcement shows the irony of how a local Outlook app could be completely missed from search and replaced by some useless web overview.

A perfect case of poor UI-UX that should neve be a problem in the first place but they wanted to inflate Bing usage numbers.

#Microsoft@GameDEV
#Windows@GameDEV

Somewhat fewer bits left (via)

#LayOffs@GameDEV

1047 Games, the studio behind Splitgate and Empulse is firing a significant but undisclosed amount of people (again).

They already laid off 45 people (28% of staff) last year when Splitgate 2 failed commercially. Now Empulse ("inspired by Titanfall") found no players and therefore no revenue to keep the company up.

#LayOffs@GameDEV
#Multiplayer@GameDEV

A logo of the strike from the Ubisoft Barcelona union: this office developed all underwater missions of the Black Flag remake and then 50 of them were fired.

#Ubisoft@GameDEV
#LayOffs@GameDEV

Just wasted two days fixing the website issue because the core now uses more typed approach and a module developer wrote a fairly unreliable code. Even logs were falling apart 😞

And how's your day going?

Blender 5.2 LTS has been delayed for a few days but finally arrived:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4OXlrxqIx0
#Blender@GameDEV

Sounds like a good idea!
Who's with me?
(I'm not going)

#Bungie@GameDEV
#PlayStation@GameDEV

Wait...

#GTA@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

When you steal the wrong car

Same issue with Trigun: they can't make a worthy equivalent and shift to satire and fanservice

#Anime@GameDEV

3DFX magazine ads were wild 😌