After ten years of design and testing, I am super happy to announce and release MythmasterRPG, a fully featured, fantasy TTRPG, available now in free open beta at
@MythmasterRPG
After over a year of working in the darkness, happy to announce I’m working as the Creative Director on Assassin’s Creed: Codename Hexe, with an amazing team in Montreal!
#UbiForward
It’s been more than 10 years since I shipped a game. Being here with this team to represent this game is such an incredible honour. Thrilled to share more.
#WatchDogsLegion
#UbiE3
Arkane gone? Fuck that. They made at least a couple of the best games of the past 3 decades. Games are amazing, but game industry is a fucking dumpster fire. The shitbirds who pissed in the well should be held accountable - not the brilliant creatives who made the masterworks.
I guess I’ll tweet this again.
For those impacted today (or yesterday), or over the last couple of months, we have 187 open positions on our jobs site as of yesterday - that’s for just our studio. Worldwide there are many, many more. Apply, or you can reach out to me directly.
Pimping gen AI as a foundation for future profits is scary. He’s painting himself in a corner. If profits don’t materialize ethically, they can be made to unethically. If the next few years does not yield massive stock price growth what will he do?
EA CEO: 60 percent of development processes could be "impacted by generative AI"
Long-serving boss Andrew Wilson said generative AI is something the publisher is "embracing deeply"
This is my last social media post before deleting FB & Twitter apps from my mobile devices. I almost never use them from PC, so if we never virtually-not-really-engage-with-one-another again, it's been lovely.
Billionaires giving their disgusting wealth away to charities so we will write nice headlines about them and idolize them is just them thinking they are better suited to deciding how to distribute wealth than democratic institutions are.
A couple years ago, I wrote about the most insightful pieces of criticism that came after Far Cry 2. There has been come amazing criticism of Watch Dogs: Legion, but I feel like this new one is fresh and worth sharing.
@bryanintihar
That’s how I looked the first time I played Spider-Man 2 (which I know your team didn’t make, but is one of my all time favorites). You recaptured that and exceeded it with this game. Masterpiece. Thank-you.
I moved to San Francisco and the Giants won the World Series. I moved to Seattle and the Seahawks won the Superbowl. I moved to Toronto and Raptors won the NBA Championship. I'm moving back to Montreal on time for Game 5. Just sayin'.
#GoHabsGo
We're playing Far Cry 2 with Director
@ClickNothing
and delving into the gameplay systems that made the game so compelling. Plus, we're giving away Ubisoft+ subscription codes so you can revisit the classic with us! Tune in now at Twitch.
@bruce_straley
I apologize. In my opinion, ludonarrative dissonance is a concept to be used as a (formal abstract design) tool, not to judge. Uncharted 2 is a *great* game, and an important one. It’s a shame if a tool meant to improve all of our work is used to divide us. Congrats on 11versary.
Twitter should have a button you can press when you’re upset that will lock you out of tweeting entirely for 8 hours. They could even A/B test to see if 8 or 12 hours makes more sense.
Holy shit, what a crazy day! I literally can’t get through email or social media or texts. an hour spent trying to respond and I’m further in the hole than when I started.
For those impacted today, or over the last couple of months, we have 187 open positions on our jobs site today - that’s for just our studio. Worldwide there are many, many more. Apply, or you can reach out to me directly.
Watch Dogs: Legion is nearly here and the Ubisoft News team spent some extended time with the game.
Watch as they revisit highlights from an hour of their gameplay footage and trade stories about what they got up to fighting for London’s resistance.
Also, if she wanted to give a big 'fuck you' to her ex, the very best way to do that would be to spend the billions she got from the divorce to force his corporation to pay taxes. That would be awesome!
I spoke to
@ClickNothing
, director of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Far Cry 2, and the forthcoming Assassin’s Creed Hexe, about growing up with a single parent, the challenge of steering vast blockbusters, and his experience of the recent storms at Ubisoft:
Maybe If they spent 23.6 Billion lobbying government to change the tax code to close the loopholes that allow trillion dollar companies like Amazon to pay less taxes than my kids' teacher, that might work.
There are 2 seasons to life: the one where you forget that lightbulbs are a thing, and the one where every single lightbulb in your whole fucking house burns out within a 96 hour window.
Shit’s pretty dark right now. Even for me. Just listened to London Calling, top to bottom, and I feel a lot better. If you’ve never done that before, I recommend. If you have, well, I remind.
I look forward to a future where you all ask 'what was that tweet about' and I regale you with tales of restraining orders, hockey games, and home inspections. If you're not thrilled yet, stay tuned - it only gets more normal from here.
I’ve been increasingly swayed to the idea that we live in a simulation these past couple years, but if Bolsonaro dies of the fucking hiccups that would not only prove it to me, but would delightfully suggest some sort of Pynchonesque author of our fate.
@stuckbug
Credit goes to Ubi as a company, to our studio head, and also to
@scrookz
- a producer who always has energy for the team - for ensuring fair crediting and representation for everyone who worked on this amazing (and enormous) game.
@lizardengland
In fairness, (almost) no one on earth had experience doing the things I was envisioning asking you to do, and you were a proven designer who I had ‘worked with’ and who exhibited a passion for those kinds of things. It wasn’t random.
Didnt mean to give the impression that Im in a bad place. A very emotional time can also be good. Mine has been a bit of a rollercoaster of extremes, but Im fine. We're all fine here. You know me... I'll roll with it all and come out a bit better and a bit weirder in the end.
After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.
Why, after gas hit $4/gal in 2008, didn’t we let it keep going? As an irreplaceable energy storage commodity that fuels climate change, we should have put an incrementing tax on it of $0.25/gal/year, regardless of supply, and used the revenue to fund alt energy infrastructure.