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Thomas BIDAUX 🔜 Gstar @icotom.icopartners.com · 13h

Seeing @loooah.com in the featured image was an unexpected boon of my afternoon. 😄

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 14h

The UK Best Places to Work Awards 2025 took place at the Royal Institution in London last week, and now the entire awards ceremony is available to view online.

www.gamesindustry.biz/watch-the-ga...

Watch the GamesIndustry.biz UK Best Places to Work Awards 2025

The full ceremony is now online to view

www.gamesindustry.biz

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 14h

The UK Best Places to Work Awards 2025 took place at the Royal Institution in London last week, and now the entire awards ceremony is available to view online.

www.gamesindustry.biz/watch-the-ga...

Watch the GamesIndustry.biz UK Best Places to Work Awards 2025

The full ceremony is now online to view

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Thomas BIDAUX 🔜 Gstar @icotom.icopartners.com · 1d

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Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · 2d

wake up babe, new absolutely bonkers indie videogame resource just dropped

René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 2d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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GameDiscoverCo @gamediscoverco.bsky.social · 3d

What were the top new Steam (& console) releases of Sept. 2025. Here's what we think, in the latest GameDiscoverCo newsletter: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/sept-2025s...

Sept. 2025's top new Steam (& console) games revealed...

Also: last month's most-streamed games, and lots of discovery news.

newsletter.gamediscover.co

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Thomas BIDAUX 🔜 Gstar @icotom.icopartners.com · 3d

I just backed Creatures Volume 3: Draconis – A Peaceful Dragon Compendium on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/117...

Creatures Volume 3: Draconis – A Peaceful Dragon Compendium

Discover 70+ new majestic dragons to bring serenity and wonder to your next 5E campaign ☀️ Compatible 2014 & 2024

www.kickstarter.com

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Thomas BIDAUX 🔜 Gstar @icotom.icopartners.com · 3d

The game got funded under 2 hours - very promising start.

Epictellers Entertainment @epictellers.bsky.social · 3d

This is it, this is now, KICKSTATER IS LIVE!

Starfinder: Afterlight is funded for its core vision. But with you, it becomes legendary.

Support this Kickstarter now!

👉 http://epictellers.com/kickstarter

#StarfinderAfterlight #Kickstarter

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ICO @icopartners.com · 3d

💫 Sci-fi RPG Starfinder: Afterlight is live on Kickstarter!

Battle across the Pact Worlds, lead a legendary crew where your choices shape their destiny, and well... save the galaxy while you're at it!

🔗 www.kickstarter.com/projects/epi...

Starfinder: Afterlight 💫

Gather your crew and save the galaxy in this party-based RPG featuring Starfinder 2e ruleset where magic meets technology.

www.kickstarter.com

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Thomas BIDAUX 🔜 Gstar @icotom.icopartners.com · 3d

I just backed Starfinder: Afterlight 💫 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/epi...

Starfinder: Afterlight 💫

Gather your crew and save the galaxy in this party-based RPG featuring Starfinder 2e ruleset where magic meets technology.

www.kickstarter.com

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Thomas BIDAUX 🔜 Gstar @icotom.icopartners.com · 4d

Very happy we received the Best Place to Work award last week, but I also think this warrants a thread and explaining why we care about them.

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 7d

The UK Best Places to Work Awards 2025 took place at the Royal Institution in London on October 2, with special awards going to Behaviour Interactive, NaturalMotion, Observer Interactive, Maverick Games, Rare, and Wushu Studios.

www.gamesindustry.biz/winners-of-t...

Winners of the UK Best Places To Work Awards 2025 revealed

Twenty-three UK companies were recognised for their excellence in supporting staff

www.gamesindustry.biz

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pantaloon | ITAW Demo OUT NOW 👁️ @pantaloon.io · 8d

BONK! It's October. The best month. And we've chummed up with @rawfury.bsky.social to bring Ballionaire to our newsletter; 3000 keys will be dropping on Oct 30th.

Subscribe and get bold & bizarre games to your inbox: www.pantaloon.io

We have 5 keys for Bluesky, too! Follow & share this to be in x

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Thomas BIDAUX 🔜 Gstar @icotom.icopartners.com · 4d

Big thanks @gibiz.bsky.social for putting this together every year.

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Photo of the Best Places to Work 2025 event with two members of the ICO Team, holding the awards for the company.

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Thomas BIDAUX 🔜 Gstar @icotom.icopartners.com · 4d

We got an award three times now, but we also didn't get it twice. Each submission was incredibly valuable, and I would recommend considering it for your own business if you don't have the means to put in place a proper 3rd party managed company review.

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Thomas BIDAUX 🔜 Gstar @icotom.icopartners.com · 4d

@kroniksan.bsky.social likes to say this is the only award he cares about winning,
I like to say that's an award I don't care about winning.
Also, technically, this is the only award we are submitting to, as we see its value in the process.

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Thomas BIDAUX 🔜 Gstar @icotom.icopartners.com · 4d

That informed our plans for 2025, we put together a number of initiatives to improve on that front.

As a team of 20, we talk all the time about our processes and we are close to the day-to-day. But having a tool that allows all of us to take a step back, assess what we are doing, is precious.

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Thomas BIDAUX 🔜 Gstar @icotom.icopartners.com · 4d

As a company, we receive learnings from those anonymous submissions, and it is an amazing tool to gauge where we are doing well, where we are on par, and where we need to improve.

For instance, in the 2024 report, it was highlighted that we were lacking on the training side of things.

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Thomas BIDAUX 🔜 Gstar @icotom.icopartners.com · 4d

This is not about winning the awards - as part of the submission, all the employees are given an anonymous form to fill in about many aspects of the company and how it functions. The questions are pretty thorough and comprehensive.

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Thomas BIDAUX 🔜 Gstar @icotom.icopartners.com · 4d

Very happy we received the Best Place to Work award last week, but I also think this warrants a thread and explaining why we care about them.

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 7d

The UK Best Places to Work Awards 2025 took place at the Royal Institution in London on October 2, with special awards going to Behaviour Interactive, NaturalMotion, Observer Interactive, Maverick Games, Rare, and Wushu Studios.

www.gamesindustry.biz/winners-of-t...

Winners of the UK Best Places To Work Awards 2025 revealed

Twenty-three UK companies were recognised for their excellence in supporting staff

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Lisa Kneidl (she/her) @lisaorgana.bsky.social · 4d

getting to do one of these hehe

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it.

(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

www.nytimes.com

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Alexandra Orlando @alexgorlando.bsky.social · 5d

See also: Caves of Qud. Localization is a research challenge and we have academics working on it as we speak. But these efforts are something game awards will never be able to capture.

Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 5d

I've wanted to break this down for a bit: Wrote about a big quirk in how Game Awards is structured that makes it tough for small games to compete at a top level. Localization matters! And it creates a tough battle for the Blue Princes and 1000xResists of the world. www.polygon.com/blue-prince-...

In the GOTY race, localization really matters — which is bad news for Blue Prince

One of the year's best games will have a tough time breaking into The Game Awards

www.polygon.com

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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 5d

A gray and a tan bunny lie on a blanket, gazing at a scenic sunset over hills.

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Thomas BIDAUX 🔜 Gstar @icotom.icopartners.com · 6d

@senetmagazine.bsky.social is great

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 7d

Like our fast vulnerability turn around time?

what if... you voted for us in this years Golden Joystick Awards?!

www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoysti...

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