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Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom

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Game and Filmmaker | Creative Director/Founder @RapidEyeMovers.bsky.social | directed @csmashvrs.bsky.social, co-hosting Directional podcast | created The Last Worker & SKEW https://linktr.ee/jorgtittel

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Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · Oct 20

Welcome to Bluesky, game friends and lovers! It is so much nicer here.

I'm a game director and producer who released his three debut titles last year. Better late than never.

Look out for announcements from @rapideyemovers.bsky.social in the near future! ❤️

C-Smash VRS New Dimension now out on PS5 with Hybrid Multiplayer, allowing PS5+PS VR2 versus and co-op play!

The Last Worker, the acclaimed game with an all-star cast out on VR, consoles and PC

SKEW, named one of IGN's 10 Best Games on the Playdate handheld!

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Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 7m

At least Apple was being honest and destroying everyone and everything except themselves.

Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 10m

Someone needs to make a Cyberpunk demake using only these assets.

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 19m

just spotted that cyberpunk does doom-style sprites for distant cars and characters... amazing

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Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 36m

Old white men taking the world with them on the way out.

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 1h

How are video games being used as a frontier for information war? What are democracies doing to respond to the challenge? And how are organisations like NATO grappling with the problems?

Find out in this week's @vgim.bsky.social - videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/natos-vide...

NATO’s video game frontline, 09/10/2025

It’s all gone a bit John le Carré 🕵️

videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com

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Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely.

Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 1h

Miller’s leap from Fury Road’s practical visuals to Furiosa’s cheap (looking) VFX shows how the arts are in rapid cognitive decline.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 19h

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 3h

Wonderful. It’s Naked Gun for the Kojima era. Daft Stranding. :)

IGN @ign.com · 4h

Baby Steps, the literal walking simulator gone viral, has a special cutscene for those who tend to skip cutscenes... that's 28 minutes long.

Baby Steps Punishes Serial Cutscene Skippers With a 28-Minute Long Cutscene

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Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 11h

Why is the EGDF immediately jumping to the defence of free-to-play gambling, predatory microtransactions etc. which the EU is planning to regulate?

These casino mechanics have devalued games and subject our kids to the worst aspects of vulture capitalism.

www.egdf.eu/egdf-commiss...

EGDF: Commission’s Consumer Protection Plans Threaten the Games Industry

Commission’s Consumer Protection Plans Threaten the Games Industry The EU Commission’s ongoing consultation on the Digital Fairness Act is heading in a worrying direction. With the Commission…

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 23h

From 2018, Bezos sees his future.

Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown

Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security.

www.technologyreview.com

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Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 23h

Great to see you’ve been going from strength to strength!

Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 23h

Oh no, the right wing hate rags fear Polanski and his love army. Tough to decide what side to be on.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 23h

Alex, so good to see you on here (not sure how I only just followed you). Been a while!

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Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 1d

Fun!

Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 1d

Nazis always dreamt about a world in which “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art) would be replaced with aryan art.

Musk has put the AI in aryan and is now weaponising it against artists.

F*ck Nazis.

Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition guide from 1937. Notice “kunst” in scare quotes.

Fuck Nazis.

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 13d

Video below: “I am American. I am American.” A man pleads, “Ayúdame, ayúdame. Help me!”

Meanwhile, an ICE officer pulls a gun on innocent bystanders — in Hyattsville, MD. This is happening in America. Right now.

What are we doing about this? It MUST stop. @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 2d

"you are taking in the human centipede of content from the very end of the line" is such a good way of describing AI

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 2d

The new OS is laughably ugly.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 2d

Life goal: the Nobel committee is unable to reach prize winner Fred Ramsdell who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid. His field of work is “peripheral immune tolerance” - peripheral clearly not meaning a cellphone in this case.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

www.theguardian.com

Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 2d

Bloody disgrace.

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 2d

Funcom is closing Metal Hellsinger studio The Outsiders

www.gamesindustry.biz/funcom-is-cl...

Funcom is closing Metal Hellsinger studio The Outsiders

The Outsiders founder and creative director of Metal Hellsinger, David Goldfarb, has confirmed his studio has been shut…

www.gamesindustry.biz

Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 2d

Probably. :)

Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 2d

Not crediting artists is terrible, but I do recall Grant apologising for this rap.

Grant Kirkhope tweet in which apologises for his “bloody awful rap” in DK 64.

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Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 4d

This is too beautiful. Thank you @damienmcferran.bsky.social and @lostincult.co.uk!

C-Smash VRS New Dimension @csmashvrs.bsky.social · 4d

Honored to have a beautiful chapter dedicated to our game written by @damienmcferran.bsky.social in @lostincult.co.uk’s [lock-on] volume 006, now shipping. 🧡

(The first 400 buyers of the deluxe edition are also getting a C-Smash VRS EP with an exclusive variant cover, among other goodies.)

Chapter on C-Smash VRS called “Less But Better” by Damien McFerran in Lost in Cult’s [lock-on] Volume 006.

Goodies included with 006 deluxe edition:

Folded A3 Poster

Mars Attacks-style Alien Hominid trading cards

Castle Crashers papercrafts

Lil Gator Game pin badge

Frog Detective case files zine

The Invincible art print

Oxenfree poster

C-Smash VRS sticker

Citizen Sleeper art print

Planet of Lana stickers

a flat Yoshitaka Amano cover print

Alan Wake 2 poster

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Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 3d

Cory Doctorow’s article on Amazon’s enshittification also acts as a brilliant explainer of why today’s game distribution platforms, too, are no longer fit for purpose (and yet increasing in price).

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

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Jörg Tittel ⏭️ Gamescom @newjorg.bsky.social · 3d

Sweet!!!