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Beloved indie game showcase Day of the Devs is striking out on its own. The Double Fine-run event that marked a new era in indie game marketing will now be organized by a standalone nonprofit organization by the same name in a shift that separates it from any affiliation with Microsoft, which acquired Double Fine in 2019.

Day of the Devs announced the move alongside a fundraising campaign intended to raise money for operating its multiple events. It's also confirmed that its San Francisco event is moving to March 17 from its previous date in November, with a fan-driven event at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on March 18. It will continue to showcase games alongside Geoff Keighley's bi-annual events; Summer Game Fest in June and The Game Awards in December.

Speaking to Game Developer, Day of the Devs head curator Greg Rice explained that shifting to a not-for-profit model allows the event to formally embrace the informal nonprofit model it's had since its inception. "It makes it easier for our fundraising [efforts] to be more transparent and open up new routes of fundraising for us," Rice said.

Read the full discussion over at Game Developer.

You can donate to the Forbes Union walkout fund here—Forbes is allowed to withhold pay from those walking out.

Today is day three of the Forbes walkout, and one of the highlight demands of today from Forbes Union is an interesting one: editorial separation and standards. This is generally taken for granted and enforced in most of the news outlets you read—but Forbes is not like most of them.

As you may be aware, their website peddles quite a lot of stuff with absolutely no oversight from quite a lot of people with a financial interest in what they're peddling. This is an extremely direct consequence of the website's "contributor model", which is basically an independent contractor free-for-all. This model has also been noted as giving advertisers an uncritical editorial voice and has been criticized at length by journalistic outlets such as Nieman Lab. It's also a gigantic grift, although I'm sure you've picked up on this from the jump. Poynter noted in 2012 that the model was a huge boon for Forbes—it guarantees them a huge stream of content for cheap and turns the website into a content mill. They wrote then:

[...]few of the paid Forbes.com contributors can make a living there alone, and of course as independent contractors they have no health or retirement benefits

So, needless to say this is all a bit of a sore point for the handful of people actually employed at Forbes and not just independently contracted. And naturally most of them are subject to the same pressures and influences even when they work on the "more reputable" physical magazine side of the outlet. The lack of integrity obviously does not stop at the bounds of the website, it's just worse there than in print. But print is still a problem: the (apparent lack of) editorial independence writers have on the print side of Forbes has been raised as early and as publicly as 2017 in The Washington Post.

It's an open question of how much Forbes Union can fix this problem—particularly given how financially beneficial it presumably is to Forbes—but it is an important matter to be addressed. In blunt terms, editorial independence is a necessary component for journalism to not just be stenography for the worst people in the world.

You're alone in your room.
It's dark, the screen casting a gentle glow on your face.
The air vents whisper in the background.

So neat to once again watch "the ability to see one another's teeth" being valued over being in community with neurodiverse and disabled people

There is little that makes me feel more like a separate species than seeing everyone nod in agreement at "oh it's so lovely to see one another's faces again" like what are you talking about

Truly the level of meaning and value that NTs ascribe to the lower half of the face is baffling to me. “All the thousands of signals that allow us to truly connect with one another” yeah I have no idea what you’re talking about. NTs being able to see my face only results in them being weirdly hostile to me because my face doesn’t move correctly for them. I do not feel like seeing their teeth tells me anything about how they truly feel. How is this more valuable than 1 in 5 people being able to safely exist in the space at all instead of being totally isolated from society and forced to live on the edges, the margins.