Inside Number 9. I don’t hear much talk about it, but for me, it’s up there with Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, etc. for a series of short stories with twists.

Halifax is one of the cheapest places globally to rent office space and employ talented software developers with a CS degree. I am skeptical that it was on the chopping block before now.

Original: The layoffs across the video game industry are getting started early in 2026. Ubisoft has announced the closure of Ubisoft Halifax.

The closure will see 71 people lose their jobs.

The news of the studio’s shutdown comes just days after it was announced that 61 of the studio’s employees joined the Game & Media Workers Guild of Canada, Local 30111. The certification for the union came on December 18, 2025, and was branded as the Ubisoft Workers of Canada, Halifax.

In a statement, Ubisoft says that decision comes after two years of “company-wide actions to streamline operations”.

“Over the past 24 months, Ubisoft has undertaken company-wide actions to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and reduce costs,” the company said. “As part of this, Ubisoft has made the difficult decision to close its Halifax studio. 71 positions will be affected.

“We are committed to supporting all impacted team members during this transition with resources, including comprehensive severance packages and additional career assistance.”

The decision, Ubisoft claims, was made “well before” the staff unionized. Ubisoft added that it respected its employees right to join a union. Insider Gaming has reached out for a statement from members of the Union. Should that be received, it will be added to this story.

Prior to its closure, Ubisoft Halifax was working on mobile games for Rainbow Six and Assassin’s Creed.

New extension blocks add support for static extension methods, and static and instance extension properties.

Big C#14 addition I’ve been wanting since they added extension methods. I think this finally lets us create stateful mixins, and solve some niche use-cases where multiple-inheritance would really be preferable over composition.

I’m about 90 hours into Silksong. Before that, it was hollow knight.

Until now, I’d never played metroidvanias or souslikes - mostly idle games, FPS’ and RPGs. I might get more into them now. I’ve been eyeing animal well.

My bad. A few years ago I looked at getting Tile for my Dad and decided not to when it mentioned a recurring subscription. I didn’t realise it had a decent free. I also assumed Apple would be even worse for rent-seeking because, well, it’s usually a safe assumption. My bad for assuming so much!

Honest question: why cross post to two communities on the same instance. Isn’t this just splitting the comments without really inceasing exposure?

Is there any variation of these that doesn’t require a subscription? Even if it means it only works around th house (e.g. on wifi)?

This is the sort of thing that causes people to lose whatever faith they may have had in the justice system and start taking it into their own hands.

They could have easily implemented autosave and versioning on your local machine. They chose to gate it behind keeping your documents in the cloud for profit-motivated reasons.

Here’s a few words for their post that you can borrow: whataboutism, propaganda, tu quoque, bad faith.

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That dissonance has a name! Gell-Mann amnesia. You aren’t alone.

I would gladly have you leech 5000 songs off me in Soulseek if it meant Spotify was losing a customer.

I just recently learned that Mother Mother released “Hayloft II” in 2022, 14 years after the banger “Hayloft”

Plot twist: OP would not stop talking throughout the show and them ruining the finale was the last straw.

I wonder what China’s saying about Grok right now.

What the hell does this say

Performance evaluation time

Agreed, but I don’t always trust myself not to have clicked through something like this on autopilot and make the wrong choice.

This post had me wanting to double-check I’d opted out (I had).