Jeff Stewart

Really great advice for those working on a VISA (like me). Note: My role was not impacted by the recent Microsoft restructuring, I’m sharing this for those who may need it. 💚

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CDPR plan to release The Witcher 4, 5, and 6 within a six year period using Unreal Engine. Another RPG that did this in the past? Biowares Mass Effect. Those with a birth year that starts with a 19 may recall what BioWare accomplished with the original Mass Effect trilogy. 3 Mass Effect were built and shipped within one console generation, powered by Unreal Engine 3, and supported by a production pipeline that was battle tested. That trilogy became a model for narrative continuity in AAA games because each entry arrived quickly enough for players to stay attached to the characters, the world, and the evolving choices that defined the saga. CD Projekt Red looks to chsae a similar rhythm. By shifting to Unreal Engine 5, the studio is trying to avoid the technical complications that slowed development on Cyberpunk and to create a shared foundation for multiple teams working on overlapping projects. The Witcher 4 has already been in development for four years, and CDPR has said it will not release before 2027. This framing positions the trilogy plan not as a hype statement but as a structured production approach that depends on a common engine, shared assets, and predictable pipelines. If the studio hits its plan, players could receive a new Witcher entry every three years. For Mass Effect, players never drifted away from the experience, and each new game extended the momentum of the last. Systems improved without losing their identity, and the narrative carried emotional weight because it never disappeared from the cultural conversation. CD Projekt Red could be aiming for the same effect. A steady three year cycle would let the next Witcher saga evolve in a connected way while keeping fan investment high. CDPRs ambition places them directly alongside one of the most respected production feats in modern gaming history.

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Wow - I had no idea you could do 3D like in ComfyUI! I have serious got to spend some quality time with it. “This is a custom ComfyUI node that embeds a fully interactive 3D viewport directly inside your workflow. Load Mixamo FBX animations, scrub through them in real time, and bake out seven simultaneous control passes - Pose, Depth, Canny, Normal, Shaded, Alpha, and Textured - ready to pipe straight into ControlNet. No Blender round-trips. No external renderers….The 3D pipeline and the diffusion pipeline are collapsing into the same node graph. And honestly, that's exactly where this was always heading.”

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The Original Games Jobs Workbook, the resource that started ASGC, has now been updated to Version 22.0. We have also integrated all community additions - thank you for submitting them! Here is the link to the workbook: https://asgc.gg/category2 Resource #3, Original Workbook Tab A few key takeaways from this update.: The last time I published the workbook, we were tracking 13,369 open games roles. Today, that number stands at 13,342. This is a modest decline. The concentration across the top 5, top 10, top 25, and top 50 hiring companies continues to look healthy and broadly consistent with what we have seen over the last several years. What is more concerning is not the small change in total open roles, which naturally fluctuates over time and with seasonality, but the decline in the number of companies actively hiring. In the previous update, we had 956 companies with at least one open role. In this update, that number has dropped to 884. Historically, this figure has typically been above 1,000, which I view as a healthy baseline for diversity and resilience in hiring. Because overall role velocity still looks reasonably stable, I am not making any changes to my existing forecasts or job odds models at this time. That said, the drop to 884 hiring companies gives me a little concern and is under watch. This is the lowest figure we have seen in three years. This is particularly concerning when roles are highly concentrated, with roughly 30 percent in the top 5 companies, 40 percent in the top 10, and 54 percent in the top 25. In those conditions, financial challenges at just a handful of companies can cause a large number of open roles to disappear very quickly. I have also reserved the functional detail behind all this data for further analysis. Part two of our major biannual update will be a full geographic breakdown of where every open games role currently sits. That analysis will help us understand whether meaningful location shifts are underway. More to come soon.

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