Portal 2 turns 15 today. For @gamespot.com, I dug into why Valve’s comedy puzzler remains funny all these years later and why most video games still struggle to get comedy right. www.gamespot.com/articles/15-...

Guillermo del Toro Opinion on AI Teetering After Hearing it Called "Monstrous" Scoop by @funnelchest94.bsky.social www.hwoodtimes.com/scoops/guill...

For the first time since 2022, I’m over at @gamespot.com, discussing the 10th anniversary of Firewatch and hypothesizing about why games like this just don’t seem to break through anymore in the 2020s. www.gamespot.com/articles/fir...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I'll be updating my portfolio as I go, as well as creating more videos on YouTube and social media. Even if you just want to see a guy spout nonsense about games, come say hello. www.youtube.com/@hallafyre/v...

I got laid off from TheGamer today, along with the entire Features team (go give @epicswitzer.bsky.social and @hallafyre.bsky.social a follow!) Needless to say, I'm now looking for work. I'm open to roles in: -Journalism -PR -Copywriting -Copy editing -Games writing -Scriptwriting

AI art is the aesthetic of fascism

"Getting a truly strange setting in a first-person RPG is rare, and Cosmo D looks like he may be delivering one of the best..." @funnelchest94.bsky.social checks out Moves of The Diamond Hand over at @thegamerweb.bsky.social. www.thegamer.com/indie-rpg-mo...

Best of the 2020s so far

The biggest thing theaters could do to get more people going regularly would be offering childcare for parents while they watch their movie. Gyms and churches do it, and the cost of a sitter is the most frequent reason I see cited for why people in their 30s and 40s stop going.

Wrote about Todd Haynes’ incredible May December for TheGamer’s movie of the year nominations. In an exceptional film year, it was the work that hit me the hardest and made me think the longest.

Twitter removing headlines to “improve aesthetics” isn’t that big a surprise if you know that Elon did something similar with much higher stakes at Tesla factories, removing the color yellow and safety signage because he didn’t like how they looked.

Hope that the looming SAG-AFTRA video game performer strike is the beginning of these companies getting hammered by workers because this industry desperately needs it.

Top 5 is pretty solidly set, but the rest aren’t in any real order.

Update 2.0 is a game-changer, and Phantom Liberty is the perfect showcase for everything it improves. My review of Cyberpunk 2077's new, and only, expansion: www.thegamer.com/cyberpunk-20...

I regret to inform you that catching up with all of 2023’s great game releases is not getting any easier. Sea of Stars is a terrific modern riff on Chrono Trigger. www.thegamer.com/sea-of-stars...

This is my short film Coffee Breaks, a comedy about trying to enjoy the little things when the world is falling apart.

This is my short film Coffee Breaks, a comedy about trying to enjoy the little things when the world is falling apart.

Watch Asteroid City for the third time now that it’s on Peacock and it grows for me with each viewing. More and more moving the more I understand the machinations of the structure.

This is such a good look.