ROCKSTAR UPDATE: Keir Starmer was just asked about the Rockstar firings in Parliament today where he described the situation as "deeply concerning" and promised it would be looked into by government ministers. Not that a Starmer promise is worth much, mind.

Video game giant Rockstar has sacked more than 30 workers across the UK, including my constituents working at their Edinburgh office. I urged Ministers to support workers who have lost their jobs, and stop this from happening again.

Absolutely despicable.

Massive congratulations to everyone involved!!! 🎉🎉🎉 The first of many ✊

"Epic says that until the end of 2026, creators will earn 100% of the V-Bucks value from sales made in their islands, with this changing to 50% in 2027". Oof, sounds like we've got another Roblox-esque child labour exploitation machine on our hands 🙃

Last week, I presented part of my PhD research at the ILERA European Congress 2025, in a session on precarious work! Thanks to the organisers and fellow panellists for their lovely questions!

The trek to #ILERA European Congress at @durham-university.bsky.social begins!! 🚂

Please submit a paper, poster, or workshop proposal and come see us in Glasgow if you're interested! ❤️

Congratulations to Dan for being the first player to win a race of Reality Drift at the Glasgow Indie Games Festival!

Massive congratulations!! 🎉 I had such a fun time playing yesterday and wish @flxli227.bsky.social all the best with it!

If you work (or worked) in Scottish video games and would be willing to talk about your experiences, please get in touch! All interviews are anonymous and entirely voluntary. My DMs are open or feel free to email me at [email protected]

Super excited for the first day of DiGRA 🎮❤️

Very grateful for all the lovely people at this year’s @buiraonline.bsky.social conference!! I had a lovely few days and couldn’t have asked for a nicer environment to present a paper for the first time! See you next year! ❤️

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

Delighted to be presenting a poster about my @sgsss.bsky.social internship today! It was a real treat to get 3 months to nerd out about culture funding 🎭

Back in 2021, PMG reported on the unseen games industry crunch taking place at outsourcing studios in SE Asia. Since then, the companies we looked at have continued to work on some of the biggest games in the world, without any push to improve the conditions of the artists doing that work. (1/7)

Sony brings back original PlayStation boot screen with PS5 anniversary update

Death stranding was cool and all but now I wish all games would end by telling me how much water I ingested

The survey is now CLOSED 🛑 Thanks again to everyone who took part! I am looking forward to a good few months of poring over the data 📊 My DMs are open if you would also like to take part in an interview about your experiences some time in the future!

📢 *CLOSES TOMORROW* 📢 If you are a game worker in Scotland and haven't yet filled in the survey, please consider spending 5 minutes to share your thoughts 💭 #Scotland #GameDev uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Me researching a topic and talking to smart people: 😍🥰😍🥰 Me looking at the transcript and re-living how awkwardly I talk: 🤦🏻‍♀️💀🫠👻

Oh boy, let’s try another app that isn’t Twitter 😎