Zero Parades was a miracle solely down to the talent and drive of those who worked on it; I did not expect Zaum management to understand or value this. But still a terrible shame.

All love and support to the developers who made Zero Parades happen. You can infer my feelings on those doing the layoffs in this space.

Are you a developer who has put a fishing minigame inside your non-fishing video game? Or are you considered a connoisseur of fishing minigames? OR do you have knowledge of how real-life fishing works and how it might translate to games? I would love to speak to you for a story please!

find your local rapid response network: icerr.com

120 MINUTES was an absolute oasis in pre-internet pop culture. So many bands that you could ONLY find there (TV-wise) became ubiquitous online later (and relatively recently). A pioneer. consequence.net/2026/07/dave...

REACTION SPEED - The houses, the streets, the motorways singing. Hold on. This is a fight we can *win*.

Assassin’s Creed set in the ‘80s college radio / indie rock / hardcore scene. Greg Ginn is a deep undercover Templar; Joe Carducci is an assassin who knows his secret.

Heated Rivalry double vinyl in office today. Didn’t know it would come with pinups and signed hologram playing cards but hell yeah hell yeah. Deadline Week off to the races.

Uhhh Beck just cryptically announced... something... called "In the Night," slated to drop tomorrow at 9am ET I assure you this is not coordinated marketing for @beckbook.com www.instagram.com/reel/DaxjDiA...

One of the most nerve-wracking, astonishing gaming feats I've seen performed live. Somehow makes Balatro into an actual gambling game and then, through sheer knowledge of the mechanics, forces the house to lose. youtu.be/A7Go7IXlYLg?...

Wrote about the unlikely bonding of Mel Brooks and David Lynch, who both saw themselves in The Elephant Man. My Criterion column this month: www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...

The sun is trying to kill us. I vote we strike back.

sad to not be at #sgdq rn, but still immensely proud of this piece about @gamesdonequick.com I published earlier this year. interviewed dozens of people in an effort to convey what makes the speedrunning community so unique compared to other video game communities aftermath.site/games-done-q...

Unexpected early hinge point in his story involving Overland Park KS so there’s that! The kind of good writing where, even though I’ve got a review copy, I’m still keeping my local pre-order on the books. Put this on your list…

so much of my phone is saved posts from @today-maybe.bsky.social and that is the only comment I’m making, it is regarding art appreciation and only art appreciation and I don’t even have a home address so don’t bother looking spookfellas.

Me and the boys digging a big old hole on the beach hooting and hollering and playing slapdick until about an hour into the job we all got real quiet. A job is what it in fact was now. Our job was hole and we worked at hole.

grabbing my limited edition Argentina red milk while I can and mixing it with my 250 Patriot Milk and my Netherlands pecan milk to make sarin gas(?)

shoulda poured this in the harbor

Nearly every mobile game I’ve ever worked on is gone, “sunsetted” rather than made playable on current OSes. Their titles mean nothing to recruiters and hiring managers, let alone players. Even if players remember them fondly, they couldn’t play them anymore if they wanted to.

jfc support your local newsrooms

I'm glad BTAS understood that Joker is most fun when he's deeply petty. His best stories are rarely "tries to destroy Gotham" but rather "gets mad that someone cut him off in traffic" or "wants to copyright fish" or "bombed during stand-up" or "a casino stole his likeness."

nah that ain’t words

This is such a great piece. I worked in record stores for a few years myself, and every bit of it rings true, including the part about looking for a job with fewer difficult people only to find that people, always and everywhere, are people.

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself” — William Faulkner

we’re so fucking back BAAAAAAAAAAAASAAASSSSDCCCKKKKKKKKKKSKSKKK

Happy Pride here's my game about the time my first girlfriend gaslit me into the hospital direkris.itch.io/displacer

You can’t run this headline every single day.

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

there won’t be another season of strip law and that sucks, but the silver lining is you can rewatch the existing episodes over and over and still find new things to laugh at— it’s on that level

♥️🗞️goodbye for now to @thebarbedwire.com — it’s been an honor, and any newsroom would be stupid not to hire @carakelly.bsky.social @briangaar.bsky.social @iamleslierangel.bsky.social and @candibolden.bsky.social

[taps the "the quality of a person's art has no relationship, direct or inverse, in either direction, to their quality as a person" sign again]

hey man is everything ok? I noticed your gritty, unflinching civil war drama—a masterpiece of action, acting, production design, and cinematography—had a discordantly lush synthpop soundtrack, recasting our nation’s greatest tragedy—and triumph—as something to simply dance or shop to

everything I see reminds me of him

whale IS important

bob odenkirk's 'neesons era' is fun but NORMAL was a delight because, as ben wheatley films go, this is Peak Wheat—funny, lowkey a horror film, every character has a lot going on; also includes a few plot choices this simply No One Else Would Make and i love it

[yelling over club music] I said death is the loss of future love

🔇📰💪⚖️

GTA 6 looks great

ok but they’re all the same headline

Anna murdering this again

I would love if we could make the audiobook of my novel a big success as a big fuck you to Unbound/Boundless

Not watching Eurovision obviously but remember the time we found out Harry Du Bois is alive and well and living in Croatia

it wasn't the moment Russ stepped inside. it was AFTER making him watch women's soccer and THEN Kirsten Dunst movie mania. the brand remains intact. next KC Current game will line up perfectly with Melancholia / Drop Dead Gorgeous / a few eps of How To Be A God.

hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

tront roznor

Hey guess what it is not mentioned in this CBS News coverage *at all* www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mik...

"rawdogging consciousness" is what i call it when i don't take my adhd meds

This is Baudrillard’s version of The Real, btw