Hey game devs! Does your game have a cool parry mechanic? Want to talk to me about it? Hit me up please!

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Hey game devs! Does your game have a cool parry mechanic? Want to talk to me about it? Hit me up please!

Red Candle Games (Nine Sols/Devotion) released a new mysterious video with the name "The Dark Legacy of the Sun Tribe" with a "Come Help Find Treasure" message. This could be an ARG which leads to an hint for their next project. youtu.be/ynAl_k7AkVM?...

If you're overwhelmed by the amount of Gaza fundraisers flooding your TL just imagine how overwhelmed they are getting the 25th evacuation order while being starved to death and terrorized with bombs paid by our tax money. Choose 3 fundraisers and give $5 to each...even that can save lives. 🙏🏼

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Spoke to @junchgaming.bsky.social about the Play For Peace bundle, and a couple of game designers about why itch bundles have been such a crucial way for the industry to raise funds with their games and art

What gaming desk?????????????????????????????? Yeah ask the NYT who's writing about Pacman

@tier-review.com is the best!

Spoke to @junchgaming.bsky.social about the Play For Peace bundle, and a couple of game designers about why itch bundles have been such a crucial way for the industry to raise funds with their games and art

Honestly when in doubt just blame Valnet for everything

Maybe the problem is the "all-American upbringing"

my silksong review is up!!! thank you again to VGC for the opportunity 💜

For those who need a refresher on Fuentes, Kirk, and the Groyper wars, here are some excerpts from our book, Meme Wars:

Just headed over to Twitter for a bit to check out a bit and it's a fascist storm over there. Just people trying to get other people fired from their jobs - even doxxed, perhaps - because they weren't crying over HIM

Sweden pulling development aid & other support to Myanmar groups is really worrying. Many groups struggling after other major cuts. The impact will be disastrous on both humanitarian aid programmes & media & civil society groups. Will add to quoted post with more potential places to donate soon™️

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

I deeply appreciate Aftermath choosing the most appropriate and best photo of Charlie Bird, small face creepy smile and all

I loooove this project by @cyborgurl.bsky.social (and had been a fan of her work for a while). Would highly recommend reading her notes on why and how she condensed games like Diplomacy, AD&D: Tomb of Horrors, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord for her classes

Surreal to see world leaders sharing their condolences for a white supremacist but I guess that's the state of the world these days

oh look, it's September 🍂 so here's another roundup of gaming / tech / culture / related writing gigs i've spotted please share so our pals can find a crumb of gainful employment 💛

TTRPG devs who have contributed to this bundle, I would love to ask you a few questions on this! Hit me up here: [email protected]

I love media criticism and I think Kalie and @gracemachine.bsky.social are some of the best critics in he space right now, but I have one more thought, which is the institutionalization of criticism should exist outside of strict embargo windows

If you have any starter packs, lists etc for independent games media, would be very grateful if you add @rewinder.co.uk, please.

As we finish this first week in September I want to talk about my writing and ask for some help in keeping my blog going. I've been trying this summer to intentionally write things that could be useful for the months ahead the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/the-state-vi...

For Rascal, I chatted with @graycastlepress.com on the closure of Tiny Table Index, and its importance to small-scale TTRPGs

TTRPG devs who have contributed to this bundle, I would love to ask you a few questions on this! Hit me up here: [email protected]

Criticism is dying, for video games and all arts, and by foregoing reviews Silksong helps speed up the process, writes @gracemachine.bsky.social. www.endlessmode.com/article/silk...

Congrats to @junchgaming.bsky.social and @seagamesforgood.bsky.social for being featured on Aftermath for something so swell (and for sneaking the word "kampung" into the interview. truly, SEA represent)

I have a shit anecdote with this, but for one of my gigs working as an editor for an agency, one of my jobs was to localise technical Japanese case studies. I can't speak or understand Japanese, and had to use Google translate, but the agency no longer wants to hire translators to do the work

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If you like Rascal's whole deal, then you will definitely want to check out what the folks at @roguesite.bsky.social have built. More worker-owned, independent journalism intentionally removed from the algo dance and VC evil that killed their last jobs at Polygon. Congrats on the launch!

Glad to join the Rascal gang as a news writer!

Long read: For around one year, indie publisher Plus One Exp operated as a business unit within a shipping and warehousing company called Brandfox. They worked with Possum Creek Games, Stockholm Kartell, among others. It was disastrous for almost everyone involved. www.rascal.news/plus-one-exp...

The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.

Very sincerely, I wish to tell Shanmugam to eat ****

Excellent reporting from @edwinet.bsky.social for RPS. www.rockpapershotgun.com/a-culture-of...

Well the weekend is here #MilkTeaAlliance & here is the upcoming events for it You will have seen that Indonesia's have been protesting over the last few days. We see the sorrow & rage at the killing of Affan Kurniawan by police. We post some of their demands in solidarity #KeadilanUntickRaykyat /1

One of the best independent journalists ever, @wudan.bsky.social , wrote about how simulpitching - that is, shipping one pitch to multiple sites - is no longer taboo for freelancers, and that we should all do it thewriterscoop.substack.com/p/a-story-ab...

Just thinking about getting the Norco edition even though I don't have a PS5

As someone who used to write for Valnet's once-favored site (TheGamer), this is definitely true. There's a sense that Polygon is Valnet's respectability play, and when Valnet acquires another site, Polygon writers will eventually be paid $30 an article

A reminder to practice playing your instrument for 20 minutes everyday and be a Big nerd

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

Glad to be part of the prestigious Funland gang

My cat has really taken to sitting on my lap lately as I work

Endlessly grateful for the opportunity to look at Echoes of the End for PCGamesN, a game that truly renewed my strong dislike for parrying

Endlessly grateful for the opportunity to look at Echoes of the End for PCGamesN, a game that truly renewed my strong dislike for parrying

I wrote about Sword of the Sea, my second (third? who knows) favourite game of the year

I wrote about Sword of the Sea, my second (third? who knows) favourite game of the year