SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average. This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything. Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

me: i deserve a 50% raise boss: you gonna be 50% more valuable? me: no i plan on doing the same things as before and hint at maybe doing more of that stuff but give no evidence what that means and I’ll do two things no asked for. do we have a deal? boss: get out of my office

gamepass subscribers: 37 million monthly revenue: ~555 million 2 month boycott: ~1.11 billion loss collectively we have more than a voice.

me: i deserve a 50% raise boss: you gonna be 50% more valuable? me: no i plan on doing the same things as before and hint at maybe doing more of that stuff but give no evidence what that means and I’ll do two things no asked for. do we have a deal? boss: get out of my office

On today’s stream, we’re talking Microsoft’s deal-breaking Game Pass price hike, EA’s sale to a consortium that includes Saudi Arabia, and how both these things are symptoms of an industry being sold for parts. Also, time permitting: Baby Steps. We go live at 4 PM ET twitch.tv/aftermathdot...

Choice made

sharing receipts. I hope you do too. Too many people have lost their jobs, their passion project cancelled while Xbox leadership maintains their multimillion dollar salaries and passes their mistakes onto the consumer.

shocking that corporation that spent years saying we're not like other corporations is *checks notes* exactly like every other corporation. Vote with your wallet and cancel gamepass. Signed, Former life long fan

Ben was one of my primary mentors at GI, and is a great leader, an even better writer, and an all around awesome and hilarious guy. Hire him!

Have you subscribed to Pew Pew Bang yet? Have you listened to Season 2? Have you helped spread the word about @pewpewbang.bsky.social to fem-leaning folks in your life? Then thank you! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

HBO: a least we lead the market in dumbest rebrand MSNBC: hol my beeeerrr…

2015 v 2025

“This decision comes with all senior leadership taking massive pay cuts from our massive salaries.” Oh wait. Nope. Fuck accountability and shared humanity. Let’s just make the numbers go up for shareholders. I hate it here.

1 million seconds is ~11 days 1 billion seconds is ~31 years This post is the wealth gap.

I’m fine

Bucking the industry trend of post-launch layoffs, Lies of P devs received $7,500 bonuses, Switch 2s aftermath.site/lies-of-p-over...

If you see this, quote it with your favorite Star Wars scene.

when I was a baby, I worked prenatally to afford to buy my own basket. ugh, this generation is just looking for handouts.

love when people ask “how are you” there’s an implied besides of course our country’s fisher-price ‘my first flirt with authoritarianism’

Hard to get stoked rn, but this hyped me up. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

This is who runs this account

Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 10 Steam codes for Little Nightmares 3 (including free copy of LN1 Enhanced Edition) courtesy of @gamesplanet.bsky.social. Giveaway ends July 1, 6 PM PT. Little Nightmares 3 w/ LN1 Enhanced is $33.99 on Gamesplanet buff.ly/9a4pcV3

Jumping on to share this. This is a mass protest happening WORLDWIDE, not just in the US. Let’s get really loud this weekend. Stay hydrated. Cover tattoos. Stand together. 🫶

Wrote about SGF, ICE, and covering the event as first-generation US born person.

Desperate fans* to Xbox today *me

Okay. Anyone wanna take bets on: 1. Is RE9 at SGF? 2. Is RE9 going to be an FPS or go back to 3rd Person? 3. Does a list of 3 get more engagement? 4. Did I ruin it by adding a fourth? 5. I'll totally, for sure, be fine if nobody interacts with this post. 6. Technically, this is now two lists of 3.

stop 🛑 ive been hurt before.

WTF is happening! BLACK PANTHER wasn't viable enough as a franchise IP that you cancel the game and close the studio?! lemme say again if BLACK PANTHER can't sell enough as a AAA game, then what are we even doing?!

This is the best thing I’ve seen today and I need a source. Bluesky, please help. Credit to whoever this rad group is.

this might be the best video game podcast

I'm so confident Pew Pew Bang could have like 5 million followers if the right people were exposed to it. Do you have people in your life who love games but hate listening to a bunch of dudes talk about them? Show them Pew Pew Bang!! It's the podcast that's also a slumber party!

anyway here's the email I sent to jim bankoff last week. i'm still heartbroken. I have been insanely, destructively angry for weeks, and I think I will be for a long time.

Every video featured in this, save for one, is still available on YouTube, yet the video featuring the harassment campaign the platform has allowed fo fester for over a year was removed.

hating me gets them views here’s my story today 5pm ET // 2pm PT youtu.be/V4cB_g3U-iQ?...

me after finishing grad school last week.

Idt anyone should look down on undocumented people. Least of all people who were born in America. You were born into something people have to bust their ass for and you’re mad the people busting their ass haven’t gotten papers yet?

Giant Bomb is now independent "Giant Bomb has new owners, and you're looking at them" - Jeff Grubb

Me trying to not like and comment on all my moot’s posts even though they don’t apply to me at all and I don’t know what they are taking about.

God dammit, @suriel.bsky.social deserves better. A man of many talents, check him out if you're hiring.

finally. someone is addressing the real issues.

Hi my name is Ana! ✍🏼 I worked as a service writer and culture reporter for Polygon for several years and was among the many journalists laid off at Polygon following its sale to Valnet. I am now open to work opportunities and am available to contact at: [email protected].

See a tattoo, post a tattoo

See a tattoo, post a tattoo Lmao my bear is such a vibe

I’m not crying, you’re crying. my laptop broke last week and out of nowhere my parent-in-laws sent me a brand new macbook. in shock.

Turns out shareholder or the market don’t take care of people. People take care of people. The system is broken and greed is at the center.

🚨Filming has now begun on ‘Ahsoka’ Season 2!🚨 #starwars #TheMandalorian #ahsoka  #grogu #dindjarin #fennec #bobafett #bokatan #TheMandalorianandGrogu

Here's my top 10 games, or games to know me by. Final Fantasy VI (I like the whole series) CV SOTN Skyrim Mario World Secret of Mana Super Metroid Mass Effect 2 Chrono Trigger/Cross Sonic 2 Borderlands 2 First few stay the same, the others can alternate and change sometimes.

What level of capitalism do you have? Me: I thought this was someone’s calendar and thought, yup.