Asmongold believes movie critics are unfairly "creating consensus" in advance because that is what he is trying to do all the time. His whole schtick is negatively polarizing people about games before they ever come out

Poor guy. He seemed excited for the role.

We got GTA6 before a The Batman sequel

Going with daylight saving time is an attack on morning people (me)

I'm reeeeeally enjoying Black Flag and I think it solidified for me why it didn't click so much the first time. The changes they've made have really kept me in that world this time, enjoying the pirate fantasy.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced developer Ubisoft Barcelona has begun a strike to protest planned layoffs at the studio, just days after the remake's successful launch. gameinformer.com/2026/07/14/a...

everytime I see people, especially folks in games media, talk about game developers like they're draft picks I die a little inside

fun fact: i only learned months after I'd written it on the US site that this story nearly had kotaku uk (who had automatically republished it) blown into low orbit

Today launches the game I've been working on: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced It's been an incredible experience working with such hardworking,talented & amazing people and we are very glad that players are loving it Unfortunately my whole team is being laid off so we can't fully celebrate it

hardly the worst part of this, but an utterly needless shovelful of salt in the wound

I’m so tired of life being reporting about layoffs in the months between my own team’s layoffs

Lmao sick, I just got laid off from GameSpot while on paid medical leave recovering from a gunshot wound.

Yes, there were layoffs. Yes, I am safe. No, I am not doing well.

gonna be thinking for a bit about how PlayStation abandoning physical games inspires more politically charged language than layoffs, union busting, labor exploitation, or the BDS boycott ever did

Here’s a really fun one! The iconic armor worn by the Dragonborn in all the Skyrim key art was made by Lead Character Artist Christiane Meister. The Steel Sword (and a majority of weapons in Skyrim) were made by Senior/Lead Weapon Artist Dane Olds. Both were just laid off by Microsoft.

Fun fact! When you start a new game of Skyrim literally the first thing you see is art concepted by laid off concept artist Ray Lederer. (I made the in game art.) A slap in the face to every Elder Scrolls fan.

Ubisoft Barcelona lays off 51 employees on 'Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced' launch day. insider-gaming.com/assassins-cr...

No one riles up anti-intellectuals quite like Barrett Courtney

Imagine doing this to id and saying with a straight face "grow and extend an enduring portfolio of franchises players love"

this is the kind of thing you desperately throw together so that dumbasses who love BRANDS and will willfully ignore the fact that everyone working on this new game just lost 60 colleagues will go on twitter and be like "credit where credit is due"

Pattinson, Zendaya, and Tom Holland are having like a killer year for movie releases

Unfortunately, HR made our office manager take this down almost immediately. They said because it's in a common area, it had to be removed. We've used common areas for many things as a team, including fan works, but HR seems to believe that a Celebration of Service is inappropriate.

“You can’t fight for everything at once!” Okay, you fighting for anything though?

We gotta stop using “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism” as a shield to not do anything within our power to help create change from a working class level. It signals that you recognize the problem but don’t really care.

One way you can show Microsoft your concern is here through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

Got my NTBTS photobook. Kind of a wild inclusion of a certain ex Polygon employee in there.

Can we finally acknowledge that we're in an honest-to-god class war and start treating our politicians, bosses, companies, and celebrities accordingly? Endless waves of layoffs and ballooning prices justified by AI spend that nobody wants can't possibly be sustainable. Everything is dogshit now, man

KINDA FUNNY BEST FRIENDS TRYIN TO GO SEE THE KF TOP 100: hit me up. Let's coordinate some hang out times! Would love to see as many of y'all as possible!!! 💙🩵

Mind you, this would require Xbox to become about 8x more popular than YouTube

Will buy every Double Fine game on every platform I own once I know my money isn’t going to Microsoft 🫡

I believe at the end of the day it all boiles down to you simply can't buy or brute force culture as a big tech company..

"you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them""

I believe this means it will only have taken 834 days to go from starting to update the colours in the Gamescast intro to them actually showing up

Even now there's misinformation floating around, so let me make this clear: Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs, or 20% of the organization. 1,600 jobs will be eliminated today, and then another 1,600 (including the studio divestments) in the next 12 months. Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: Xbox will cut 3,200 jobs as part of a major reorganization, and divest from five studios: - Compulsion and Double Fine will go indie - Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will be sold - Arkane to enter consultation process Here's the full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My friend is playing Horizon Forbidden West and I got so bummed out when I remembered the third game is probably a ways off because of Hunters Gathering

Despite a report this morning, I can confirm that Obsidian is *not* in negotiations to avoid shutting down. Plenty of details are still up in the air surrounding the layoffs (picture will be clear on Monday) but Xbox is keeping Obsidian, according to people familiar with the situation.

Nah, it’s my day off. I’m out of here before my mood gets worsened.

Bloomberg confirms Xbox was funding Project Fantasy. Xbox is “taking a fresh look at where we invest so we’re focusing on our highest priorities “We're not reducing our overall investment in games. We expect to invest about the same in content as we did last year..."

Take your nostalgia aside, should I play Vice City? None of the games I grew up with have gotten remakes or sequels made decades later, but I kind of want to familiarize myself with VC so that when I see it in VI there's that extra layer of, oh neat.

I've been meaning to sell my Series X for about a year, and every day I wait it gets easier. I'm even gonna mention GTA6 in the listing.

One of those days where I'm like, maybe I don't need to listen to KFGD today. Maybe I listen to something where people talk about nice things.

BREAKING: Bungie studio head Justin Truman, who succeeded Pete Parsons last year, is stepping down, people familiar with the situation tell Bloomberg News.