The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.

This is brilliant. Like, vintage Colbert brilliant.

Everybody needs to watch this.

Tomorrow! MALEVOLA & COUPÉ ARE PLAYIN’ DISPATCH. Twitch.tv/charalanahzard

LIVE REACTING TO GAME AWARDS NOMS (and maybe starting second dispatch playthrough???) Twitch.tv/charalanahzard

@charalanahzard.bsky.social is joining Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 as the voice actor for Nyra Veyrath, the second playable character announced recently. Details inside: bit.ly/3JGNllD

dude

I’M SO EXCITED TO BE PLAYING A BATTLE SISTER AHHHH 😭

I did a lil writing on this game! Check it out!

🥹🥹🥹

This is a must see.The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi has been so skipped by the general reporting of the EA buyout (I don't recall any media other than Eurogamer.es talking about it, but might be wrong) that I almost gaslighted myself into thinking the man behind it was "another saudi prince".

As always, extremely well done and informative content from Alanah. Please watch this *and* take a stroll through her channel, you'll learn a ton.

Good shit. Unfortunately, games are now both profitable and culturally relevant enough to garner the attention of asshole CEOs, insatiable shareholders, and regimes in need of a little reputational laundering... 😔

Damned impressive breakdown of the EA/Saudi situation and why "keep politics out of games" is an ignorant, and maybe even dangerous position to take.

Me oh my, the wonderful @charalanahzard.bsky.social has a new video out and it is again, as always well researched and written and also again quite a brave open and detailed video about the EA purchase by the Saudi gov and others... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOzF... Watch, share etc...

Here’s my breakdown of EA’s pending sale… to Saudi Arabia… and why this is much, much bigger than video games. I’m late to this from a ‘news’ perspective obviously, but it’s because I worked on this video for about a month. youtu.be/yOzFyrRH_sw

Keep up.

Malevola and Sonar from Dispatch!! #dispatch #fanart #malevola #sonar @charalanahzard.bsky.social

Malevola giving Sonar chin scratches 🥹 #Dispatch

Folks who make video games! @officialgdc.bsky.social is running the annual State of the Industry survey again. You should take the chance to weigh in! The survey's gone through a major overhaul this year and your voice will matter even more: gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26

my only regret is that that Dick Cheney isn’t alive to be mad about this

THAT’S MY MAYOR!!! (i live in los angeles)

Realized I forgot to share this one! The latest PWL is about indie game marketing, and why you should make bad games. DO IT. (ft. @mikebithell.bsky.social & @charalanahzard.bsky.social) youtu.be/cFAihl5DNAc

So proud of this team ❤️.

liiiive! starting with DEAD TAKE then jumping between other horror games, HAPPY HALLOWEEN <3 twitch.tv/charalanahzard

Wow… shout out to @charalanahzard.bsky.social for this excellent video. Very well articulated and understandable explanation of everything we’re seeing in the gaming communities. “Stop watching and go play Blue Prince” is an excellent final statement. Great video. youtu.be/9HM9nmqNioQ?...

YOU CAN PLAY MALYS RIGHT NOW! 🙌 Our unholy roguelite has been released on Steam and you can play it! 🔥 Hunt down the wretched demon Malys and sock 'em in the kisser for me!!* 🥊 *'Sock 'em in the kisser' not an endorsed exorcism tactic...unless 👀 https://bit.ly/playmalys

📢 We're reopening creator keys requests for our older games! As part of our legacy games celebration, we've got fresh batches of Steam keys for several older titles. If you're a content creator who would like to showcase one of our games, details on how to get keys are below!

The people mad about this headline haven't seen @charalanahzard.bsky.social's video about how short-form content is gobbling up *most* of the free time that people used to spend on playing games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HM9...

I feel like this video by @charalanahzard.bsky.social comes up sooo regularly in conversation about games. So well researched and presented. Everyone needs to watch it. Or rewatch it! youtube.com/watch?v=9HM9...

@charalanahzard.bsky.social Dispatch is hilarious so far, wasn't expecting this success prompt and it got a laugh out of me 😂

LIVE playing the first two chapters of DISPATCH, a game I voice a lil character in! Twitch.tv/charalanahzard

This is one of my favourite podcasts I’ve ever recorded. We love to see good people succeeding 🥹❤️.

Fun fact: at some point several people’s names were patched OUT of Destiny 2’s credits. People who worked on that game and were credited accordingly, were, for some reason, subsequently removed. Video game credits are atrocious.

NEW! I’ve got some art in the brand-new game DISPATCH out TOMORROW on PS5 and Steam! Workplace comedy from @adhocstudio.com (ex-Telltale devs) where you assign superheroes to their missions! @aaronpaul.bsky.social & @laurabaileyvo.bsky.social headline the cast! My art is in the DELUXE EDITION🙂👍

BRRRR ITS COLD IN HERE THERE MUST BE - AN IMPENDING RELEASE OF A DEMONIC ROGUELITE - IN THE ATMOSPHERE 🔥 I SAID - Light your candles for warmth AND to banish your foes in Malys on October 24! https://bit.ly/playmalys

❤️. Fwiw my next YouTube video is about Saudi (in relation to EA) and it’s the longest YouTube video script I’ve ever written by a few thousand words, and I’m still not done 🤪. I was hoping to get it up much earlier but realized I needed to take a lot of time to be super thorough with this one.

5 MORE DAYS

I’m quite seriously concerned about the economic collapse that’ll come with the AI bubble popping, and I feel like this really illustrates why: so many headlines touting huge numbers and insane productivity for services there is absolutely no market for. Who wants 8,000 extra books a year?

I don’t believe this Ubisoft Civil War game everyone is talking about ever existed. I know Far Cry 5 was originally written to be much more political than it was and they scaled it back - with the way Ubisoft dev cycles work, I can’t imagine a game being cancelled over re-worked.

The episode of TV I recently directed is LIVE NOW! I loved working with this whole cast and crew, and would hire so many of these people again in a heartbeat ❤️. youtu.be/nj64TK45GhQ?...

I realized I’ve been sort of mourning the internet lately. It’s odd. This ‘place’ that used to contain a wealth of actually valuable information, and introduced me to many people I now call friends, and which paved the way for my career, has almost completely rotted away. It’s not coming back.

Matthew Mercer plays Shroud in Dispatch. See you October 22nd.

Similar to my Stop Killing Games video, I’d love to chat to game devs about their thoughts on GamePass. If you are a game dev, or know one who has Opinions On GamePass, and would be willing to share them with me (can be anonymous) please reply to this post!

Fucking up the algo always gets my thumbs-up. Well played, Alanah! Love trick 6!

honestly livid about having to endure the slow realization that hornet is a goddamn spider

Brilliant. Very well written and researched with satire that starts subtle and builds until it’s slapping you in the face.

i am going to be absolutely insufferable when Saros comes out

The best video about AI on the internet and it isn't getting 1/1000th of the attention it deserves.

This video is absolutely incredible. I truly don't hate generative AI enough. Alanah nails this, and this all just illustrates that using AI is fundamentally a way to outsource your humanity. #5 is genuinely new to me and deeply ghoulish. Just, fuckin hell, why does anyone want this shit?