I reviewed @necrosoftgames.com 's Demonschool for @shacknews.com, and I really dug it. It's gorgeous, charming, genuinely funny, and the combat system has the juice to keep you searching for the perfect turn. Also, there's a Gunsmith Cats reference. You love to see it. Wholly recommended.

Be aware of me too pls

AEW is so cool, man

Covered Where Winds Meet for MMORPG.com! It's a review in progress, but so far I'm not entirely hot, not entirely cold on it. It's trying a lot of things, and it's doing very few of them exceedingly well. www.mmorpg.com/reviews/wher...

Aside from having the greatest editor I've ever had in my entire career, Skybox also does essential work that you won't find elsewhere. Consider backing the Patreon!

Still looking for work! I've got ideas coming out of my ears, so hit me up!

It took eight hours but @dollblood.garden and I coached Derek through Roarke. Now the game begins twitch.tv/derbycityderek

We're up to GerardWay3 now. It's not going well. You know what would make this worth it? A donation to Norton Children's Hospital! www.extra-life.org/participants...

Derek got Goku and God and GerardWay2 and Beeftip and Eyebrow and Buttmonkey killed, so we have to start over Still playing to raise money for Norton Children's :D

I'm having a breakdown thinking about what we're going to do for Roark!

Hamazaki Has To Goh - where does Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio draw the line on casting, and why is it not at sexual assault? by @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social "it’s particularly insulting and disgusting for him to be cast in a series that has historically featured sex pests being (rightly) beat up" Read on:

do people really think reviewing a video game is the same thing as reviewing a refrigerator? Can we measure the objective qualities of a video game against other similar products? Can we do a price/value breakdown? Should every video game review reveal the same collected data?

This story is infinitely more important than GTA getting delayed. Don't let me catch you moaning about waiting longer for a video game if you're not mad about why it happened.

Hi, anybody got a job in games journalism?

VGC doesn't get the credit they deserve but half the news I write these days traces back to them, wonderful team

GET HIS ASS #AEWDynamite is LIVE on TBS and HBO Max

This week's digest features links to @nadiaoxford.bsky.social, @easbygames.bsky.social, @whilhorst.bsky.social, @patrickklepek.bsky.social, @mads.haus, and others. ⤵️

Looking for work! Do you want features on Pokémon Legends Z-A? Write-ups on the latest Warframe update? Kirby Air Raiders discussions? Coverage of Magic: The Gathering's new Avatar set? Or do you just want news, reviews, and guides? Whatever you want, I'm your gal! Contact me: [email protected]

Shout out to the Fortnite leaks server for not being evil about this like I suspect many other leakers and people who believe the game can do no wrong will be

Making my @rollingstone.com debut writing about Monolith's incredible F.E.A.R. and how the story's meaning has kind of gotten lost over the years. Alma isn't F.E.A.R.'s villain. Armacham and the people that made her are. She's as much a victim as anyone else, a spirit of vengeance made, not born.

God that took a while

Also with the Carpenter discussion!

Spoke to Masaaki Hayasaka about the Dragon Quest remakes and the legacy of the series!

Been playing Dragon Quest 1+2 HD2D Remake over the last few weeks. Only had a chance to beat the first game, but it's fantastic. Really feels great with the new QoL features, and is a brilliant update of a slice of history. Interview with producer Masaaki Hayasaka coming to @rollingstone.com soon!

Back at Skybox writing about how badly I think Supergiant fumbled the narrative of Hades 2 and how it defeats itself by trying to redeem an irredeemable villain

I reviewed Bounty Star for @ign.com. It is the most personal review I've written in a long time (maybe ever) and I'm very proud of it. It would mean a lot to me if you read it. Full disclosure: I talk about being suicidal for two years in the opening because I had to. This one hit me pretty hard.

Not to doompost but at this point what exactly did I go to university for I didn't study how to survive a dying industry, I studied journalism

I'm one of like six people who've watched it but Gen V Season 2 was good, show now on a run of "damn this is better than the main show" for two full seasons

This sucks, hire all of these people

This is objectively the funniest thing he'd ever said. "I'm like Neo from The Matrix. Charlie, not so much. But I'm awesome"

I am announcing that I am still in fact looking for work, hi

I am announcing that I am still in fact looking for work, hi

Ignore the fact that's Bray Wyatt, my editor don't got Internet

LIFEBAR 005 begins now!!! Starting with a hot take: What if @easbygames.bsky.social told you that MyGM Mode in WWE 2K25 was one of the best post COVID-era strategy games available???

Hey, don't shoot the messenger

The people who complain about From Software's difficulty levels have never played a SNES RPG, lemme tell you

The Vow of Rivals stuff in Hades 2 is basically entirely new bosses, it's wild

I think Magic: The Gathering is at an extremely bad place right now, and I think the recent Spider-Man set is a true low point. I went slightly wild in my @endlessmode.bsky.social column this week about it. Tune in for the phrase "suckling hogs" www.endlessmode.com/tabletop/mag...

I spent 31 of the last 40 or so hours getting home from Japan, but before I left, I previewed My Hero Academia: All's Justice for @ign.com. I enjoyed being in the world and doing hero stuff, even if that meant helping a little girl find her cat, because being a hero isn't just about punching people.

"If you make a video game in the west you lose your job"

before you say “well losing EA is no big loss” 1. shut the fuck up 2. people have families to feed 3. games such as hades only exist because the studio cofounders met while they were at EA. studios that make games you don’t like are still enormous institutions of gamedev experience and knowledge

The WORST thing about getting published by Devolver is that we had to get rid of this

Yeet.

The fact that Kaleb Horton died begging for work instead having a column at some hip legacy mag is such an indictment of this industry. People should have been begging to put him on payroll. But nope, we've reserved that space for Ezra Klein

If the "no politics in games" crowd could get a teeny bit vocal about the state of Saudi Arabia co-owning EA, cheers.

Bioware is about to officially be the first studio to ever retroactively patch out queer romances