happy pride month

Want to learn about some recently-released-but-overlooked games?? I'm happy to announce that the Unearthed Treasure Room showcase is coming back for Part 2!! Right before Summer Game Fest, we'll be premiering the showcase on... June 3rd at 4 PM Pacific (12 AM BST), on Youtube!!

This is silly but it brings me so much joy to just like, do boring, normal things with my friends. I love nothing more than to run errands and just share life with them. Being the person who they get groceries with or go to an appointment with makes me unreasonably happy.

What are the video game/nerdy podcasts with majority black voices? I got the Midnight Boys in rotation but looking for more

i wrote about motion capture, animation, and bodies in games for TEEN VOGUE! it's very excited to have a byline at a magazine that i've been reading since i was teen✨ www.teenvogue.com/story/why-ar...

No one told me the main thing about growing up is that as I get older, I'll really, really want to get a Shadow the Hedgehog tattoo

Imagine speedrunning or all the other creative ways to play this game without weapon degradation. It would simply not be as fun or as creative!

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We spoke with Undertale creator Toby Fox about the inefficient and laborious ongoing process of making Deltarune. gameinformer.com/2025/09/30/i...

Hi! My incredibly talented friend and games critic Renata Price (prev. Waypoint/Kotaku/Fanbyte, currently Crit Build) is looking for mock review/consulting work if you know anyone who might be interested! Reach out to ren(at)critbuild(dot)org if interested. Shares appreciated!

i am replaying Persona 5 Royal rn (i never beat it and only got like 60% way through) and i really love how long everything takes. it takes time to build relationships and build a support network. you need to work at everything, socializing, studying, and building up your crafts.

Russia has ruled a K-pop omegaverse fic to be illegal, sentencing its author to 18 months in a labor camp. So is it worth reading? Get the link I tracked down in today's @garbageday.email and decide for yourself! www.garbageday.email/p/everything...

It is 2026. it should be socially and professionally acceptable for me to use emojis in my cover letters. what are we doing here

What are people's favorite podcasts they listen to learn stuff? I need good recs to listen to as I knit and walk. >:) My favorite topics are history and anything related to ecology and animals. I feel like so many history podcasts have dubious sourcing and are directed at dudes, so...

One of my favorite pieces we’ve run in a long time!!!

It's cool to see my interview be aggregated by so many news sites and content creators. I believe in the value of original reporting and clearly it's important to cultivating a a more vibrant news ecosystem. As jaded I get with slop, there is still an audience and a strong desire for journalism.

I am super pleased to share this interview with Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone for @gameinformer.com. We touched a wide variety of topics in our convo but people should click through if they want to read his thoughts on (and criticisms of) of AI in the story. gameinformer.com/feature/2026...

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@jmrivera.bsky.social wrote about this ages ago and i think about it constantly kotaku.com/theres-a-lat...

I won't be satiated by my gaming setup until I can comfortably play Persona 5 Royal from the bathtub.

This might give someone hives but I've been writing pieces of flash fiction/poetry on my phone for over seven years. These pieces are scattered between my dairy entries and grocery lists. I think I will finally start the process of digging everything up and putting it into a real doc.

it felt trivial at times to be writing about video games at rikers, which is so notoriously dangerous for incarcerated people. still, play and, specifically, video games are a meaningful piece of the lives of the ~12 young men i met and played with at rikers. read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a...

Trying something new today - reporting available to all, then deeper analysis behind a paywall:

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wrote about Dosa Divas, a game i'm really enjoying, which is yes a diaspora story but also a story about the commodification of food and culture aftermath.site/dosa-divas-o...

I question if I'll be able to stay every single day. I honestly don't think I'll be able to. I bring years of experience to my work. I ran a successful Nintendo blog as a teenager back in 2009. I worked as staff at Polygon. I was among the first freelancers to contribute games coverage to NPR.

My husband was laid off and we’re kind of at a loss right now. If anyone has any leads on PR jobs, please reach out to him.

Possibly the most important piece of my career. Many thanks to Mothership for giving me the time and space to have a crack at this crucial topic.

i'm working on a larger story about the state of video codecs in games based on this interview, would love to get as much input as possible from devs about the problems it causes (bonus points if a video editor can share their perspective on this, too). diego6arguello6 at gmail and my DMs are open

this article from @mprnews.org is rad as hell: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0... (MN game dev forever!!!!!!)

i need everyone to know that i was talking about space aliens at a family meal this weekend and everyone looked at me like i completely hallucinated an entire childhood place and now i have this gem from leo

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Today, my fellow founding worker-owners and I are launching a subscription drive to @feedravenous.bsky.social. We are a group of experienced and award-winning food journalists here to publish thoughtful writing and incisive reporting from around the food world. www.weareravenous.com

A lot of my research into the history of play covers tensions around gambling and play. There’s a real history of people being more concerned about the aesthetic of gambling as “corrupting” compared to the design of it.

Lovely homepage ahead of the long weekend.

i got to work on something cool with someone nice today and that made me happy despite how hard life has been. people are awesome!!

Ok ngl this line made me cackle

The idea that something can "match your vision" perfectly in another language assumes that the original text itself is stable and singular. We know this isn't the case because all art is constantly reinterpreted by different people, cultures, and time periods all the time. goofy

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! If you like the work we do on Girl Mode, today is a great day to share us with a friend or support us via our ko-fi linktr.ee/girlmodepod

She wants to know if any of you have games on your phone

Hear how protesters anger toward Trump and ICE is boiling over at the No Kings rally. Zeteo was on the ground in St. Paul, Minnesota. More at zeteo.com!

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

i wrote about my rainbow pencil and getting back into art

these super low profile thumb braces are the reason i can play video games again and i did a lot of searching to find them. no provider recommended them to me for video games! none of them really knew what to do about gaming. i don't want to gatekeep! www.mothership.blog/a-thumb-brac...

Hey we’re recording a new episode tomorrow which means it’s time to write in with your problems. We love to give really good advice. tinyurl.com/279vuzrn

Welcome to Woke Week: aftermath.site/aftermath-site...

And in case there was any room for doubt, the Republican coauthor of KOSA explicitly said she expects and hopes the bill to make it harder for queer people to connect with each other and find out they're not alone (as Katelyn says she did here) www.them.us/story/kosa-s...

Installing ICE at airports is a grade a level stupid idea but it also advances the larger issue, which is a private, unaccountable army funded by and ideologically loyal to a dictator that spreads militaristic oppression to all forms of public life.