Nice to chat with these hooligans again. Also nice to rediscover Mass Effect, sort of, and inflict knowledge of the Krogans on Nate.

Re. RPS freelance, I now have a budget for irregular (maybe 6-12 pieces a year) 2000-3000 wordish, more granular and specific reporting and investigative criticism that broaches a new topic or addresses a gap in knowledge regarding something familiar.

We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically: - Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already) - Dying Light: The Beast - Silent Hill f Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at [email protected]

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I'm looking to commission a freelancer with knowledge of the Russian games industry and preferably some ability to read/speak Russian. If that's you, my email is in my bio: www.rockpapershotgun.com/authors/edwi...

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain. Not this time. Not anymore.

EHRC now saying that not only should trans people be excluded from sex segregated spaces, but ALSO those matching birth sex: “A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from … service for their own biological sex …to prevent alarm or distress for other service users.” archive.ph/2025.08.07-2...

If you work at Microsoft and are participating in No Azure for Apartheid, I'd love to interview you as an anonymous source. My email is in my bio: www.rockpapershotgun.com/authors/edwin-evans-thirlwell

I wrote about Big GenAI and the scaresome poetics of generators, in what is also a "show of human disparity and ugliness straining against smooth synthesis". www.rockpapershotgun.com/we-need-to-r...

British? (ew) follow this one easy trick to access the sexual horny robot cum games of metal + flesh metalflesh.neocities.org

We're finally getting rid of the miserable old bastard, with his funny ideas about "not preordering" and being "honest about your feelings". www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-p...

Two million people are being threatened with forced starvation in #Palestine, as the US government continues to support ongoing ethnic-cleansing. We've created a list of on-the-ground mutual aid groups in #Gaza that you can support, amplify, and follow. itsgoingdown.org/your-guide-o...

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: In a dangerous evening escalation of the anti-porn war on the gaming industry, indie platform @itch.io has banned a number of NSFW titles and delisted thousands of others. Trans authors are caught in the crossfire. MasterCard, Visa, and anti-porn group Collective Shout drove the ban.

London mayor Sadiq Khan, one of the most powerful Labour politicians in the country, has called on the UK government to immediately recognise the Palestinian state.

VICE's owner Savage Ventures has requested the removal of my Collective Shout articles. This is due to concerns about the controversial subject matter—not journalistic complaints Effective immediately, I will no longer contribute to Waypoint. I suggest letting VICE's owner know if this upsets you

Hi! you can buy the ebook for Killing Our Gods on itch RIGHT NOW. It's a collection of essays on Christianity, religion, and video games! @dialacina.com wrote a introduction for it! It's good! graceinthemachine.itch.io/killing-our-...

"Betting that this time, hinging the future of our industry on massive, monopolistic tech giants will work out is the most Lucy with the football thing I can imagine." www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

After 12 years, I'm leaving RPS at the end of this month. This also brings to an end 8 years with Gamer Network, during which I was lucky enough to manage several websites, help with events like EGX, PAX and MCM under ReedPop, and more. Now it's time for someone else to lead RPS in a new phase.

There's a lot of talk about online publishing dying, as if it was an external thing outside our control. But really, we get the internet we work for. I want an internet with Unwinnable on it, and it will be here as long as I am. What do you want? You can subscribe here: unwinnable.com/subscribe/

Under the header of this specific e-petition,(if we get a debate, we can brief MPs to raise: -The PB ban / PB trial -Conversion practices ban -Cass report -Levy review -Sullivan review -GIC wait times -segregation on NHS wards -Withdrawal of GP/shared care petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... 2/

A good exploration of gen AI from the perspective of a Marx and Baudrillard-inspired political economy - "the knowledge worker is united with the manual worker: from both the use-value of their labour is... returned to them by capital as the property of capital" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Job automation rarely happens evenly or cleanly. Historically, much of its impact is felt through deskilling, as more tasks are handed over to a machine or program, or attrition, as employees who are laid off, quit, or retire, don’t get replaced or hired back." www.wired.com/story/ai-is-...

down with Whatever eev.ee/blog/2025/07...

Welcome to Endless Mode: infinite possibilities in games, anime, theme parks, and more. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

this year’s summer game fest took place against the backdrop of LA’s anti-ICE protests, which proved impossible to ignore. this forced a reckoning for many in attendance: what is the point of the show, and as american society crumbles, what is the point of games?

My feelings covering Summer Game Fest, in LA, as the daughter of a Mexican immigrant. pentopixels.com/article/summ...

You can send and receive app-free information about ICE raids here: www.stopice.net Donate to the developer of this service here: www.gofundme.com/f/stop-ice-r... know your civil rights: www.ilrc.org/resources/co...

The arrest of union leader David Huerta is galvanizing a new element—solidarity: “Right now, just in the last 14 hours, labor unions are joining together from far and wide, communities are reaching out in ways I’ve never seen,” Orr told me. “Something is different.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

it's that time again: i'm looking for work! my current main freelance gig at RPS is unfortunately likely coming to an end soon, so if anyone needs an on the ball news writer, you can count on me as always, open to PR roles and other forms of work too (and reposts appreciated as well)

Happy Pride! Uppercut is open to pitches again 😊🌈

hey folks! so i'm co-organizing a DIY game showcase stream called The Unearthed Treasure Room with @hantani.bsky.social this Thursday 7pm ET. we reached out to a bunch of people to talk about their favorite recent underappreciated games. we'll be co-streaming it on both of own youtube channels

here’s a small curation of games that exist outside the urge to be understood. “Digital art: I want to be confused. I don’t want to understand. I want to see something for the first time again. Rarely a game does that, and when it does it’s a precious thing.” www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/not...

Hi everyone! While I'm looking for game dev work, not dying of hunger would be cool, so if you have any leads in journalism, copywriting, proofreading or localisation, anything with words! doesn't have to be in games! please reach out at hetfeldmalindy [at] gmail [dot] com

Hi there, I know everyone is short of $$$ in an era of rapidly depleting freelance budgets, but I'm really in need of work, and would appreciate any writing, mock review or consultation opportunities whatsoever. Portfolio here: kheehoon.persona.co

domino club is simply the best dominoclub.itch.io/erostasis

From @bigflan.bsky.social's yuri lowell prints a gun to plundercore and plunderludics. I wrote an introduction to videoludic détournement for The Bunker magazine, with comments from @johnleeerg.bsky.social and the plunderludics working group (Mut, Gurn Group, @jwhop.bsky.social) [article in EN]

“To be grouped is to be a colony, a cloud, a flock, swarm, or cauldron. Language dances at the periphery of species, of weather systems, and fairy tales.” 🦇🦇🦇 I loved reading at Performance Revue on Saturday. Here’s a section of my bat frequency performance and the echolocation score written live🦇

""There is something arbitrary in the fact that the philosopher came to a stand here, took a retrospect... that he here laid his spade aside and did not dig any deeper—there is also something suspicious in it." ...every opinion is also a lurking-place, every word is also a mask." Nietzsche, BG&E

If you work or have worked for Microsoft, and would like to talk on or off the record about the BDS boycott and Microsoft's reported business links to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, my email is [email protected] www.rockpapershotgun.com/bds-calls-fo...

Ich bin ein doktor de la philosophique, pending minor corrections. Good job, me.

SO YOU'VE BEEN LAID OFF BY A VIDEO GAMES PUBLICATION (It's going to be okay! We've all been there!): Has your workplace been taken over by some sort of content farm fuckboi capitalist? It's time for a new career! A few thoughts from one who has been there many times over.

breaking (and very bad) news kotaku.com/polygon-sold...

If you're near London please join us on Saturday at 1pm Parliament Square. Other protests can be found here: whatthetrans.com/compilation-... If you can, please donate to the legal battle

After reporting the news, games media must now grapple with what the call to boycott Xbox means for us. I wrote about why we must and how we can orient games writing towards liberation. Games nor words alone will save us, but we can as individuals express solidarity and possibility in all we do.

Fundraiser’s at that difficult “it’s stuck” point and I’m just a little over halfway to what I need to pay for fixing the house up and not be mopping toilet up and having to slop out each day. I’m super knackered and desperate. www.gofundme.com/f/rob-and-fa...

Poet and programmer Allison Parrish teaches a class at NYU on divination as a "critical making/speculative design" practice - she and her students have put together a bibliography that runs from study of "hot hands" in basketball to Tarot decks that teach you GLSL shaders. eroft.decontextualize.com