Really shortsighted, this. But it’s not surprising because the staff there are constantly trying to write quality stuff while management pushes ridiculous quotas and the bean counters involve themselves in editorial decisions. It’s why I left four years ago. Thought I could change things, couldn’t.

Valnet unfortunately let go of the entire TheGamer features team today alongside several other staff members. Many incredibly talented and hard working writers I've had the pleasure of working with over the past several years.

TheGamer is losing so much talent today, it breaks my heart. On a personal and professional level, I cannot put the loss into words. Everyone being laid off today is incredible and would be an asset to your team. They have jumped through more hoops than you can imagine. Hire them!

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

8% That's it. That's the number. That's the *maximum* amount of people needed who normally buy a product to stop buying the product for the company completely flip the direction of a choice they made within 3 days. 8% That's a very doable number. www.wsj.com/business/med...

COVER REVEAL: For the first time in Game Informer history, a Dragon Quest game is gracing our cover! We went to Tokyo to play Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, interview the team behind it, and dive deep into the history of this prolific RPG franchise. Subscribe today! gameinformer.com/cover-reveal...

A lot of interesting convos around the future of TwitchCon regarding safety, enviroment and how the community ecosystem functions I hope that Twitch is taking serious account on what people are sharing. Not just for quick fixes and a bandaid statement, but actual consideration for future evolution

The Darkness II is $1.49 on Steam buff.ly/lkr5tqU Deck playable

have a scored review, as a treat: www.ign.com/articles/pok...

The PS2 truly is the best console ever because it is constantly becoming more powerful. Each time we say something "looks like a PS2 game" we're talking about a game of a higher fidelity than the last. What the PS2 is capable of in 2025 is so far beyond what it was capable of in 2003. That's amazing

Beyond disappointed to learn that Arc Raiders, like The Finals before it, uses AI voice acting. So many iconic game voice work is little vendor greetings, and to farm that out to a machine is a hollow admission of a lack of care. I know a thousand actors who would have done better for buttons.

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

For anyone who wants the interview, the url is www.ndw.jp/nintendomuse...

So this is just legitimate ragebait. The context was specifically about expanding the Nintendo IPs and the Nintendo Museum where they can see and use old hardware. Here's the question and answer

Y’all have GOT to stop uncritically sharing Stealth’s posts without checking your sources! I can’t find a source for when and where Miyamoto supposedly said this or who translated it ANYWHERE and yet my timeline is flooded with takes on it.

There's a reason I posted this on LinkedIn on Friday

hell yeah, we're doing hopepunk, we're making star wars references, we're cringemaxxing caring about stuff is so uncool that it's cool again, get ready www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained. These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

My Tanzaburo Tojima cosplay I wore for Twitchcon yesterday!

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Whenever I see people talk about why the Pokémon franchise is or isn't evolving, I'm reminded of an interview I did with a former Nintendo of America employee. We were discussing the move to promote Gen 2, Gold/Silver, and all the merchandise that would be involved in that. It was revealing.

With the continuous rise of prices for games, systems, and tech, and as companies like Xbox announce further increases for services like Game Pass, some disabled individuals are choosing to forgo AAA gaming altogether. Read my latest Access Granted report here: accessgranted.ghost.io/as-prices-in...

My Pokemon Legends: Z-A review is live! I really enjoyed the combat and the new Megas, but the setting is a bit bland. www.gamespot.com/reviews/poke...

These and Crystal plus their remakes are some of my favorite games of all time! My older brothers did help me the first time I played Silver Version though 😅

Can confirm: Z-A is good (I keep staying up until 3 am to play and I LOVE sleeping)

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

🔥 NEW DROP! 🔥 All 4 completed Godzilla eras now have their own Matt Frank–designed Blu-ray cases! 4 signed sleeves + 4 matching cases Showa, Heisei, Millennium (8 discs each) Sony/Tri-Star (6 discs – Godzilla ’98 + The Series) Films not included.

So many people try to make their comics feel like they're moving cinematic. Ishinomori had that shit figured out decades ago.

Hey so I wrote a fun thing about how some older monsters inspired the digital ones we've come to know and love and how recently it has all come full circle. Only a week later than I planned! 😅 I self-edited so apologies if it's a bit clunky! errollmaaswriting.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...

Hey so I wrote a fun thing about how some older monsters inspired the digital ones we've come to know and love and how recently it has all come full circle. Only a week later than I planned! 😅 I self-edited so apologies if it's a bit clunky! errollmaaswriting.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

Vast, vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. Many can't leave the areas they're currently in. If trans survival/liberation are something one cares about, at all, that's the reality. So...🧵 (And no, this is not — in the main — about indviduals leaving the country).

I say this sincerely, Kamen Rider Ichigo is my hero. He means as much to me as Superman does to an apple pie loving 50s kid.

BookshopOrg is having an Anti-Prime Day sale--for the next 2 days, you get FREE SHIPPING on ALL orders! A great time to order manga, comics, & books from indie bookstores. Bonus: if you're feeling generous, you can use my portal link to shop to support me, too! bookshop.org/shop/AnimeNo...

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

Why do all these "punk" genres seem to forget that "punk" isn't a synonym for "alternative imaginings". Punk is about fighting back against the status quo in a system where oppression is normalized. And not just fighting back, but making some progress. Punk is fighting for a better tomorrow.

not that we need to rehash this conversation but the way valnet and gamurs devoured decades of industry legacy then hired a bunch of cheap labor they made no attempt to train in the basic ethics and protocol of this job needs to be studied

Today is the 25th anniversary of the release of Digimon: The Movie and y'all, when they talk about films that "couldn't be made today," THIS is it. A weird, funny and fascinating time capsule.

Please do extend the same support you vocally give your queer fanbase to your queer colleagues.

I made a visual guide for the 59 monster tamers (and Pokemon HOME) available on Switch. There may be more, but I haven't found them yet! The more people complain about modern Pokemon, the harder I work on building lists like this. Pokemon has rival games, on Pokemon's console. Play something else.

Context is everything. Sometimes you just hit at the right time to get that shine.

The internet is filled with people ‘doing their own research’ who are unable to understand what they’re reading

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

The BlackWarGreymon section of Digimon Adventure 02 is my ideal Digimon blend, because it's a lot of explosive boss battles interspersed with laser-shooting dragons saying things like "IF I AM A DIGITAL CREATION, DOES IT MEAN THAT THE PAIN I FEEL IN MY HEART ISN'T REAL?"

i don't do the whole "woah buddy it's my game of the year frontrunner" thing with my reviews, but this time i'm afraid the temptation is scraping at the door here's my digimon story time stranger review

Digimon Story: Time Stranger Reviews: Outerhaven- 10 GameGrin- 9.5 PCMag- 9 Shacknews- 9 TechRaptor- 9 Noisy Pixel- 9 But Why Tho- 9 Gamers Heroes- 8.5 Dtoid- 8.5 RPGFan- 8.5 SixthAxis- 8 IGN- 8 GameTyrant- 8 Siliconera- 8 RPGSite- 8 Combo Infinito- 7 Push Square- 6 TheGamer- 6 GameReactor- 5

I reviewed Digimon Story: Time Stranger for IGN! Really solid game, and probably the best Digimon game to date www.ign.com/articles/dig...