the problem is social media in general but really i do think we could probably try to stop eating our allies alive because we're scared

*what* www.ign.com/articles/new...

remember that we have something ✨ very interesting ✨ for you NEXT WEEK at the triple-i showcase, sisters!! get your predictions in now, we want to hear them 🤭

mom just left for Nicaragua (grandma is not doing well) and my heart hurts. it’s not lost on me that i’m about to do what she did so long ago: leaving home and her family behind for a better future. i’m so grateful to have had the best teacher for this upcoming chapter of my life.

unlocking my phone to look at this like a soldier pulling out a photo of his beloved wife to inspire him for the battle that lies ahead

developers are not forced to include diversity in their games. trust me: if they were, we’d see so much more of it. the truth is that a lot of us are just gay and not white, and everyone else who cares about the medium as an art form is tired of telling the same stories.

GAME GONE GOLD! Dosa Divas is past certification for Steam, Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox S/X and ready to launch on April 14th. ✨Wishlist Now!✨

We’re in a video game crash. You can’t look at 45K jobs lost, games in dev for 5-10 years shuttered in a week or a month, jacked prices on hardware to 30%+ vs launch, and component prices through the roof due to garbage SlopTech and tariffs and draw any different conclusion.

Eidos Montréal is announcing a reduction in its workforce (124 employees affected) and the departure of Head of Studio, David Anfossi www.linkedin.com/posts/eidosm...

Zero Parades Interview - ZA/UM writers discuss moving on from Disco Elysium, swapping literary genres, the intersection of role-playing & narrative, & comment on creative team changes: https://www.rpgsite.net/interview/19999-zero-parades-interview-zaum-writers-discuss-moving-on-from-disco-elysium

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

Finished Life is Strange: Reunion over the weekend and wrote far too many words about why I unfortunately hated it. A soulless mess that tries to be a sequel to both Double Exposure and the OG game and spectacularly fails at both. Honestly reminds me in the worst ways of The Rise of Skywalker. 🫠

have officially said goodbye to all my friends and finished my last weekend here. it’s wild how doing the right thing for yourself can hurt so much. heart hurty!!!!

better than dragon age origins in almost every single way and i'm so serious about that

More of you need to play Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, and it shows

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

people say they want narrative games to have a lot of choice but the bigger the choice the less it matters. if you can choose to kill a character then every other world state has to scope for a scenario where that char doesn't exist. even alive they can never meaningfully impact the story again

Longtime college friend of mine, Mike Prinke, was among those laid off at Epic Games: he has been fighting terminal brain cancer, and now he, his wife, and kid, have no income or health insurance. Sharing here in hopes it can reach the right people on their behalf. #epicgames

“finishing life is strange for the first time and realizing the majority of the fan base chose a relationship between two people over a whole fucking town” and i’ll do it again!!!

THIS LOOKS SO FUCKING GOOOOOOD i'm screaming... friday the 13th was a janky, beautiful mess of an asymmetrical horror game. still my favorite one. i cannot wait to play this www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPJ8...

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Disco Elysium and Paradise Killer are two VASTLY different games in art & vibes, and yet they're both detective games with themes of surviving under fascism, inside the colonial, capitalist machine, watching ppl be chewed up and spit out by it, and SOMEHOW they are also both extremely fucking funny

some weeks are just

For GamesRadar I wrote about why Cyberpunk is closer to the "ideal" of what an RPG is than The Witcher 3, and dug into why I think V is such a special character www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/cy...

mom suffered hemorrhagic shock after major internal bleeding and is now in sub-intensive care, but doctors are having a hard time treating the clot in her heart with the ongoing risk of internal bleeding. still no word on discharge. any shares appreciated ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

met with my favorite professor to say goodbye today 😭💖 he was my introduction to creative writing, and i sat in his classes not predicting where life would take me at all. he sent in my name for awards that i didn’t plan to apply to, but would later win, because i had no confidence.

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Wrote a piece on the rise of increasingly sophisticated photo modes, and chatted with the photo mode consultant - and several virtual photographers - on this trend. For the Verge:

i hope those who insisted price hikes wouldn’t be a big deal know better now. so many kids of color, in particular, won’t be able to afford this hobby. gaming was much more affordable when i was little. without that, i wouldn’t be here living my dream. let kids of color dream, man.

you can say many things about mass effect 3 (but not to me because it’s my favorite one so idgaf), but you can’t deny how good its multiplayer mode was. the best multiplayer component to a singleplayer game i fear

You need to remember the damage of bans like this isn't just the overt bigotry of the act itself, but a sustained effort to create a tapestry of lies/laws/myths all working together to paint the image that a trans person excelling or even just existing healthily in society is somehow unnatural.

sitting in traffic when a smart beautiful woman, w/an amazing personality, walks close by—about 5ft away. i lock my car doors out of respect

always very sad to see women in this industry who will do anything, even stepping on other women and refusing to collaborate with them, to survive

Check out 11 new minutes of exclusive gameplay from Grave Seasons, the upcoming narrative-driven farming sim...that's also part horror game. You'll farm, you'll romance, and you'll investigate to find out who in town is a supernatural serial killer. https://bit.ly/3PofNv7

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

the vet refused to give me gabapentin and yennefer (the cat) is refusing to eat the expensive CBD treats i bought her, so i have resigned myself to being the world’s most hated woman for 6 hours on the day i fly to vancouver

life is strange is so important to me that it made me discover my queerness, kickstarting a lifelong journey. i love it so much that my first tattoo is about life is strange. i had literally no idea that Reunion comes out tomorrow. make of that what you will.

Scarlet Hollow is currently 25% off! 📈 91 on Metacritic 📦 Trap yourself in a narrative puzzle box that some people get stuck in for hundreds of hours without any hope of leaving 💯 98% positive on Steam 😤 Ruin the lives of more people than you can count on one hand! 🐶 Talk to animals

Epic Games layoffs serve as a timely reminder that accountability is dead

To celebrate the AI bubble bursting, we are releasing WEDNESDAYS, a game made by humans, for FREE on iOs and Android TODAY. Links + more info below 👇

ty for any and all grace i’m given in the next few weeks because i keep crying over my international move and it’s not very couture!!!!! i’m so grateful to be doing it for so many reasons, but this is also one of the most painful things i’ve done in my life

Yeah, this is the insult to injury at this point. I've mentored, given personal recommendations, proofed resumes, and so forth. Not a single person I've done it for in the last two years, despite being wildly qualified for each available role, has gotten a new full time position.

i frequently think about a certain GDC report. the one which revealed that, at the highest level (people with 20+ years of XP), there were no latina respondents. this industry kept them out or drove them away before they stayed that long. it haunts me. i'm determined to help change that statistic.

hate how every depressing thing i write turns out to be evergreen www.theverge.com/column/89329...

what a goofy fucking quote man. like on top of thousands of people being laid off today, having their livelihoods destroyed, they have to read about it in a blog post with a line as embarrassing as this

Theater/opera person, here: this is likely due to "bleed," which is a phenomenon we're literally trained for. When acting (or in this case, role-playing) a character for a good while and there are intense situations (such as an RPG finale), the emotions of the character can literally become yours!

1000xResist surprised us in 2024 and developer Sunset Visitor is ready to show off its next game on April 9 during the Triple-I Showcase. bit.ly/40JS5Me

Just FOUR HOURS to go to back us on Kickstarter! ⚖️🌍🔥 www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

mom is back in the icu after a very scary day yesterday, which has set her recovery back. i posted a full update on the gfm and increased our goal by $10k. this is the scariest thing our family has ever experienced, and we are so thankful for all the support so far ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...