(trying and failing not to make this about me) I'm not really a journalist but I am on a gaming podcast called VGBees. I cover indies from my perspective with no particular timeline or timeliness, we discuss gaming news across the board, and we have a damn good time making fun of executives

I can't believe my edit of DA2 trailer to Britney Spears Toxic was 7 years ago already damn This is still all I can think of when I listen to the song lmao #da2 #dragonage www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OUw...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Just saying. If we all tell them to eat gravel, who do they think is gonna make their vanity projects? They’re betting on AI but we all know that’s just delusion.

“Don’t post publicly about Geoff or you’ll be blacklisted from the industry.” Listen I truly understand why anyone would say that, but being an old man who lived through gamergate and was told by my superior to STFU about it online and refused to: I’m still here and making games.

Hey #Seattle if you’re around the waterfront and looking for delicious unusual food may I recommend INDNON, an India x Lebanese fusion bistro that is making some of the tastiest food I’ve had in a minute!! Try my favorite: the Vada Pav sandwich if you like spiced potato :3 www.indnon.com

My heart goes out to everyone affected at Square Enix, Crystal Dynamics, and wherever else has been hit by these ongoing nightmares.

If this industry could stop laying people off for five fucking seconds, I swear...

The IWGB has just announced that 220 letters, signed by Rockstar staff, have now been delivered to leadership at the company, demanding the immediate reinstatement of their fired colleagues.

a single buck! we don't even get to do the boring "it's as much as a cup of coffee" comparison thing, because it's just a buck! read all the blogs, comment all you want, it's a good website!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong." Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror" www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...

this quote is #jayvik to me

They really don't seem to care. They're making a bunch of money tearing up the boards & seem wholly unconcerned with the fact that the ships they're on are rapidly coming apart. Like, eventually they'll take too much out & the ships go down but they aren't planning on going down with them.

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

we've raised $250 so far!! come hang

Been too angry to post brand-ly lately but here's one: AI? More like Ay, I'(m gonna kick your ass if you don't stop trying to sneak the world melting plagiarism machine into human art and expression!! If you weren't ashamed of yourself why do you keep hiding it? Why aren't you proud of yourself?hm)

The only reason we know anything about the Epstein files is because the survivors refused to give up. This release is about the the bravery & tenacity of the survivors who continue to fight for justice in a system seeking to crush, silence, and erase them.

Hey so, today is my last day at Crystal Dynamics apparently. I joined the company in 2018 to work on Marvel's Avengers and it's been the longest (and best) job I've ever had. It now means I'm looking for work, so if you know of any senior writer/narrative designer positions please send them my way.

Frodo & Sam ⭐️ by me

Every 40k fan knows more about 40k then they want to. Once your core memories have been replaced by factoids about spacemarine chapters noone plays you will understand

Wait hold up TWO games I’ve worked on are nominees? 😭 Spirit Swap in the Black Voice in Gaming category (this one‘s for @maximumcrash.com and every Black team member who touched this game and made it so special!) Wanderstop in the Emotional Impact category HEY TEAM IVY ROAD LOOK AT YOU BABY 🫶🏼💕💕💕

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

It’s a mirror of the national discourse about how progressives have gone too far, Harris was too woke etc. A corrective to liberal excesses that never happened.

Seattle has had a series of mayors who got elected promising to “finally” use police to crack down on homelessness — the existing policy that every previous mayor has deployed. Once they get into office they don’t deliver because it doesn’t work. We waste four years and the problem gets worse.

It is very weird when US media does not report on the safety concerns, which are top of the list for Canadians I know. Yeah we are also pissed off but we've been pissed off since January, the decline was not gonna keep declining based purely on "elbows up."

When identity thieves destroyed our credit rating, it was the CFPB who fixed it, which is why we now own the house that we live in.

If anything, the writers wrote too well. Punctuation where it is meant to be, capital letters arrayed properly, and sentences whole and intact rather than fragmented throughout.

Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it

he disrupted and in many cases DESTROYED hundreds of peoples lives over a personal grudge. getting his money would be him getting off lightly. typing the punishment I would LIKE him to receive would get me banned from this website.

i think peter thiel should have his fortune stripped on the way to prison and everyone who worked at gawker in 2014-16 should get $100 million

Fangamer is hiring a 🚨 Product Designer 🚨 very rare posting for a very cool job, RT's appreciated~ www.fangamer.com/pages/job-li...

Glad to see Polygon cover the resistance of game developers to generative AI--and to be able to speak briefly to one of the greatest dangers of this entire thing. Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.* www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

look ma we're in da news

You’re all panicking about all these weirdo corporate words but I’ve never been fucking happier than I have been these last few weeks digging in to documentation and processes at work.

I don’t care if pope John Paul the second is in there…. GO to jail and go to Hell!

Houdini and Cookie fostered in LA! All their siblings are doing great at their new homes. KittenRescue.org to adopt!

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Strand-Based Hair And Fur Rendering In Indiana Jones and The Great Circle" by Sergei Kulikov from MachineGames is now online: youtu.be/jSE1XXBEK-w

Proud to be part of this amazing tribute to HR GIGER by @spiridude.com and In official collaboration with the HR Giger Estate! 240 pages and over 100 artists! The kickstarter campaign just started so you guys know what to do 🙂 www.kickstarter.com/projects/spi...

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

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Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported. www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

If baristas have to walk out, we’ll walk with them — straight past Starbucks. Workers are fighting for fair pay, fair hours, and an end to union busting. Stand in solidarity: don't buy Starbucks if baristas go on strike! Sign the pledge: seiu.co/NoContract

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

It's a high time for the direct market, but non-licensed comics — i.e. creator-owned + other original comics — are going through a "wildly unpredictable" period. In this week's feature, I talked to creators about navigating this uncertain time, what's fueling it, and how it's affecting their plans.

And again I say it: stop loving politicians and celebrities and Supreme Court justices and start loving your actual values. And if the ppl you revere don’t share those values? Then maybe, baby, they aren’t worthy of your reverence

Anyone in those files has to go, it doesn’t matter if they’re the president of kissing adorable puppies, they need to be booted out of the party and the government, and prosecuted.