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Season saving wins ✅ West Ham ✅ Vikings We are so back

hi all, the awaited day has come: I'm looking for freelance writers to pitch Inverse Gaming for end-of-year coverage! namely, I'm looking for someone to contribute our best of RPGs this year list ($350), and pitch us on some year-end lookback essays ($500+). please pitch me: [email protected]

Job update time! Today was my first day as Larian Studios' new Storytelling Lead! It's wild to be back in an office fulltime for the first time in more than a decade -- and in another country to boot -- but it's wonderful to find community so far from home.

New job starting TOMORROW 👀

The NES's 40th anniversary today can mean only one thing... SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION youtu.be/MiqZoD3t5h4 Come see me talk about this stuff at PRGE in about an hour and a half!

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...

If you're taking to the streets to protest today, know your rights.

you ever just start writing about something video game related and eventually realise you're just straight up doing investigative journalism

Somewhat lost in the news today: Paul Williams has passed away. You might not know his name but he was instrumental in the arcade world, working at Sega for decades, from Sega World UK in the 90s to leading Sega Amusements International - the arcade arm. www.amusementnetwork.co.uk/n/n578/paul-...

Itagaki was legendary in the games press for being confrontational as hell, in the dead or alive/ninja gaiden 1 and 2 era he was always good for a wild quote, which English speaking audiences didn’t often get from Japanese devs. Kind of an asshole rockstar persona, another rare thing in games.

Tomonobu Itagaki (creator of Ninja Gaiden 2004, Dead or Alive) has passed away according to his Facebook

It was an honor to be interviewed by the brilliant @simonparkin.bsky.social on one of my favorite podcasts. (and just ignore my opinion on Goldeneye, my equivalent of a a negative Steam review that opens with “8,000 hours played”)

You may have 7 days before Sadako claims your soul but only 2 days to vote for what movie we cover in our Scary Movie Side Quest! - Shaun of the Dead - Jennifer's Body - The Gate - The Ring - Otogirisou/St. John's Wort Vote now! More deets in the alt! www.patreon.com/posts/side-q...

A whirlwind #NYCC dispatch from the newsletter, feat: ✨how @stephwilliams.bsky.social and @pnemiroff.bsky.social saved my smol creator bacon ✨micro reviews of Death Becomes Her and Kavalier & Clay ✨an exploration of condrop and creative fulfillment ✨Act I: Panic, Act II: gig offers, Act III: Panic

I love having access to actual trains

New resurrected podcast feeds, and it's a special RPG drop in honour of @katbailey.bsky.social! 1UP's Active Time Babble and GamePro's Roleplayers' Realm can once again be added to your podcast apps: savestate.site/podcasts/ (Their successor, @bloodgodpod.bsky.social, is essential listening!)

OPPORTUNITY Lead Writer - CDProjekt - US Not affiliated. Shares welcome jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED...

Hello! The Guardian is expanding our American soccer coverage. In the US, we're hiring: • Reporters • Asst. editor • Audience editor • Social video producer • Sports biz reporter These are all full-time, permanent, union positions. www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

Did you know I’ve got a starter pack of awesome people who make awesome video game books and magazines?

President Clark just declared martial law and dissolved the senate, and Babylon 5 season 3 is starting to feel too real

Four ways to avoid taking damage in FF6

Here's my vibe check from my time at Tokyo Game Show 2025, which was a complete 180 from the last time I attended the show, and just shows a Japan back at the absolute centre of the video games world. www.eurogamer.net/as-the-weste...

Support the cause by donating to our direct fundraising page here: tilt.fyi/Jr23vhNVE6 Want to learn more about Trans Lifeline? Visit their official website here: translifeline.org

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

Big announcement from me! On October 8 I will be moving to the UK for a new opportunity that will take me out of the media (but I'll still be in the games industry). You can read what that means for @bloodgodpod.bsky.social right here: www.patreon.com/posts/future...

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

brief look at nintendo's in house level editor in the late 1980s, and I appreciate how the paper drawings of characters etc seem rightly like they didn't waste energy stressing about illustrations being perfect when they're plainly for discussion and internal use

It's Saturday morning, and you know what that means: Axe of the Blood God LIVE!!! Join us for Nintendo Direct recap with Kat, Victor, and Nadia! Do it for this lil guy. twitch.tv/bloodgodpod

Friday night

For no reason in particular, reminder that now is always a great time to donate to Trans Lifeline if you have the means: translifeline.org/donate/

We had a Nintendo Direct today, and that means a new Nintenkats newsletter! I shared the five announcements that intrigued me the most, starting with the shock revival of the Virtual Boy... which I'm kind of into? Link: nintenkats.beehiiv.com/p/pokemon-le...

As the trailer suggested, Pokemon: Pokopia is being developed by Koei Tecmo. I'm not aware of them having experience in that genre, but maybe I've got a blind spot? I thought it looked promising

Amusingly, the screen will be a lot worse than an actual Virtual Boy lol

Engage has the best maps the series has seen in many years - miles better than Three Houses - and the FE Force Ghost mechanic adds a lot of fun layers to the customization. I had so much fun playing it. I even liked the cast eventually

Your periodic reminder that Fire Emblem Engage is criminally underrated youtu.be/DMtDNA_kiZ4?...

Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave announced for 2026

💀

It’s me, the girl who is really excited for a new Fire Emblem, actually

They finally did it. They made the thing I’ve been talking about for literally a decade.

This is just 🤌

I’m not that far in Silksong (I can float now) but my main observation is that I find it much more accessible than Hollow Knight. I’m not getting lost as easily, I’m getting through the bosses quickly… I think it’s because I already speak the game’s language so it feels less daunting

JJ McCarthy.

I forgot that every Vikings game is three hours of pure anxiety

As is tradition. Skol Vikings.

Here we goooooo

Silk Song's "speed completion" achievement challenges players to 100% the game in under 30 hours For comparison, Hollow Knight's version of that achievement was 100% in under 20 First game also had speedrun targets of 5 and 10 hours; this one has a 5-hour one

Logging in to the eShop to try and download Silksong 🫠 No luck so far

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