plans for the day

So for this Juneteenth, I went back and updated my feature on the need to incorporate more Blackness into your gaming perspective, more relevant now than when I wrote it years ago. Check it out on @pcmag.com www.pcmag.com/opinions/cel...

We need your voice TODAY. 📢 The #NoFakesAct is heading to the Senate Judiciary Committee for a vote FRIDAY June 19th. This bill will establish an individual intellectual property right to your Voice, Image, Name, and Likeness.

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

"you simply must accept slop if you want new videogames" my jrpg backlog is literally mathematically unfishable assuming I even reach my average life expectancy

Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

Today marks an important milestone for NAVA: 100 legislative meetings attended in Washington, D.C. by our executive team on behalf of voice actors everywhere.

Credits : @_als_dk

We have a good feeling about this 😎 Gung Ho is thrilled to announce Lydia Leonard has joined our client list!! She is ready to join her fellow SWTOR cast members, such as @courtenaytaylor.bsky.social , @samanthabeart.bsky.social , Jonathan Keeble, Ewan Bailey, and Bill Lobley, at events near you!!

Happy Pride Month from your Chicago based Chaos Bi! 🏳️‍🌈 Still (unfortunately) available for FTE, contract work and side hustles. Lemme edit your words, or write them to begin with! Writing, Narrative Design, Consulting (DEI), & more! hbic at cypheroftyr dot com ✌️

A comforting sight while parking in North Carolina. Think I found a good place to get coffee ☕️ 😌.

THIS THURSDAY, @abigailcareyvo.bsky.social is joining @marinahascoffee.bsky.social to talk about what it's like being an actor in video games. Come be a part of the live Q&A :) 🕰 Thursday, May 28th at 4pm Pacific Time 🔗 twitch.tv/marinahascoffee

Signed! Join the fight and protect your rights ✨️ 💪

We’ve received multiple reports from NAVA members regarding the misuse of their voice and personal data on the platform Fish Audio. If you think your voice has been misused visit navavoices.org/reporting

It’s my immense pleasure to announce I’ll be a guest on Black Game Pros with drsleon (IG) hosting our chat. Register & join us on Friday: www.linkedin.com/events/74631...

Really good breakdown of the process of talking to your coworkers in this talk from Zenimax Workers United

👋 Please check out my new visual reel! 🪷Voice Acting Site: mai-han.com 🪷Other Links: beacons.page/maihan_ 🪷 Watch on YT: youtu.be/ADmS0ycxR5g

Since I haven't found a job in the year since my unemployment ran out, I'm throwing the link to the GFM with a slightly raised goal. I hate it but things are getting dire and nothing seems to be working out. gofund.me/202b9a87a

One week until our @takethis.org workshop on Managing Burnout for Game Developers! If you're intending to join us, make sure to sign up now! There's a recommended donation of $25 to support future workshop development, but I want to stress it is completely optional! givebutter.com/mental-healt...

Did anyone get to play The Outer Worlds 2? You may have come across a few of my bois!

Tell lawmakers you deserve the right to control your own voice and likeness 💪 Take two minutes to support the NO FAKES Act. #nofakes Make your voice heard here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

Come work with me! Our team has grown a lot in just a couple of years, but, well, you need a lot of hands for a game like this :)

dance with me

Video games stay with us. Sometimes it’s the worlds we escaped into when life felt heavy. Join us June 13th for 12 hours of fun, fundraising, and celebrating human voice in games and beyond. Follow @NAVAVOICES on Twitch and be part of it. navavoices.org/dop/

If you're not a union member, you should really join. The more people are involved, the better chance we have to get some kind of decent health insurance: uvw-cwa.org

UVW-CWA hereby announces our support for California State Assembly Bill 1921, put forth by Assembly Member Chris Ward of the 78th District! Inspired by @stopkillinggames.bsky.social, this is an important bill for gamers, game historians, and game workers alike! uvw-cwa.org/news/uvw-cwa...

We wanted to give a very special THANK YOU shout out to all the #comicbook stores that partnered with #NerdsVote across the U.S. to help us reach more voters! Customers who scanned the QR code on our comic were able to check their #voterregistration, #registertovote, or download our #FCBD comic! 🥳🗳️

left 4 dead and its sequel are full of some of the best small details and bits of environmental storytelling you can find in games. valve's jay pinkerton told me it's because the team opened up the writing process to the whole studio. as others have said about L4D's graffiti: AI could never

Join DC Public Library and NAVA for a community‑informed conversation about how artificial intelligence is reshaping creative work. 📍Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library 901 G St NW, Washington, DC 20001 Link to attend: dclibrary.libnet.info/event/16332527

Why you should try Post Games: - An NPR-quality weekly podcast on video games - Hosted by a 19-year games media veteran - Rare interviews with the most interesting people in gaming, from philosophers to CEOs, sex game designers to Dunkey - And scripts, editing, and music that respect your time!

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

TALK ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Sarah Elmaleh & Zeke Alton | SAG-AFTRA In this talk, Sarah & Zeke provide insight into how performers do their jobs, share details from the 2024/2025 Interactive Strike, and answer some questions from their fellow Game Workers

TOMORROW is #FreeComicBookDay!  @NerdsVote and @galaxycon have partnered to reach voters at participating comic book stores across the U.S! 🗳️  Save and share this free comic to help people realize their VOTING SUPERPOWER! 🦸 [ #NerdsVote #GalaxyCon #TheBalloteer #2026Elections ]

I want GAMES made by PEOPLE who are PAID to WORK and I'm not kidding just lowering my expectations in light of recent industry trends don't mind me

Have some time today and will be updating my Games Writing Resource document: will thread some of the stuff I have added. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Did you know that union membership is a pathway to healthcare? Our Freelancing Committee has been taking steps to make it a reality and it's one of their major goals. Until the US gets universal healthcare, you deserve coverage. Studios shouldn't be able to wiggle out of a system THEY helped create.

Lmao I remember a supervisor telling me this and then I did internal training on managing contractors and it said explicitly that contractors cost 2/3rds what a full time person was. It’s not complicated at all. Full time, unions, pensions, everything that’s been stolen from the working class.

I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

This year for #FreeComicBookDay #NerdsVote is partnering with comic shops across the U.S, to reach more voters. Participating stores will receive this free one-page comic to give away to their customers! 🦸🗳️ Have your #localcomicshop email [email protected] to get in on the action

Time to fundraise for @stjudeplaylive.bsky.social !! Donation link is up and running! tilt.fyi/xr0OXp6q5B We've got a modest goal to start off, with an milestone giveaway of a signed Karlach FunkoPop if we hit $1000 raised! #TeamCypher

Last month Kotaku.com reported that Arc Raiders has started replacing AI voices with human ones after fans expressed disappointment in AI generated voice lines in the game. (1/3)

Here are the parent companies with known layoffs in 2026 so far. You'll notice that each of the public companies listed has seen an increase in gross profit in millions YoY from FY2024 to FY2026.

Closing March 2026, here are the known games industry layoffs since 2020. The dashboard now shows quarterly totals in addition to monthly and yearly totals to help show boarder trends. This past quarter has been markedly bad both for known impacted headcount, and known waves (57% without headcount!)