My cousin had a copy of Duelist #41 lying around. Became obsessed with 6th edition. Eventually bought a Planeshift deck. Got completely obliterated at school.

Talk about feeling seen

Pouring one out for all the in-laws outraged at how this movie ends

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I don’t post much on here but this came out today & I’m very proud of it. Thanks RPS & @edwinet.bsky.social for letting me do this. Skating, videogames…both things have had a profound impact on how and why I write, so to be able to put this article out in the world means a lot to me.

In fairness, when I read those first two graphs I thought this was an expose revealing what happened because no one who ever admitted to that would be employable in this field again, right? Ah, nevertheless...

Okay but what if they all become infected with a virus and the actual game is you have to go kill them

Miyamoto still hasn't solved this one apparently

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Ubisoft waiting for Tencent to sign off on its latest earnings report

Fresh writing for the morning! I want to talk to you all about vampires, player expectations, and looking art in the eyes. aftermath.site/vampire-masq...

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

For years the only thing I knew about Maddy was the avatar in the Samus cosplay

French game union is coordinating a rally outside Take-Two France tomorrow in support of fired Rockstar devs

Running on my phone, you say

The Steam Machine is only 4x the size of the Ouya

Finally another Balatro device for my living room

NEW: the IWGB has filed formal legal claims against Rockstar after it says the company refused to meet to discuss bringing back fired developers. "Rockstar has declined to meet with the IWGB, leading the union and barristers to issue formal legal claims on behalf of the Claimants."

I for one am ready to see the "Eurogamer Review" discourse move beyond "is this legal?" (obviously) and "reviews are opinions" (also true) to literally anything more substantive and elucidating

When you break up Tenacious D to collect that bag

Excited for this but a $15 DLC with only a couple of new bosses feels thin. Hoping there's a lot more here than meets the eye.

fortnite friday is a talk show that takes place entirely in fortnite, which has nonetheless pulled names as big as gavin newsom, george santos, and the rizzler. I’ve always wondered how @connoreatspants.bsky.social does it, and I finally got a chance to ask him

🚨new piece on kotaku... from me!🚨 I wrote about the hollow feeling of a story that mistakes movement for change. Hades II Isn’t a Story—It’s Maintenance:

Sony just set the new bar for Directs with this Mister Rogers aesthetic

The "please don't quote tweet me Tim Sweeney" school of headline writing

"Nearly everyone at the magazine sent emails protesting Jasper’s firing. Condé Nast responded by placing five more employees, including another New Yorker staff member, on unpaid suspension. They, too, had stood in Duncan’s hallway."

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...

"We found out later that Keighley had a party in another room with all the influencers and industry people. You know where Future Class met that day? At a Starbucks.”

You'll never guess that's playing

Overall liked Goodnight Universe, but one of the best parts of Before Your Eyes is its concise focus, and how its use of webcam tech to track your blinking felt inseparable from what it was trying to say. Goodnight Universe tries to do a lot more in twice the runtime. It's ambitious, but messy.

This was definitely a good use of everyone's time and money

WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything. we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.

Stop patting senators on the head unless they are calling for schumer's removal. Everything else is just in the script

it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy

Caucus leader has one job really

Telling my kids this was peak Lego

When you fall too deep down the algo rabbit hole and god sends a sign

i don't have much to say other than that this article is really, really good and i suggest everyone give it a read in terms of how to view, what to keep in mind when engaging w/ interactive historical fiction, and our participation in a glorified past that exists w/in unique contexts.

It's weird to say but the descent of 99% of marketing into forgettable display ads and click-optimized junk sucks. If we're going to be inundated with ads they could at least feel like they were made by humans and not just algorithms or pharmaceutical companies.

Welcome to my video game news homepage! Have you considered these hot new deals on random random Bluerays? Can I interest you in some virtual merch codes for half a dozen ftp games you've never heard of? How about the answer to the NYT cross world? Wait, come back, where are you going!!

Trump take job

Take-Two CEO asked about Rockstar during earnings call: "I can't talk about how the inner workings of the studio are reflected in current activity...I think the culture at Rockstar is extraordinary and we're all pushing hard toward perfection" Cites past Metacritic scores of 95

Here are all the times Take-Two's CEO was "confident" about GTA 6's release date.

BUT WILL WE GET MOTHER 3???

GTA 6 delayed again, this time until November 2026. Announced days after Rockstar fired over 30 employees for allegedly leaking company secrets while talking about unionizing.

Having worked at subway I can smell this

I know it's just me being annoying, but watch and see who gives credit to the journalists *actually* covering a story and who just writes something — with no sourcing or credit — for engagement. And remember that! Journalism costs money and the people who actually cover things need your support.

Just one of those days

The Future Class was created in 2020 when a lot of companies responded to online critiques and broader social justice movements with DEI initiatives. Hard not to read part of the subtext here as the TGAs, like many other brands, trying to distance itself from "woke."