Age of Rot is finally available again!

started getting emails from my bank for opening loans ahead of the holiday season and it's so bleak man

guess what! Game Informer is coming to newsstands! starting next month, you'll be able to find the magazine in major retailers across the US.

Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.

If you had told me Call of Duty would be the linchpin in our government finally getting loud about AI regulation regarding jobs, I would have laughed at you. www.ign.com/articles/us-...

i'm gonna be real. if arc raiders or any game that has genai in it or was snuck in/patched out wins an award at TGA or game of the year, it's gonna be bad. the awards are meaningless to the average consumer. but to execs it's a huge deal and it'll be a signal for them to keep pushing for it.

the assignment was to be the most unlikable member of the team.

was up until 2am and I'm feeling like hot garbage so it's clearly the perfect time to do my placements in Marvel Rivals

Hate the argument of "Well you can boycott for now, but soon every game studio is going to use genAI and you won't be able to tell or avoid it anymore!!" dude there are already more videogames in existence than I'm ever going to be able to play in my lifetime. this boycott shit is easy.

it's been raining all day today and it's been amazing

re prime 4 discourse, todasy is as good a time as any to say: video games talk AT you way too much in the 2020s! i'm not talking abt too much narrative (not a real issue). i'm talking abt a constant, patronizing use of narration to /predigest/ everything from challenge to mood to emotional impact!

I think this is a pretty pervasive problem beyond just games, which a) is definitely an issue; b) is another element of it feeling increasingly asked to solve things that are tangential to or even sometimes orthogonal to “make a good game”.

i gotta know how much the coffee bean and hot topic paid to get in-game buildings in marvel rivals

A note about the TGAs worth remembering as this Future Class story unfolds: it’s a marketing beat, consumer-facing, and voted on by media/influencers. Developers are, by design, not included or considered in the structure. Which feels bad! www.polygon.com/explained/49...

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

final post-op appointment tomorrow!!

for real though it's pretty easy to find the people who make the things you like and befriend them by being normal and fun. stressing 'normal' here

this website is a roleplaying game where you can only pick byronic hero or superfluous man

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

The Rockstar union case made its way into UK Parliament earlier today

Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company” automaton-media.com/en/news/kraf...

ff12 basch

had a fantastic day with a friend. maybe taking time off is good actually.

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora

hit me

I think it's so funny whenever kojima glazes hunter schafer his replies are guys cry posting at him about western degeneracy of whatever and it's like dude that battle was lost when kojima started retweeting death stranding 2 mpreg

The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act. The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.

if u mfs want to see books and video games and comics about darker themes actually get funded you need to actually stop being a fucking whiner when horror creators tell you the cozy label is hurting us. the publishers don't care about the niche made up definition of cozy you have in your head

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

Ten years ago, two municipalities in Tokyo wrote history by commencing Japan’s first so-called “partnership systems” to provide some level of recognition to LGBTQ+ couples’ relationships. In the years that followed, the policy has spread tremendously and paved the way for further change.

used the day off to clean up my room and now i think i'm gonna do some reading and writing before late night client calls.

his kit is everything i need/want in a support as someone that plays emma and hangs out in the back line to protect my supports from dives lol i potentially no longer have to audibly sigh and swap and can just stick to a support now 😭

Frankenstein studies

We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...

Much of the hand wringing, imo, is over a critic explicitly saying they are judging the moral fabric of a piece of art because of the tools used to create it and it’s making some folks feel uncomfortable and shamed. The people who feel that way should sit with that feeling.

x-men evolution scott skin x-men evolution scott skin pls netease pls

HELL YEAH HELL YEAH STRATEGIST W

One of the publishers I worked with submitted my game to igf without either asking me or telling me they had done it. I only found out when I saw it in the list when I logged in to judge. V embarrassing.

credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point

dinner with my girl @umbralvision.bsky.social at a cool local spot

The gazer.

“Why aren’t they banning trans men from sport” They were before, and they are now, I’ve watched my mutual (@geekyjules.julessherred.com) go through this for months whilst people chat shit about shit they don’t know about

Feels very weird how some devs seem to now look at direct implementation of mechanics that simulate real gambling as being fine so long as they aren't the mechanism that directly siphons takes real money from you. I'm not sure I really agree with that principle personally.

@apehardware.bsky.social hello! i've been checking out your games and was wondering if there was a proper channel to reach out to you about your work for something i'm currently working on. (feel free to reach out to the email in my bio!) looking forward to potentially chatting!

okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form: forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...