It is always a HUGE joy to chat with my friends at Engadget. Devindra and Ben have always been so kind. I really enjoyed this conversation, which spans the Xbox One announce all the way through this week. The carnage at Xbox and the amazing studios is so unnecessary and tragic.

The Steam Machine is disappointing. It is really quiet tho

This week on the @engadget.com Podcast, @jesslconditt.bsky.social and I discuss her impressions of the Steam Machine www.engadget.com/2207598/enga... And we dive into Sony’s decision to dump PlayStation discs in 2028

On the eve of July, Xbox workers and union members have words for Microsoft

The Indie Pitch is back 🖤 First entry of 2026 is I'M YOUR HOST by Calligram Studio (a team that I'm slightly obsessed with after Phoenix Springs)

you do not, in fact, have to spend money to save money

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made a gif of ciara from this perfect moment in the shaboozey video, pls enjoy

here's your summer game fest roundup, perverts

what a great era for horror games, huh? I wrote about a few today, but this one is probably my favorite lede image

Good morning! Join us LIVE on the @engadget.com Podcast around 11A ET www.youtube.com/live/L3-JS-R... I'll be chatting with @jesslconditt.bsky.social about her review of Valve's new Steam Controller. I know I don't need a new gamepad, and yet...

The Steam Controller is nice, especially for the price. Just don't mistake it for a PC controller:

Endometriosis is hell, so I guess I'll become a demon queen. An update on my life:

here's your game awards roundup, perverts

perpetually stoked for new games from deconstructeam

on sundays we listen to XG

Join us LIVE on the @engadget.com Podcast in a few minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-eD... I'll be chatting with @jesslconditt.bsky.social about Valve's new hardware, as well as our favorite games of the year

It's Halloween night. Do you know where your kids are? Sincerely, Aunt Gladys

What's the best way to make an effective, powerful game about perseverance? Lived experience.

The first game of LoL Game Changers playoffs is live 🖤 Fine viewing on a Monday morning

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If everything is an Xbox, why would I spend $1,000 on... an Xbox?

eyes open:

amid a sea of fucked up things, this is severely fucked up

You've heard of shower thoughts, but what about cosmic fungal extermination thoughts? A chat about death and the cosmos with @kaittremblay.bsky.social:

Fill your news feeds with the stories that fascism is trying to strangle. A starting point: www.bellingcat.com www.motherjones.com www.erininthemorning.com karenattiah.substack.com www.youtube.com/@SMN www.youtube.com/@BehindTheBa... www.youtube.com/@TheDailyZei... bsky.app/profile/deni... 🖤

Thanks for inspiring me to finally get these thoughts on the page, Bwipo 🖤

I'm back from vacation and the weekly video game column is coming in hot

I make no apologies for the first line of this week's newsletter.

this is an ode to the silksong subreddit:

come watch gamescom opening night live 2025 with @krisholt.bsky.social and me 🖤

Let’s agree to stop giving credit to that awful conservative activist group out of Australia, OK?

VILE: Exhumed is a tragic example of the damage and chaos being wrought by financial censorship on Steam and Itch. "Silencing a story about violence, entitlement and sexual expression shows the age we are living in, and I deeply worry for storytelling and art.” - @dirtlord77.bsky.social

in the middle of a few projects rn, so the weekly gaming column will arrive as soon as possible 🖤

s.p.l.i.t is the most fucked up typing game I've ever played, and that's literally just the beginning

last night I said the phrase: that's a real secretary bird of a horse girl. which two pieces of media was I consuming??

this week, I'm fried

impress your friends and loved ones this weekend with comprehensive knowledge of the subnautica 2 drama

spoiler: it was kojima

I'm still here, motherfuckers 🩷💜💙

Musk: "Grok was too compliant to user prompts." Sol Messing, founder of Twitter's applied sciences research team: "I don’t think that fully explains the set of instances of pro-Nazi text generations from Grok that we saw." fab insight by @igorbonifacic.bsky.social

“They only brought a meal once a day and it has maggots. They never take of the lights for 24 hours. The mosquitoes are as big as elephants.”

Phil Spencer is just a guy in a Battletoads shirt trying to answer the question, "How does this industry get back to growth?”

enjoy your independence day, be with your people, and most of all, fuck fascism

Meanwhile this email came from Microsoft this morning.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

layoffs suck