capitalism death spiral of a news week

Waking up to watch the world cup every morning has maybe single-handedly made me a morning person i am living

holy shit this game is intense

A video game studio should be allowed to make a bad game and gain some institutional knowledge without being gutted, skinned, and melted it down into glue every fiscal year.

This is fucking torture

Wearing my scarf, pint in hand at the pub, cmon boys get it done

Walking home at 8 am with cheese, bread, and spinach, and a coffee after watching the Socceroos in the early morning~

Proud to have started the “Wanker” chant when the ref was stretching his cramp

This is a fucking circus

what the fuck

I want to vomit

Fed Square at capacity for the Socceroos watch party in Melbourne. In the rain at 4AM

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Game File: Microsoft already planned to shut down or split with Ninja Theory when Senua was announced. "The thinking was that the promise of a newly announced game would help draw investor interest in the studio" www.gamefile.news/p/xbox-studi...

Fuck yeah NZ

It’s only 1 minute in, but there’s really something mesmerising about watching Brazil play football

football takes me many places

a goal in the 89th minute holy moly

for the best part of this year, I've been speaking to former Maxis developers to put together this: a near-6000 word oral history of Spore 🦠 www.designroom.site/spore-an-ora...

5am at Federation Square next week is gonna be fucking insane I love football so much

If you’re outraged about the military application of your Pokémon GO data just wait till you hear what Xbox is doing with your money

Is Stranger than Heaven the sequel or prequel to Stranger of Paradise

you don’t have to wait til a company does layoffs to have an adversarial relationship with it. it is weird to see games journalism do this Lucy and football routine when we all know how these companies work

Ubisoft EMBARGOED news to outlets about the layoffs and studio closures, FYI. Employees were told this morning. And then many reached out to us. Companies trying to embargo layoffs and closures might be the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in my 16 years.

It's hard to articulate why this one feels more egregious and grim than the similar stories every day. Something about Disney not even giving a shit about how many fingers Donald has just feels like the bottom has fall out of the whole thing now. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

everything else sucks but damn it if it ain't a great time to be a stephen root fan

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everybodY SHUT THE FUCK UP

Every Rayman game since Legends has been a mobile exclusive, sometimes even Apple Arcade exclusive, and now they're acting like it's the players' fault if a remake of the last new game on consoles that released over a decade ago bombs that's a sign that the series is not worth supporting anymore.

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

I have completed the swamp in Mina the Hollower, and I am positively levitating. What a great game this is

How mad incels are about a game can’t be part of our yardstick for quality. Especially at this scale, consumption is not praxis.

I dunno man. It really felt like those last two God of War games outsmarted themselves and no one else, real quick.

now I have to refer to Kerry as “my favourite guest” when he comes on the podcast instead of just “my favourite” because Kerry is the best and I will miss owning a website with him. There’s no one I would have preferred to start a dinky website with 🫂

The timing is not coincidental, and I am happy to endorse and wish luck to my friend Kerry on his campaign to become the Govenor of California. Good luck, Kerry!

26% of young Australians aged 10-16 have been significantly impacted by the social media restrictions introduced in December - more than half of this group report getting less news about world events and local issues www.westernsydney.edu.au/news-centre/...

it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad

Saw the goat tonight

I am pro-shoplifting but anti-talking about it to the New York Times, so this has been a hard day for me.

Cool people in media and content creation cite original sources and link back to those sources

I knew stuff like this was coming so I never synced my photos with Google and I use a seperate gallery app that does not get online permissions. Do not give these companies access to your life!

Had a few people ask, so just posting here that I was at Supanova today, but I left via the train a few minutes before that awful event happened

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Hear me out, what if we took this month of free public transportation and made it permanent

I am followed on here by a bunch of journalists, and like… y'all. What the living hell is anyone doing going to the correspondents' dinner, in any other capacity than to loudly, visibily, pointedly protest this administration to its face? And I'm not talking fucking coordinated pocket squares 🙄

In all seriousness though, that was a perfect encapsulation of Albanese and the modern ALP. Recognising things are bad, but not actually doing anything about it, in an infantalising and condescending tone. what a joke