I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Clearly this isn’t about Kimmel’s innocuous comments, it’s just pretext for more intimidation in service of the authoritarian goal to control the media.

As @robinlvalentine.bsky.social notes, we have a new champion of the survivor-likes genre. Destructible terrain adds a needed tactical layer to this style of game.

I cannot overstate how good of an editor Dan is, and how fierce of a protector he has been for IGN's editorial integrity. That impact will last beyond him, but I am going to miss him a lot all the same.

Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

To create a popular video game, one must merely cultivate a self-perpetuating, grassroots mythology around one's release date

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

100%'d Monster Train 2 last week, struggling to figure out what my next game is going to be before the FFT remake releases on Sept 30. Then again, MT2 has upcoming DLC...

Me and the guys were talking about the weird moths we’ve seen while sitting around the campfire last weekend. Now today, this hummingbird moth rolls up in my backyard. Immediately texted the boys. You gotta keep the boys updated on any noteworthy moth activity

In a very good cabin for Labor Day weekend

Having fun, playing a fun word game Wordle 1,530 6/6 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The Battlefield 6 beta feels like BF, but interestingly, it also feels like Call of Duty. It has its gunplay, its "tacticool" animations, its TDM/Domination, its granular gun tuning. For the first time, Battlefield isn't just a CoD competitor, but an alternative. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ba...

"It's controller by way of Cronenberg: Where one might expect their hand to rest upon a right analog stick and grip, the patent art instead sees the controller's right side splay outwards with non-Euclidean hubris into an unwarranted and unholy expanse of mousepad." www.pcgamer.com/hardware/con...

putting AI in ms paint... these are sick, dangerous people

80+ hours and 1 year later, my friends and I finally rolled credits on Abiotic Factor. It's one of the greatest survival games ever made, and easily my favorite. The 1.0 update hits today. Review: www.pcgamer.com/games/surviv...

Those 1-0 OT wins in Rematch feel great, just a 5-minute duel for possession and then the tension breaks.

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

Beat Cov 9 on Monster Train 2 with hell's ugliest dream team: a very angry shark woman, a magic axolotl, and a one-eyed flesh golem who can ignore death exactly 16 times.

After playing this Steam Next Fest demo, Absolum is at the top of my most-wanted list. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

Bright spot on MindsEye: the soundtrack is from the very good Rival Consoles, and stands up extremely well on its own rivalconsoles.bandcamp.com/album/mindseye

all conservatives are bots

In LA this weekend for SGF but have received word from HQ that our milkweed crop is being indulged by the monarchs. Let’s cheer these hungry boys on

We announce the first game from our new studio @softrains.bsky.social at the PC Gaming Show on Sunday. From a team made up of developers behind Skyrim, Fallout 3 & 4, Left 4 Dead/2, Half-Life 2 Episodes/Alyx, Watch_Dogs: Legion, and so many more AAA favorites. Two days out! Don't miss it, June 8.

In addition to the wonderful art direction (A+ color palette), the thing that makes Final Fantasy Tactics work is the RPG party as a sandbox unto itself, a level of freedom that surprisingly few RPGs or strategy games have replicated. (1/2)

A primary thing keeping me playing Monster Train 2 is seeing how tall the mushroom troop pile art can get. I must break the mycological ceiling

Hazy afternoon game in Detroit with my parents.

I wrote a tribute to Leif Johnson, a former writer for many gaming publications, and my friend, who died last weekend. The world is poorer without him in it.

A mere two runs into Monster Train 2, I have a new ride-or-die

we need a wario of the left

We have a cool show for you on June 8. Start getting hyped with our Steam page, which is bright and colourful as all things should be. store.steampowered.com/curator/1850... (More info here: www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...)

@joshuawolens.bsky.social is a generational talent www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...

If someone says games aren't art then send them this

Tom's Hardware is hiring for a Senior GPU Editor (US-based) The position is in-office or remote in the US, and is perfect for someone who is an expert in the intricacies of benchmarking, semiconductor manufacturing, and graphics cards. Salary range: 70-90K USD

TFC was the first game I played in a competitive league. I remember doing conc jump drills and scheduled practices with clanmates, organizing our strategies in forums and IRC, all pre-Steam, pre-voice chat, pre-YouTube. Undoubtedly one of the best eras.

Have been playing the Wildgate weekend playtest. It's definitely a successful attempt at sci-fi Sea of Thieves. I wish it was more simmy, some of the edges are sanded off, but it's still a pretty intricate game with modular shield sections, different ship layouts, tiered loot, and basic PvE.

In extremely French FPS news, the Straftat devs just surprise-dropped smoking gear as cosmetic DLC

Early-May rain means morels made in Michigan.

GTA 6 trailer suddenly reminded me of that time I played as a shark in GTA 5 www.pcgamer.com/gta-5-shark-...

This is my patented zero-g pickpocket maneuver in Skin Deep. Float like a butterfly, steal like a cat.

Here's @morganpark.bsky.social telling you everything you need to know about Skin Deep and immersive sims in two perfect opening paragraphs: www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/sk...

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Bizarre and upsetting to see Polygon hit like this, a site that is generally the fourth biggest gaming website in the US. Amazing talent and a great reading experience. @charliehall.bsky.social's tabletop coverage is the best in the world. So much thoughtful work led by @plante.bsky.social.

They should've made more successful games, obviously. I mean, Respawn? Who's even heard of --

"Spelunky 2: it's PC gaming's Mario! Rated E for Everyone***" ***when the opportunity presents itself you will create several copies of a dog with a clone gun, then sacrifice them to a minor Hindu goddess in order to gain health

Sorry but I don’t need another French video game. I’ve seen Rayman, that’s enough

One of the VO lines in the Oblivion intro is Stewart reading "These are the closing days of the third era" which is a fun little echo of "These are the voyages" from the TNG title sequence youtu.be/JGhlg4JqvQw?...