Will be at #G4CLondon26 on a panel later today with some brilliant folks - Maria Sayans, Rosa Carbo-Mascarell, Tristan Clark & Oliver Mauro - talking about how games can drive positive change across communities 🔥 games.london/G4Clondon/

PLEASE. yall would not believe how much time we lost trying to ensure that Wanderstop's relatively limited use of video cutscenes would run on _just_ pc and steam deck. did you know they're NOT cross-compatible for video????? for some reason

this sounds so great. i think the idea of taking stories traditionally associated with 'epic scale' and making them heartfelt and lo-fi through the creative artifice of people with real good taste is the way forward for all kinds of media, especially games www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/s...

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

While people at home are dreading the next energy bill landing in their inbox, fossil fuel bosses are filling their coffers We need a permanent, tightened windfall tax to claw back every penny of excess profit being made on this crisis and put it towards supporting households

wow folks turns out I am against generative ai unless it’s Iran producing lego rap war propaganda bangers youtu.be/NMQ4rIncFJw?...

corporations co-opting fandom practices was such a dark move imo - instead of fans using their imaginations to produce transformative work and communities, fans became passive consumers entitled to “service”

More than half of men ages 18-49 (52%) now say they have an active sports betting account with an online sportsbook like DraftKings, Caesars, FanDuel, or BetMGM. sri.siena.edu/2026/04/13/m...

Austin Walker is one of the coolest people in games and I felt so joyful getting to listen to this interview, where he dug into one of my games and put it in dialogue with one of his own. ✨

All of you nerds for procedural music, storytelling, and tarot need to check out Divinuet

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i think a good question to ask is: why aren't there any "mom games" but "dad game" is a defined genre

InterfaceX26 starts today! a Steam event of games featuring fake and fictional OS. "Everything is going to be ok" is part of it. interfacex.net "More than 150 developers and publishers have come together to launch InterfaceX26, a week-long Steam sale and livestream running from April 27 to May 4."

congrats to the entire team at @outerloopgames.bsky.social for the launch of Dosa Divas! Will look forward to checking it out soon — it looks thoroughly gorgeous and vibrant 🎉

✨ Say hello to the Beautiful Games Club ✨ It's like a book club, but for games that we feel are deserving of a little bit of special attention. In our first episode, we're playing and discussing Neva (2024) by the incredible @nomada.studio and @devolverdigital.com.

Anthology of the Killer is OUT NOW on PS5 and Nintendo Switch! The groundbreaking and dreamlike, IGF Nuovo-winning horror-comedy series from legendary auteur thecatamites, is finally on console! Play once and remember forever.

I don’t know how people keep forgetting that workers rights were entirely written in blood and the capital class had to be threatened with violence before they agreed to things like 8 hour working days and 2 day weekends.

I don’t even have words for this.

Palestine Action group cleared of violent disorder Mr Justice Johnson formally acquitted Head, Corner and Kamio of violent disorder: "I will direct not guilty verdicts in respect of those three defendants on that count." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Lift The Ban on Palestine Action

The Pope is weak on crime aftermath.site/the-pope-is-we...

A lot of coverage of the Molotov cocktail allegedly thrown at Sam Altman’s mansion but very little coverage of this lawsuit in which the same Sam Altman’s younger sister alleges horrific sexual abuse at his hands www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

More villages in South Lebanon being detonated by Israel. Israel is the one sharing these videos. They are proud of their war crimes.

New episode!!! I sat down with @meghna.bsky.social and @joostvervoort.bsky.social from Speculative Agency to talk about @allwillrise.bsky.social This was a fantastic interview, so excited that I was able to have them on

Our newest episode is out on YouTube! This week we have a great conversation with @jessiegender.bsky.social about the ethics swirling around consuming the Harry Potter HBO reboot and why it feels like folks are more receptive to a boycott now than with Hogwart's Legacy youtu.be/foppBBy2NJU

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I've wished for Arab-made games about Arab mythology for so long, and despite assisting on the project I still can't believe there's one swinging for the fences this hard. House of Hikmah is something very needed in a time where the world would rather erase us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZTu...

GenAI isn't a useful placeholder when making video games. It doesn't save time, and it actively stifles the creative process. Here's what local devs think: @untitledlucegame.bsky.social @mickey.ghoulish.com.au @madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social @theboyofcheese.bsky.social @tdogextreme.bsky.social + more.

If an Iranian soldier was stuck in the mountains in the US, the UK, Israel, or Germany, & every American or British or Israeli or German boy or man from 16 to 60 walking within 3km of him was killed by drones, would any politician or media call it anything other than murder?

Just want to add to this that a Canadian man I met who’d fought in Afghanistan said while there they defined FAMs (“fighting age male”) as any boy over the age of 12

esquire decided to interview an AI homunculus of a one piece star instead of the real guy. this might be my breaking point

Every day is a new day to try. Did you know that Palestinians still rely on eSIMs to connect with the world? Did you know that Crips for eSIMs is still providing that connectivity? A five keeps someone connected for a month. Make it monthly? bit.ly/esimsUK

Wow this sucks www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

No, fuck you. You don’t get to suddenly decide that copyright matters when folks suddenly have access to the source code of your spicy autocomplete due to your own incompetence.

Mary Wollstonecraft warned you that women who are only objects of pity and love, due to their “fascinating graces,” their “soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, [and] delicacy of sentiment” — in a word, due to their weakness (and not strength) — “will soon become objects of contempt.”

Don't take the words, images, and news from Gaza for granted. The duty to help Palestinians connect to the internet—an inherent right, and a crucial connection to the world—persists. Help Crips for eSIMs continue to connect people! A 5 sponsors one eSIM! Make it monthly! bit.ly/esimsUK

She spoke out about Gaza. Now she can't use a credit card. The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.

my analysis is tilted by my view that video games will stagnate unless we are able to capture new audiences, bc imo there are currently more games than we have players who have the time, inclination and money to play them -- great for current players, but not sustainable for most devs and studios

Been using Steam since orange box, so yeah I have completely forgotten that Steam is extremely unintuitive, my nephew actively asked me not to get him games on steam for years (he's 13 now and finally sort of starting to use it). Extremely accurate doomerism IMO. Too many games, not enough buyers.

Israel has passed the death penalty solely for Palestinians, enforced through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. Israeli Minister Ben Gvir popped champagne. The Israeli government is raising a toast to genocidal apartheid. The UK government is arming and funding it.

i'd say, ask someone who has never played a game to download + navigate steam, EVEN IF they're interested in a specific game -- it's such a high barrier to entry! i had this experience with Thirsty Suitors over and over again -- people would love the concept & trailer but Steam was a huge impediment

jesus fucking christ man

Meanwhile from today’s Telegraph…

Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time Anatomy of one of least studied human organs could improve outcomes for women who have pelvic surgery

Eurogamer on 'The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope' book, and all the amazing pieces you can find in it. 📘 www.eurogamer.net/inkle-kaleid...

"This is fixable. We just haven’t got people who care enough about other people to make the changes." Such a wonderful interview with Hannah Spencer. Really captures both my brilliant friend and colleague. 👇🏼 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will have their benefit almost halved if the government assesses their condition might one day improve. Charities warn the move could cause large-scale hardship, including “destitution.” My report in tomorrow’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ministers are reportedly exploring how to cancel dangerous spy-tech firm Palantir's contract to handle NHS data after over 150k people joined me in calling on them to break the contract. Join us - together we can kick out Palantir out of our NHS: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Gambling and AI slop for the plebs. Cinematic handcrafted AAAAAA experiences at 12K a pop for the 1%. (This time quoting the correct post…)

An absolutely deranged conspiracy theory, here. Get ready to hear it over and over again, both at full xenomorph-blood strength and as a watered down but still highly corrosive version.