Spent the last few days chatting with queer men in the Love and Deepspace fandom about its homophobia problem, and why some fans are protective of the game to the point of resisting even men who like men taking part in the romance game's community. kotaku.com/love-deepspa...

I spent an unhealthy amount of time ranking my favorite farming locations in modern FromSoftware games for @aftermath.site Please enjoy. aftermath.site/dark-souls-e...

The drive to be the best but cursed to forever have a tummy ache

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

This is awesome. It's also why i love so many of the #mtg playtest cards. The art is simple and sometimes downright terrible, but it conveys enough idea to get the job done and make a decision!

There’s too much lore to explain how a great piece like this is emblematic of the guidance Chris Grant brought to the GameSpot team, but as we continue to benefit from his help, it reminds me how unfair it is that he was so coldly sent away.

an issue with how we talk about the games *industry* is that i think we have normalized talking about studios like interchangeable labor pools instead of groups of artists making creative work

The way StS2 handles its placeholder art is so charming

Last week I interviewed the wonderful Casey Yano from Mega Crit about Slay the Spire 2’s placeholder art and how it proves these studios need to STOP with the gen AI placeholder nonsense ✨ Had a great time writing this and hope you all enjoy! www.gamespot.com/articles/sla...

where my community managers who would be willing to chat with me for a story at? 👀

Games media publications big and small have been working overtime to show the full scale of fuckery happening at Microsoft. I get that shit sucks. And the media can always do better. But this “nobody is as smart and bold as me and my Bluesky pals” posturing is so tired and unhelpful

Andrew and I purchased one of those Brick things and the best part about it (other than it definitely reducing our screen time) is getting to ask each other if we’re “bricked up” regularly

@jessicogs.bsky.social doing the work. 👏

Fantastic read that actually dives into the now-political situation with LADS. One thing I think worth adding: CN has been cracking down on LGBQT+ authors (especially BL), so for legal reasons, it’s expected corpos like this to over-correct. Not meant to be an excuse - just an unfortunate reality.

If you’re a queer man who plays Love and Deepspace and wants to talk about your relationship with the game and community, I’d love to chat with you for a Kotaku story. RTs appreciated.

Great read! I largely became aware of Love and Deepspace through Jessica and really appreciate her insights here.

Oh so fuck this game, actually.

So I haven't covered this particular facet of Love and Deepspace but it's something I'm well aware of: A lot of the strife in the fandom is not only driven along east/west geopolitical lines but gay/straight ones too. Jess gets to the heart of that and I'm glad she's writing about it.

So I decided to write about how a particularly heinous incident that happened earlier this year and the ongoing Valko mess has caused me to end my relationship with Love and Deepspace www.gamespot.com/articles/im-...

Cried, laid in bed for three hours, took some ibuprofen, and ate Taco Bell 🤘🏻

Welp. My entire team at Gamespot has been fired, so I'm more available than usual for freelance work. Also affiliate revenue consulting for anyone who wants to actually make money off of commerce content.

I’m so tired of life being reporting about layoffs in the months between my own team’s layoffs

Yes, there were layoffs. Yes, I am safe. No, I am not doing well.

Lmao sick, I just got laid off from GameSpot while on paid medical leave recovering from a gunshot wound.

If I were in charge of Xbox, I’d have just made Viva Piñata 3. Problems solved, tbh

Work break to share that one of my dear besties is hosting a charity event for Children’s Music Fund! If you’re in the STL area, I highly recommend you check it out 🎶🖤

man oh man am I very very worried for Love and Deepspace www.gamespot.com/articles/lov...

Seems like I’m going to Gen Con for the first time ever 👀 Who am I seeing there?

Sony is taking this away from us

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

We got RuneScape in a Phoebe Bridgers music video before GTA 6

I’m sure the people who worked and bled and crunched and still got let go today appreciate all of the corporate “gratitude and compassion.”

My godddddd

Funny how it’s always the people who actually worked at the studio and not the select few who are responsible for all its poor decisions

Yes yes yes. Very good article from the very good @jakesteinberg.substack.com

SILENCE, GEEKS!!!!

Man do I feel bad for folks working at a game shop in a rural area. I did that (twice, actually!) for awhile, and the amount of folks who would avoid buying a game if it needed to be downloaded because they had terrible internet was HIGH. And now they need to download 600 GB???

New York Times uses Ubisoft co-founder's obituary to launder 'DEI' complaints about an Assassin's Creed game: aftermath.site/assassins-cree...

Suraj has a point.

It's Monday so time for some cool news. I am the new Head of Interstitial Directors for @gamesdonequick.com ! I'm so excited to work with the team at GDQ to put on amazing shows for such important causes, and to also step back into the AV world after a few years away!

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

happy Father’s Day to the best of the best 💕 thanks for raising the cutest kid in the world with me (and lookin so good while doing it), @joyboygenius.bsky.social

every time i see people taking the stairs in FF7 Remake I wonder how many people never even see some of Barret's best lines in the game because they're exclusive to the elevator route

With the newly released AI warning for Steam v1.1.0 you can turn the AI disclosure on Steam store pages into an unmissable popup and blur or hide games with an AI disclosure in the search results! github.com/seeeeew/aiwa... addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addo... chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-wa...

Here's a rare one: we're hiring a News Editor at Eurogamer! The role is hybrid in London, though there can be some wiggle room on this for a worldie of a candidate. We're after someone who can not only proof, but understand how to push a story forwards originally. www.eurogamer.net/eurogamer-is...

So for this Juneteenth, I went back and updated my feature on the need to incorporate more Blackness into your gaming perspective, more relevant now than when I wrote it years ago. Check it out on @pcmag.com www.pcmag.com/opinions/cel...

Just saw someone say that Gengar is Kuromi for men and that dopamine hit is what’s going to get me through the day

I didn't have time to check out all the indie titles at SGF (there were so many!) but of the ones I played, here are my top 3 that I can't stop thinking about: youtu.be/wGNSFY8teEM

good to know you can sexually assault women and ruin their professional lives and still get to direct a video game. cool, love this fucking industry lmfao

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHhhhHhhhh!!!! 😭💕✨💕✨