How did Amazon lose the gamers again…

The best, succinct, and simplest statement about right and left politics. The right start with fear the Zack Polanski starts with hope, facts, and science. Every Reform supporter should watch this short, Zack makes it clear and simple. youtube.com/shorts/LQZom...

Saw some cosmic worms at a new installation just around the corner, as you do

This week’s Creative Bloq indie spotlight is Birdcage, a shmup that with smart use of digitised sprites and sprite-scaling captures the 2D/3D vibe of 32-bit classics like Radiant Silvergun www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-gam...

Do I know any Edinburgh-based games journalists?

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

The IWGB has just announced that 220 letters, signed by Rockstar staff, have now been delivered to leadership at the company, demanding the immediate reinstatement of their fired colleagues.

this cop wanted a shuppet, who is attracted to negative emotion, so he could use it to find people before they commit crimes. first thing it did was go to his wife who reluctantly revealed she’s resentful of how much he works and is never home. it’s a fucking yakuza substory.

NEW: the IWGB has filed formal legal claims against Rockstar after it says the company refused to meet to discuss bringing back fired developers. "Rockstar has declined to meet with the IWGB, leading the union and barristers to issue formal legal claims on behalf of the Claimants."

Enjoyed that Mario Galaxy movie trailer, telling that the characters getting the coolest looking moments are both princesses

Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied: "Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀

Nice of PlayStation to remember their home audience 5 years later I guess

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

🎉 Lumines Arise Available Now for PS5 and Steam 🚀 Light, sound and haptics unite your senses. Feel the good vibes. Puzzle differently. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2370000/Lumines_Arise PS5: store.playstation.com/concept/10011885 lumines.game #LuminesArise

"We found out later that Keighley had a party in another room with all the influencers and industry people. You know where Future Class met that day? At a Starbucks.”

Happy Lumines Arise day so once again here’s the interview I did with director Takashi Ishihara for Creative Bloq www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-gam...

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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Don't miss this new interview with Director Takashi Ishihara all about Lumines Arise! @creativebloq.com.web.brid.gy www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-gam...

If you were a member of The Game Awards Future Class and can speak to your experience, I want to chat with you for The Guardian! DM me, or email alyssamerc[at]gmail[dot]com. Signal boost please!

Went to Edinburgh yesterday to do some real journalism

I was a member of TGA Future Class 2022 and lemmee tell ya, my skin has been crawling since pretty much every interaction I had with them (few) & story I heard about other members' interactions with them (many) was bad. & by bad I mean, so many shades of being used as photo op tokens & nothing more

This week’s Creative Bloq indie spotlight is Lumines Arise where I interview director Takashi Ishihara on how this music-based puzzler gets more than just the Tetris Effect treatment but also a more personal and human touch www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-gam...

A good way to ease the pain of anticipation of a game being delayed is perhaps telling people what your game is

LOL knew it

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Oh, the good old days of being a competitive Puyo player before I was eventually crushed by the Tetris meta

A 5th of November to remember!

These aren't Mamdani's ideas. They're really old ideas. Very moderate light social democracy. Regulated capitalism. Ideas applied in much of Europe from World War II until the 1990s and in the US from the New Deal until Ronald Reagan. No, dudes, this shit wasn't always like this.

I ❤️ NY

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Naming your studio AAA Games Studio certainly is a choice

Ahead of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment’s launch, I look back at the times the Legend of Zelda’s titular princess has actually been playable, for better and worse www.stuff.tv/features/how...

This whole thread. “Oh no, someone might eat food!” Good. That’s good. “They might buy something they like.” Cool. “They might get a treat!” Also cool.

“FUCK AI” is turning into a movement. After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”

Nothing like encountering a game-breaking progression bug just as the weekend begins 🙃

RGG localizer Michele Howe (Neverwhere/Nevvie) has just passed. If you can, please share or donate to the fundraiser for a proper coronary report and final expenses.

This week’s Creative Bloq indie spotlight is Possessor(s), which despite Heart Machine’s upgrade to Unreal 5 is largely a return to 2D for the studio with beautiful illustrative art and fighting game-inspired frame animations www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-gam...

As it’s actually Halloween today, here’s 10 spooky games you should play tonight www.stuff.tv/features/10-...

Man spends night ALONE in Xbox haunted house

Just when I thought I left my Animal Crossing island back with my mum… dammit, might just start up a new island where it’s just me in a tent with all those Nintendo consoles

Got a couple of reviews in this issue, including a JRPG that’s out today!

A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

This appropriation of gaming imagery and culture to push authoritarianism is, as @alyssamerc.bsky.social points out here, the natural extension of what Gamergate began www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

Sister’s family is holidaying in Okinawa, and so being the nerd I am, I want them to take pics so I can compare with Yakuza 3

Simogo Legacy Collection announced for Switch 2, Switch, and PC Simogo has announced Simogo Legacy Collection, a compilation of the developer's first seven games, available for the first time on consoles and PC. It will launch for Switch 2, Switch, and PC via Steam on December 2 for $14.99.