i fell so hard at hockey on Sunday that the mesh shorts i was wearing have been imprinted on my butt via a bruise or abrasion of some sort lol

Konami suing over massive Metal Gear Solid 2 source code leak aftermath.site/konami-metal-g...

ON3 Design showcase: The spectrum of life and death. Can you remember your first #Tamagotchi? @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social can, and she's written all about the 90s craze in ON3. Get cute at on.games/on3 #ON3mag #GamesMagazine #ProjectWeLove @kickstarter.com

For @aftermath.site, I reviewed the Steam Machine. It costs $1049 base. It is beautifully designed. It might be one of the most important computers ever made, launched at the worst time imaginable. aftermath.site/steam-machin...

i am considering making a TikTok/Instagram for my miniatures so i made a tiny microphone to talk into lol

‘They kill games, we fight back’: the activists campaigning to keep video games playable

NEW: Former Xbox president Sarah Bond, former Roblox chief product officer Manuel Bronstein, and Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick have been linked with a secret society called 'Dialog' organised by controversial billionaire and conservative activist Peter Thiel. Strap yourselves in for this one:

i remain proud to have @mothership.blog alongside two extraordinary feminist publications, @theflytrapmedia.com and @autonomynews.co, as part of a VEEERYYYY good 50% off deal on a 90-day subscription! if you already support mothership, just use your subscriber email & we'll be taken off the bill~

Gamers sue Sony for allegedly breaking California digital purchase law aftermath.site/sony-digital-t...

We've hit 30,000 members! Thank you! To celebrate, we're dropping a ton of new merch: aftermath.site/weve-hit-30-00...

It's not news that Xbox seems to have no idea what it's doing in its big "reset," but talking about axing a studio it was praising just weeks ago for doing the very thing the company seems to claim it wants is... well, basically what we've come to expect

devastating news

For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.

For an industry that claims it wants new stories with new protagonists, new IPs with character, and stories that haven't been done before. There is virtually no long-term support for the studios that take the risk of creating these games. It's not sustainable.

50 critics, directors, designers, reporters, comedians, and authors share their earliest picks for Game of the Year 2026. Welcome to the EGOTYs!!!

People Make Games traveled to Michigan to meet Jerry Gretzinger, an 84-year-old man, who's spent most of his life working away on a single, giant map to an imaginary world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N...

day one of making miniature pottery

Blizzard sues to take down another private World of Warcraft server, Project Ascension aftermath.site/blizzard-proje...

i saw a scene kid at the mall today, a real live scene kid straight from 2004 and it shook me to my core, like, she must have been a time traveler

the duality of @aftermath.site

for @aftermath.site, I spoke to the makers of Forbidden Solitaire about the virtues of being a “no-hit wonder” and how tricky things get when you do have a hit aftermath.site/forbidden-so...

hehe i wrote about love and deepspace, everything i wanted to know when i started playing, as someone new to this sort of game

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...

Another banger from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social on the cultural and financial impact media bundles can have on independent video game publications

did google change something with its colors in google sheets? the spreadsheet i use to track my work is just slightly off color wise and it's driving me nuts

One collection in our library I'd love to see more people explore is the William Volk papers. Hundreds of spreadsheets and write-ups from the technology department at Activision in the early 90s, including: - Trade show reports! - SNES CD-ROM details! - Data on unreleased games!

remember when I made the miniature hockey skate? i made a tinier one. it took forever. my dog Celly ate it yesterday

I like scientist yoshi

new from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social! a review of yoshi and the mysterious book! aftermath.site/yoshi-myster...

I interviewed Elijah Wood, Yvette Nicole Brown, Randall Park, and Kimiko Glenn about starring in Among Us.

really like how this one turned out, really nice to finally be on the site that I read religiously while figuring out how to write

been 9 years since i was hospitalized for myocarditis. it’s super weird to think about—even 9 years later, it still impacts my life. anyway, a reminder to not ignore symptoms: the first ER i went to told me it was anxiety. by the time i went to the second, i was critically sick.

Announcing: Hidden Folks 2 - New themes and areas. - Improved graphical quality. - Second (not text!) clue. - Lots of new mouth sounds. - Various quality-of-life improvements. - Made in #godot. Get an email when it releases: hiddenfolks.com Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4480060

The URL for Summer Games Fest, a common typo, now redirects to the Transgender Law Center aftermath.site/summer-games-f...

It's back! The annual video game industry conflict minerals report returns for 2025! Let's see which gaming hardware companies are actually checking their supply chains to ensure they're not funding armed conflict and human rights violations, shall we?

been a bit slack with these kinda posts, and I know they're annoying, but still: we have no no backers, no investors, we are just running on reader subs, so every reader sub makes a difference! so does telling your friends! reviewing our podcast! buying merch! everything helps!

My first ever byline at the ever-wonderful @rascal.news writing about local independent tabletop book seller Tom Gibes and @tabletopbookshelf.com ! Was a real treat to meet Tom and get to tell his story and the evolution of the store. www.rascal.news/tabletop-boo...

If PERSEPOLIS is your only exposure to Marjane Satrapi, I recommend doing a deep dive into her other comics. When I finished library school and was unemployed for months, that was a project I took on and it was well, well worth it. She also put out a collection in 2024, WOMEN LIFE FREEDOM.

Aftermath is a reader-supported website that wouldn't survive without subscriptions. We don't have investors, don't have owners (well, aside from us) and don't have a sales team, so every new member helps us continue our work. aftermath.ghost.io/?ref=after...

coffee blog! 007 First Light's art team knocked it out of the park here, the game is full of varied and very functional coffee machines, from dogshit drips to a very fancy manual espresso machine.

my impressions of Paralives. It's....... okay! aftermath.site/paralives-th...

And while it's linked in the piece, I want to especially mention @boarlord.club's article from The Outline in 2018 that dug into the same topic. theoutline.com/post/3032/fa...

I didn't get to dive in b/c I was away for a funeral, but thank you to @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social for covering this topic (and Teen Vogue for thinking it's important enough to discuss). www.teenvogue.com/story/why-ar...

I wrote about how millions of people are tuning into a legal dispute over a Lego collection, seeking relief from the dark forces of the Scam World in which we all live www.rogue.site/editorials/b...

i wrote about motion capture, animation, and bodies in games for TEEN VOGUE! it's very excited to have a byline at a magazine that i've been reading since i was teen✨ www.teenvogue.com/story/why-ar...

We (404 Media) sued ICE because it failed to release public documents about its spyware. Now some docs are coming out but they're massively redacted. We are continuing to fight in court & are hopeful we'll get more: www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-...

so nice of @zoehhannah.com and @midimyers.com to have me by Mothership this week. I help readers decide which Persona to start with, and yes, it might might be Metaphor.

In L4D2 coach is thinner than we wanted but they were having issues with the bigger model and I still wish we could have had her in the game... The DMV woman... in our world in Cleveland, this was the most powerful woman on earth.

tangential to this article, but my rule for Boro's animation in Wanderstop was we were going to lean away from 'fat character' stereotypes. no jiggling, no lumbering, none of that shit. Let his personality shine. @anabell.zone, who did most of his anims, did such a great job bringing him to life.

i wrote about motion capture, animation, and bodies in games for TEEN VOGUE! it's very excited to have a byline at a magazine that i've been reading since i was teen✨ www.teenvogue.com/story/why-ar...