Today is my last day at WIRED! I adore this team, but I’m looking forward to writing about more than just games and working on some other cool projects. I’m taking the holidays off but will be freelancing on the side, so editors get in touch 😎

Adventure Time creator on AI: "We're cooked." aftermath.site/ai-pendleton-w...

the td garden DJ absolutely knows what they’re doing by playing tatu’s all the things she said during the bruins game tonight lmao

Doom studio id Software unionizes to secure AI protections, benefits: "We see the direction the industry is headed" aftermath.site/id-software-un...

This is wild: Jason Clinton is the deputy CISO of Anthropic. Also a mod of a queer gamers Discord. Clinton forced a version of Anthropic's AI on the server, despite the community's wishes, and it's killed the server. AI was reading messages it shouldn't be too www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

Tiny Bookshop briefly removed from Nintendo Switch store in ratings debacle over the word 'arsehole' aftermath.site/tiny-bookshop-...

this interview is essential reading for SILENT HILL fans 🐜🦟🦗 i know i wrote it 🤧 but 😇😈 silent hill f producer motoi okamoto and scriptwriter ryukishi07 were just so honest with me about their vision for the franchise, and what they need from you... www.gamesradar.com/games/silent...

i have a really good idea for a non-fiction book about sports but i have no idea where to start

remember when I wrote a dang comic. a cool thing I always wanted to get out there finally done this year

i love my snowsky echo mini aftermath.site/digita-audio...

i loved @jaymcastello.bsky.social's analysis of the original ending of hades 2 (aftermath.site/hades-2-endi...) and now i also love jay's new analysis of the new/patched ending of hades 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMa6...

Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

NEW: “We’ve hit a snag” - The untold saga behind a missing Star Wars video game DLC that spawned a lawsuit One of the most detailed stories I’ve ever run. An inside look at the year-long struggle to make KOTOR II’s cut content available in the game’s Switch port. www.gamefile.news/p/kotor-ii-r...

late last week, workers of different stripes gathered outside rockstar's nyc office for a protest in solidarity with fired devs in the uk/scotland. the message, as fired rockstar workers head into a hearing this week, is that they've got global support, and bosses can't hide

Happy Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc digital release eve. I spoke with composer Kensuke Ushio about how he made me cry with his score, summer's end.

Give the gift of @aftermath.site 🎁 aftermath.site/gift-subscri...

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

shoveling teddies at my other job lol

the third episode of heated rivalry is so good and devastating

NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones! My guide:

mikko rantanen looks like an evil villain

I've honestly been disturbed by how little discussion there's been about the game's handling of sexual assault. Games can and should explore difficult subjects like this. Horses doesn't clear the bar for the level of sexual violence it subjects its characters to www.wired.com/story/horses...

Honored to have @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social on the site explaining the significance of the Keighley hell rock

eulogized a video game-related animal for the second time this year, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice

NEW: Netflix is selling cozy game studio Spry Fox back to its founders as the streamer shrinks from six game studios in 2024 to three Spry Fox is avoiding closure, still working on the ambitious MMO Spirit Crossing Netflix is releasing games, but has changed focus www.gamefile.news/p/netflix-se...

every year npr puts out the best, most diverse goty list. there are always so many games on here that i haven't played, let alone heard of. it's very cool. i'm super excited to be part of it this year!

one side thing to this piece that i'm thinking about the IARC rating system. is it normal for a platform to apply for the rating after a developer has already done so? it sounds like no. curious in general how this works, if anyone wants to chat. (dm me!) aftermath.site/horses-steam...

A delightful investigation into one of gaming history’s most ironically iconic moments from the wonderful @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social - especially wonderful to read in the aftermath of what happened at Polygon. skyboxcritics.com/2025/05/22/t...

new from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social on the whole deal with horror game Horses: aftermath.site/horses-steam...

the wardrobe in heated rivalry is not period correct

5000 is such a psychological barrier, breaking it is gonna rule. thanks to everyone who has subbed so far, I hope you're enjoying it all, but also if you haven't, a reminder that we're running a $1 sale at the moment!

No thoughts, just fish aftermath.site/tiny-aquarium-...

The new issue is out today. @jeremypeel.bsky.social plays Toxic Commando and talks with Tim Willits. After that, he interviews Failbetter about moving on from the Fallen London universe. @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social writes her first ever article for Edge, about the growing chaos of game prices.

Exciting news! Thanks to our sale, we've rocketed all the way up to over 4,900 paying subscribers. This means we can cross another goal, a regular columnist, off our list. We plan to sort out the exact specifics in our own time, but for now, who do you think would be a good fit?

i love hockey

my quest to make after aftermath a hockey website continues! i spoke to columbus blue jackets goalie elvis merzlikins and the artist who created this sonic the hedgehog mask:

that’s right for 24 hours I am the Game File Street Team, very shrewd of Stephen. Subscribe! Give me cash! Fund more freelancers on Game File!

For @aftermath.site, I spoke to @imodrew.bsky.social, the Sucker Punch dev fired after making a Charlie Kirk joke. She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially. aftermath.site/sucker-punch...

Two months after firing over Charlie Kirk comments, Ghost of Yotei dev blames harassment campaign, not 'bad joke' aftermath.site/sucker-punch-c...

do you ever just get so sad??

hey look I’m in @stephentotilo.bsky.social’s Game File with a review of Blippo+, one of my favorite games of the year that’s not really a game, more like channel surfing TV from another planet. It rules www.gamefile.news/p/blippo-plu...

Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE. “They’re failing all of us,” his mom said. thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...

EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum". PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...

I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...

A hockey team recreated the Evangelion intro for a stadium full of fans aftermath.site/neon-gensis-ev...

turning aftermath into a hockey website (i spoke to the skilled lehigh valley phantoms creative staff who put together this incredible evangelion intro!!) aftermath.site/neon-gensis-...