hockey is back 🥲

Palestinian Voices in Games announced - a network of more than 50 industry professionals supporting Palestinian video game creators, with 4 games currently receiving help. (Read more: Palestinian Voices in Games)

it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible aftermath.site/silksong-hol...

A condition took away the use of my hands. Silksong helped me rehab them aftermath.site/silksong-hollo...

great piece by cecilia. i was looking at the steam account yesterday and noticed that two of his reviews (specifically sea of thieves and helldivers 2) had been banned briefly by "a steam moderator" for violating steam TOS, but others remained. they're both back up now.

ever since microsoft's layoffs in early july, the two zenimax unions have been fighting for impacted employees following the cancellation of the elder scrolls online studio's unannounced mmo. they've won laid-off workers more time (aka more pay), better severance, recall rights, and saved some jobs

US Oversight Committee requests Discord, Steam, Twitch CEOs at online radicalization hearing aftermath.site/us-oversight-c...

Whenever you read complaints about a lack of "age verification", you should substitute it with "easily hacked third-party database of selfies and driver license scans"

Florida suing porn game websites over alleged age-verification violations: aftermath.site/florida-porn-h...

I dug into that recent Pokémon patent on @theverge.com in the interest of getting some facts straight www.theverge.com/games/779062...

Sorry but "writing is a valuable critical thinking process" is something you tell your freshman composition students, not the professional journalists you employ

icymi, from last week!

I first saw this post and laughed. I thought, "What a weird thing to ask." But the more I got thinking about it, and after I read the article (which is excellent, you should read it) I thought, this is exactly the kind of thing we lose out on with homogenized corporate media. (1/4)

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

eeee yay im excited to share my review of strange antiquities on rogue!!

love this by @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social

Wrote about Silksong as a cause célèbre slate.com/culture/2025...

This lede I'm very proud to have written would've have happened had I not gone for a walk after my interview with Frank Barbiere and stumbled upon one of those neighborhood public library dealios in front of someone's house and saw Planetary: All Over the World and Other Stories inside.

let's talk about x-axis inversion

back on game developer today writing about release schedules and silksong!!

Another corker of a column from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social, who has been speaking with Devolver Digital and Ysbird Games about what happens when your launch plans are suddenly blown out of the water.

NEW: The oddly timed confirmation that Assassin’s Creed Mirage is getting DLC tied to Saudi Arabia was due to a little-noticed detail: Ubisoft's CEO revealed it at a Saudi government-backed event I wrote about the project, the Riyadh event and Ubi worker concern: www.gamefile.news/p/ubisoft-as...

If you want to know why I bother with weirdo pervert gamer shit I wrote a little about why for @roguesite.bsky.social’s launch week www.rogue.site/editorials/s...

ICYMI - I launched my new newsletter/blog! Be sure to sign up for exclusive accessibility and disability reporting and commentary.

happy birthday to defector, without which @aftermath.site would not even a little bit exist

so excited to be back on @404media.co with a story about how lofi girl grew from a YouTube channel into a chill beats empire ✨✨✨✨

everyone talks about inverting controllers vertically, but i am wondering: who among us inverts horizontally? why???? vertical makes sense (i am one of you!!) but i cannot wrap my head around why someone would invert horizontally ?? (looking for answers to write about this for @aftermath.site!)

Hugely thankful to @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social for coverage of our Games for Palestine charity bundle in @aftermath.site - a site I'm a huge fan of. This is a really comprehensive overview of the organizations involved, including @unrwa.org and of the work to get this off the ground <3

If you want to understand what Take Us North actually is and the work its developers have put into this game, I talked to @kreyes121.bsky.social back in March www.wired.com/story/take-u...

10 months in the making, Play for Peace bundle launches to raise money for Palestinian Aid: aftermath.site/play-for-peace...

Hi hello, it's me and I'm here to say... I've launched a newsletter for The Verge. Optimizer has been in the works for a while now and I really hope you'll subscribe and join me for this very fun, wild ride into investigating tech promises to make our lives better.

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight. I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open: emmkid.info

I talked with fans in the Silksong community about how they've been passing time waiting for this game, whether that meant releasing a video on YouTube every day for years, or role-playing on Reddit www.wired.com/story/how-fa...

Trump tariffs are disrupting planner season: aftermath.site/trump-tariffs-...

when we talk about tariffs and duties and costs, it sometimes helps to break it down into what that all means for individual items. and how catastrophic that is when you extrapolate it out into...everything else.

did not buy a 2026 hobonichi weeks because the shipping was higher than the planner itself... and i'm upset about it!!! they're tamagotchi-themed this year!!!!!!!!

New: I wrote about an age of American consumerism that seems to be on its way out. (Also anyone else try to buy a Hobonichi this weekend?) www.theverge.com/analysis/769...

Buying anything from overseas is about to get more expensive, more logistically complicated, slower, and overall more annoying. Film photography community, retro games community, people into skincare already seeing chaos on eBay. eBay sellers locking US buyers out. www.404media.co/trump-tariff...

still on my break for a few more days, but this piece went live this morning -- on games and friendship!!

BREAKING: Over 450 game developers behind hit video-game series Diablo have joined CWA, joining the historic fight for a better video game industry. Hail to you, union champions 💪

with each successive round of layoffs and buyouts, IGN staff have found themselves increasingly overworked. so now, in an effort to get laid-off colleagues rehired, they’ve resolved to do their fair share — and no more

If you're following us here and subscribing to our free newsletters, thank you! Every follower we get and every article read and shared is a big help. But you get so much more when you subscribe to the site. aftermath.site/aftermath-site...

In the four years I've been at IGN I've watched its staff shrink and shrink, all while those who remain are asked to do more and more. I see colleagues skip lunch, stay late day after day, and burn out. IGN staff are passionate and love their work. But we can't keep letting that be exploited.

im on a break until september — was feeling so burnt out (and dejected from the layoff!) that i wanted to quit journalism. but i know that's not reality. i love this work and it’s important. for now, i will admire the goldfinches in the yard

This is the inside story of how Tea's male founder convinced millions of women to share their most intimate secrets on his app, then exposed those secrets in devastating security breaches www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...

Today's Polygon Exit Interview is with @nicoleclark.bsky.social, who ran Polygon's culture section, led the charge on many of the site's book recommendations, and did so much more behind the scenes. Always a pleasure to chat with Nicole! pvguide.ghost.io/polygon-exit...

Hey folks, now that I have somewhat processed being laid off from my job of 10 years, I am looking for freelance editorial work. Blogs, features, reports, copywriting, social media content, ideally. I’m quick, always turn in clean copy, and am full of ideas. Let’s chat!

How do you solve a problem like miscrediting? In her latest column, @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social spoke with union members, industry experts, and advocates to learn how collective action can help developers get the recognition they deserve:

Okay, big breath... After more than two years since we published our last documentary on the topic, it's time we returned to Disco Elysium: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZEA...

Love this. The reason companies haven't properly credited workers for years and years is because the IGDA and other bodies didn't have easy enforcement mechanisms. But workers in unions do have one, their labor. And they can withhold it to ensure the companies properly credit people.