IGN Entertainment is refusing to pay its workers the wages we deserve, even as we make #IGNLive the event that it is this weekend. So we left a message that can’t be ignored. And you should too. Let our upper management know that you support us by sending them an email here: bit.ly/4e2uUCP

Just had a word with Tupac’s ghost and he said he’d rather be in that Sonic racing game instead.

I enjoyed trying out Ace Combat 8, jetting through the clouds and burning through a hundred missiles to clean up the skies. One thing I got stuck on: in a flight fantasy eschewing drones for human-piloted dogfights, why does the plot feature misinformation propaganda? www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

I’ve got 667 hours in D2 on PC alone and… yeah. This got me 🥺

The Trump administration has made it increasingly difficult for hospitals to provide pediatric trans care. But instead of consulting parents and legislators, we talked to the actual children whose lives are at stake. Read more from Grace Byron with this gift link: buff.ly/f0SEtXg

a thing that every writer experiences regularly that every video essay would benefit from is a person who takes the first 25-75% of your WIP and throws it in the trash

We lend our voices to the 150 detainees, including hunger strikers at the Adelanto processing center and read their letter in the “Petition of Writ” that we received from @chu.house.gov. Here are their words. (2 parts) PART 1

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

Today, the IGNCG sent this letter to our President of Ziff Davis Gaming & Entertainment to demand pay that reflects the rate of inflation in our contract. Please join us in asking @errorjustin.bsky.social, @peer-ign.bsky.social, @corradimus.bsky.social, and @yprough.bsky.social to pay us fairly.

they should do a Lord of the Rings 40K in the same way there's two kinds of Warhammer

Google's been tinkering with more immersive video chats for awhile, even as recently as last year's I/O. So naturally, they've shoved an AI agent into it.

If you were a video game character, what would your health pickup be?

So yeah, Google shoving more AI into Search expanding data-scraped results will probably kill more traffic to media. But did you ALSO consider that their timestamped links to YouTube videos + agentic coding will kill YT creator revenue?? www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Exciting moment tonight at a horror writers’ panel where it struck me that the “you have to set your story in the past cos of mobile phones” era is over, cos now your phone will lie to you, mislead you, freak you out, let you down, and do all sorts of sinister uncanny shit.

Cool seeing @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social stump for @dsa.la candidates in the upcoming primary by running a DnD one-shot for them (w/ @erikaishii.bsky.social + @vicmmic.bsky.social). Naturally, they marshaled worker power & fought the corrupt corpo-landlord hegemony in the form of a literal dragon

Gundam Wing episode 1 if it had the Hathaway needle drop

Sucks to witness a classic Angels implosion and a stadium full of OC Dodger fans is insufferable, but I’ll die for Gundam-kun

Went to La Brea Tar Pits to check in with LA members of @videogameworkers.bsky.social, then @raeforla.com came to chat about policy stances and priorities for affordable housing, free buses, etc

I think it's fine for Xbox to change its name to XBOX but also don't let that impact whatever your editorial style is. Companies do this all the time to try to put extra emphasis on their brand. Your job is to not fall for that and keep doing whatever seems sane. You do not need to write inFAMOUS.

IIJA’s $42B in BEAD funding to lay mostly wired broadband was set to start moving in all 50 states last year, and in Trump’s opening months of 2025 it was pried open to redirect to Musk’s Starlink and other satellite providers for temporary, proprietary and worse service over the coming decades.

No matter how well-known Arkady Martine's "A Memory Called Empire" is, it deserves more.

mixtape feels like one of the least likely targets of misinformation campaigns and video game culture war ire yet, but that's kind of the point: this can happen to any game now, and indeed, platforms and content creators demand it. nothing will ever be enough to sate the beast

Now in print and online - you can read what I spent months working on. I talked to key developers behind Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Persona, Metaphor, and Sea of Stars. About the “turn-based reniassance,” if it really came put of nowhere, and what’s next gameinformer.com/feature/2026...

SCOOP: double fine is unionizing

I'll have a Mixtape review next week, but here's my first (👀) chat with the game's creative director, Australia's own Johnny Galvatron, who told me that "To people who live in Western cultures, America is Middle-earth." More about making a music-and-teens game here: www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...

I played Traveller’s Tales’ first Lego foray (Lego Star Wars, 2005) and so much is refined in Legacy of the Dark Knight — a blend of homage and humor. It’s a good reminder that Batman can be lighthearted fun with and without camp.

On the plus side, I’m now using Reddit a lot less ☺️☺️ these days I’m only adding apps when they’ve got a gun to my head

This era we are currently in is absolutely exhausting. Love this @katiecollins.bsky.social story www.cnet.com/tech/jeff-be...

Took me embarrassingly long to realize Pragmata starts Diana android and Hugh man

I walked out of the theater in 2015 gobsmacked that Disney bent so much of the new Star Wars around an edgelord incel school shooter who became an accessory to genocide because of… offscreen daddy issues. A weak creep that got so many chances and affordances.

I played three hours of 007: First Light, and it's got a lot of Hitman wrapped in a narrative about Bond growing from navy crewman to top spy. I was most struck by how it differs from the lone wolf 007 of films -- this Bond has friends, relationships and sentiment. www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

Cannot get this song out of my head 😂

www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt... it's weird to be able to say "No, actually, Pol Pot is a generous comparison, as would be Hitler"

In an hour, the first episodes of @dndbeyond.com's official Let's Play show Dungeon Masters go live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY9w... I sat down to talk with the cast (including BG3's Neil Newbon & Devora Wilde) about making a show for new & returning dice rollers: www.cnet.com/culture/ente...

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn has a live beta (an hour-long demo) I played -- it's shaping up to embody a lot of what folks liked about Mass Effect, but unmistakably set in the hard sci-fi of The Expanse. Anyone preordering at the $80 or above level can play today. www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...

Sony's making an animated Bloodborne movie with the production company that was tapped to make the Death Stranding movie. And also, uh, JackSepticEye. h/t @faith.bsky.social who saw this reveal on the ground at CinemaCon 🤩 www.cnet.com/culture/ente...

Gamers aren’t alone in rejecting gen AI — game developers oppose using it to generate things like art assets, but other uses, from admin to code assistance, have cautious support. My report on AI in the games industry from GDC 2026: www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...

Here with the mighty @cnet.com team for day one of #MWC26, my first time at the show (and Barcelona!), reporting on phones, wearables, and maybe a wee bit of AI. It’s almost the end of Day One and I r seen enough to write half a dozen stories.

Ahead of MWC 2026 and all the exciting new phones, @katiecollins.bsky.social casts back to a tale of a Samsung phone from 2012 that survived a decade in the Arizona desert — and the detective work to find who it belonged to www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...

Now that I'm on the other side of my forced hiatus (no we're not unpacked, mind your business!), it feels like the right time to drop a reminder that I am open to new clients and available for full-time work.

Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.

why is there anti-homeless architecture in pokemon

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Kicking off 2026 with a look at the gaming landscape and how generative AI has ensured gamers can't trust that the games they play are completely made by humans www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/...

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Love this story from @jacksonwryan.com about Lente, a game designer who developed a game about cleaning up waterways on a boat while, yes, she was living on a boat. More lovely stories about the people behind games by talented writers, please!!

CNET’s @outonalumb.bsky.social took the #OnePlus15‘s cameras for a spin around LA. This is OnePlus’ first phone since its partnership with Hasselblad ended. Take a look at David’s photos to see what OnePlus is doing without the iconic Swedish camera maker www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...