We had to find out via the website!!! AND we asked what happened to the money!!

Just think of how many Jeff Rosenstocks you could see for the cost of one Geoff Keighley

I asked about Game Awards press tickets in October. Got an email yesterday encouraging me to buy my own, as there were no spares.

Still thinking about the “official” 2023 Future Class meetup after we had to pay for our own travel to LA/hotel/tickets to the Game Awards, only to stand on a sidewalk outside a Starbucks where they wouldn’t even cover the cost of our shitty coffees 🫠 www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the...

Based on what we know, Metroid Prime 4 feels more like a follow up to the Hunters storyline than the mainline Prime trilogy. So I decide to replay Metroid Prime Hunters for the first time since it came out. youtu.be/Bed6ETd_d6Y

Rolled (first) credits on Pokemon Legends Z-A. What a comical step back from Legends Arceus. I still enjoyed it - active battle system cooks on occasion, side quests are generally good, characters likable, the new Megas are inspired - but it seems like a wild misread of what ruled about Arceus.

How else are you going to run an awards show without sponso.... Oh wait I'm hearing most of the show is advertisements and the advertisements cost the game pubs/devs six figures minimum. This is deplorable.

All this proving once more that The Game Awards is nothing more than a hollow advertisement, designed explicitly for profit. It's not here for acknowledging cultural achievement, improving the industry or celebrating workers. We should really stop glorifying this event as a 'celebration of games'.

perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers they just profited from us

I'm glad more about The Game Awards Future Class being totally shunned by Keighley is getting wider spread. It's cowardly, embarrassing behavior and will make the inevitable "we do support the devs" monologue from Geoff more infuriating than usual.

At the level that The Game Awards currently stands at, it is an *active decision* not to support the Future Class, because they have the resources to do it. And that simple fact makes anything that Geoff Keighley says about honoring game devs at TGA into a lie. (2/5)

EXCLUSIVE on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: not only has The Game Awards not nominated a Future Class for 2025, it's told alumni it "does not have any active programming plans" for the award. The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.

The Future Class was created in 2020 when a lot of companies responded to online critiques and broader social justice movements with DEI initiatives. Hard not to read part of the subtext here as the TGAs, like many other brands, trying to distance itself from "woke."

I voice the brave Korok warrior CALAMO in HYRULE WARRIORS: AGE OF IMPRISONMENT. This character was an absolute joy to play, and it was really cool to get to be a part of a Zelda game. The game is available now on Nintendo Switch 2.

looks like all mention of the future class program (which started in 2020) has been wiped from TGA webpage 🤪 the only archive that proves it existed is through the wayback machine. Here's my cohort (the last one): web.archive.org/web/20241119...

Metroid Prime 4 may be the first numbered game in the Prime subseries since 2007 but we did make one other return visit to the world of Prime in 2015. Metroid Prime Federation Force was a controversial spinoff, hurt by poor marketing choices. That said... it's pretty good. youtu.be/0maZWHswigs?...

AI will NOT take the sparkle emoji from me ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

The truth is, we never needed the Future Class branding. FC sure did know how to pick 'em, though - some of the most brilliant young devs are in that program. So we will keep building a better industry, artform, and world, as we were both before and after the FC name. What will you build, Geoff?

Honestly it feels really bad that when we asked them to put their money where their mouth was, TGAs instead killed the entire Future Class program.

“Be diverse young people with fresh ideas!” “Sir the young people are opposed to genocide.” “-not like that.” This is about The Game awards Future Class

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

Bluesky might hate hearing this but both Spanberger and Sherrill talked about trans rights precisely as Sarah McBride said they should And they both preserved their policies while just changing their rhetoric And now are trouncing Republicans 🤷🏻‍♀️

Fucking hell yeah

Ska inadvertently bringing back a '90s classic. Love to see it. Link 80 forever www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

hey if you see all the Discourse today and want to like, actually play a musou, you should do that. it's a genre more people should try, because they're really enjoyable games that balance an action power fantasy with crisis management. Most Competent Team Player Simulators.

Happy Nintendo-Acknowledges-Digidrive-Day to all who celebrate.

We are officially one month out from Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. So journey back with us to the day Metroid went 3D in our original 2002 review for Metroid Prime. youtu.be/ClRSB-jRmeY?...

2 months left and I have now topped the amount of shows I've been to by 1 (but still 4 sets back - went to more festivals in 2024). That'll get passed by mid-month. The frequency of bands is funny because I saw the same tour 3 times on two occasions (for Murder by Death and then PUPStock)

Ethical baseball is hating the Dodgers and also hating your favorite team

i only in the past year heard the unionization slogan "united we bargain, divided we beg", so sharing in case you havent heard it. its hard to misunderstand or argue with

Pokemon Legends Z-A, the game ostensibly for children, has a side quest where a Pokemon helps a man find out his wife is secretly pissed off at him for being too absorbed in his work.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

DO YOUR PART JOIN THE SKATUNE PLATOON TODAY 🫡🫡🫡 73 new patrons is dope! LOOKING TO DOUBLE THAT NUMBER! Even if it’s at a dollar a month! Patreon helps me not only cover basic living expenses, but also covers a lot of operating costs for the channel that I’ll list below

I think Animal Crossing is gonna get me back in the fold in January. Weird Nintendo crossover items. Playable NSO games in the game. LEGO Mouse support

Rodgers gets denied www.thedrawplay.com/comic/rodger...

Two classic RPGs call for two reviewers! @nron10.bsky.social and @jrudek.bsky.social team up to take a look at Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake on Switch 2. youtu.be/B2UEzk32sEc?...

Short form video is killing gaming and the fastest selling console in US history just launched and layoffs are the only answer and multiple franchises are seeing record setting launches and we need to expand use of AI to make more games faster and we've had huge increases in release count each year.

im glad the government posting halo memes is revealing that half the people reporting on it are fine with it

Me: after Fest, I should be good for concerts for the year Also me: huh I guess I'm going to a concert a week in November

If you needed another reason to buy this, the zombies say "traaains" instead of "braaains"

Cackling at the look on my face that got captured in this video during the AJJ set. Moments before the downpour. I can tell because I pulled my bag on the other side of the barricade to protect it from getting soaked

Putting aside the fact there are about 10 stars missing from the AI generated flag. The Trump tariffs have been directly responsible for the PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch seeing a price increase in the US. Not sure how that's "Power to the Players".

Packers HC Matt LaFleur on Jordan Love's performance with Aaron Rodgers on other sideline: "It's great for Jordan. Jordan's worked his ass off to get here. He was patient throughout the process, throughout the journey. And he took advantage of the opportunity."

Folks it happened

I feel like this image is a good summary of the vibes of a side of modern ska. A banging trumpet solo A dude dressed up as a power ranger Someone in an inflatable costume clapping Anyway @flyingraccoonsuit.bsky.social rips so hard

Hey I get to do this again tonight but reverse order and AJJ in the middle. Imma be blissed out from like 5:30 to 9... ...and then I'll check what happened in the Packers game so far and see if that mood continues