I'm sure a lot of folks' capacity for rage has been overflowing for a while now, but this is some truly heinous shit that you gotta look at. I think those responsible for perpetuating this, as well as those who tried to kill this story, don't deserve a moment of peace for the rest of their lives

I mean the more interesting conversation (to me) isn't that Bari Weiss isn't good at journalism, it's that she's not very good at agitprop, the REAL role she was hired for

When Christopher Nolan uses The Font™ 😩👌

I want to do a write-up on the games I enjoyed the most this year and put it on the Ward Games site, but also I don't want to stress out about editing a piece of writing this close to the end of the year - a dilemma.

So much of games history has been framed as toy nostalgia by default, often even below the iceberg tips of pop culture. Art history through a lens of consumption as opposed to one of creation. But the history of our craft is so much larger than whatever I grew up with.

Love seeing Jake Paul's mandible get pushed into a whole separate time zone.

The Indie Game Awards stream was very good indeed.

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

I recently traveled to Middenmeer in North Holland to visit a data centre belonging to Microsoft. These buildings, we now know thanks to reporting from the Guardian, +972 magazine and Local Call, were used by the IDF to store **hundreds of millions** of phone calls made by the people of Palestine.

When you don't do a video game podcast anymore, you gotta think real hard about what you played this year, and what stuff from *that* was *new* in 2025. I like that Backloggd's implementation for personal GOTY lists. This is where my head's at right now for it.

Thinking about character "chirps" — those sound effects in games that imply characters talking without being full-on voice acting — and do people have a favorite version of those in a game? I think memorable ones that pop in my head are Undertale, Celeste, and Animal Crossing.

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*tearfully looking up at a portrait of the guy who illegally sold weapons to Iran and used to profits to fund right-wing death squads in Nicaragua*

I appreciate that Jira uses a serifed uppercase "I" in the body font they use. Not being able to distinguish between an uppercase "I" and a lowercase "L" is a special pain I've suffered all my life.

GTA 4 runs surprisingly well on a Steam Deck, in case you were wondering.

I don't know why the idea of developing concept art with AI is somehow meant to convince us that AI isn't replacing creative professions, when concept art is one of the single most creative and imaginative parts of the entire development process.

Dems are like "it's with a heavy heart that I voted to codify trans segregation, but it had to be done so Pete Hegseth can keep murdering fisherman in South America."

MUDA THEME ON LOOP

me, a remote worker: if you can't figure out how to run a studio remotely (*especially* after the pandemic) that's a skill issue

There's the "I want shorter games worse graphics not kidding etc etc" phrase, how about "I want artists to be able to make mistakes and make weird unappealing shit sometimes and not starve"

Does anyone happen to have an extra MAGFest badge they are looking to get rid of? 👀

I’m 34 today.

my all time favourite placeholder asset is still when our audio director read all the names of the animals out loud in english to use as their vocal calls

I am 100% pro Larian doing whatever pervert shit it wants and I can’t wait for another game where you can like, fuck a squid or whatever, but it really does further drive home the two-tier system of enforcement on storefronts. Bg3 contains basically everything small games get banned for

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I heard Keighley said “Wuthering Waves” weird last night, which, if nothing else, vindicates me keeping this square on gameawardsbingo.com

look i wasn't gonna say anything but when you hear "10 years in the making" from a game by jonathan blow just know that a game never takes 10 years because of good employee relationships and clear leadership direction

He’s undeniably an industry legend, but given his present condition it feels gross and exploitative for the Game Awards to have Peter Pepper presenting an award

Never forget that Neo canonically won at #TheGameAwards and immediately tried to jump off a roof.

So, ah... you don't have to watch The Game Awards. Just watch the trailers when they drop after the show; save your sanity while harming on Keighley's bottom line.

Fun reminder: Blow sucks.

Failed a squat with 335 lbs on the bar. That was scary. Fortunately, my trainer was there to catch me and sweep me up in his big, strong arms.

well

SKATE STORY is NOW AVAILABLE on PC, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch! Go forth. Devour the Moon.

Update: no more peanut butter.

It is snowing again here in Richmond and all I have in the house to eat is 1/4 of a jar of peanut butter, 8 eggs, and some Greek yogurt.

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Haha, make a game about languages, they said. You for sure won't become an amateur linguist by the end of it, they said. And you *definitely* won't be plumbing the depths of linguistics Wikipedia to make sure you properly understand something you learned in grade school, they said.

Saw the Bogost skeet and it’s really as dumb as you might think.

I think it's wonderful that there's a lot of well-known and interesting thinkers in the games space these days and we don't necessarily have to only listen to people who had reserved seats at the bar ten years ago.

I'm not going to re-write a whole piece I already wrote 8 years ago, so here www.vice.com/en/article/s...

Bodes well given Netflix has recently shut down and divested from multiple game studios.

a whole new world to explore

Leading industry figure gets the very vocal ick from art for adults but not Microsoft’s genocide complicity is great representation of the video game problem.

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Having seen some of my favourite games journalists leave the industry because of work conditions, sites shuttered or bought by larger and larger conglomerates - I struggle to place the blame or burden on them for covering indie games

yeah the harsh reality is that we do take a chance on small games no one's heard of a lot more often than anyone thinks we do. but literally no one reads the articles, which then reinforces to the powers that be that they're not worth doing. I don't know how to solve that problem!