Help me make a dream project: a documentary film (on Blu-ray) about the SCUMM engine and the incredibly-imaginative, brilliant LucasArts games that redefined the adventure genre. It'll feature designers Ron Gilbert and David Fox, artist Mark Ferrari, and many many more, but only with your help.

Two big God of War announcements, fresh from State of Play: Ω God of War Greek trilogy remake in development 🛡️ God of War Sons of Sparta, out now on PS5 Full info: play.st/4ky9u3n

This whole GitHub Issue comment thread is bonkers 😱

cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?

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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

It's so wild to me that I am mad about a literal pharmaceutical company not being treated justly by regulators. We live in the craziest timeline.

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Walz: "The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here. There's going to be accountability on things that happened, but one of them is the incredible and immense cost borne by the people of this state. The federal government needs to be responsible."

First episode comes tomorrow. 5pm UK. Here is a little preview: @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social speaks about how fighting vaccine disinformation might be as important and impactful for public health as vaccine science 1/2

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

We received printer proof copies of The EGM Compendium. Still feels crazy to hold an actual copy of the book. Working for magazines, you get used to seeing the results of your efforts soon afterward. This has been a long time coming. 4.5 pounds of EGM + gaming history overload!

We just released a video from our visit to @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social, where we spoke with Mark Budde and team: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS2o... Highlights include: ✅ 3D printed magnetic bead contraptions ✅ When sequencing more is easier than sequencing less ✅ Bread machine analogies

Dr. Oz invited Epstein to his home for a Valentine’s Party in 2016, 8 years after Epstein was registered as a sex offender for attemtpting to procure a child. Epstein’s sex offender status was no impediment to his social return and acceptance by the extremely wealthy members of this administration

AOC: We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and crashing, and I think it’s because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles through:

Ok. But the @wsj.com and their covid disinformation/revisionism put people like him in power.

Come work with us!

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

The Epstein files have been updated; it now consists of nearly 430 GB of data and 1,500,000 files. This includes documents that have since been deleted by the Department of Justice. ddosecrets.org/article/epst... Donate to help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential! gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks. Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.

We are looking for a new member of the Patapoutian lab: recruiting2.ultipro.com/SCR1003TSRI/...

California won't stand idly by while Trump and his lapdog Republicans use their "Big, Beautiful Bill" to virtually eliminate all federal Planned Parenthood funding. I just signed legislation delivering $90 million to reproductive health care providers across our state.

When your department is running a faculty search, who in your department's faculty can see faculty candidate materials? 1️⃣ Only the hiring committee 2️⃣ Committee + select faculty in areas of interest 3️⃣ All dept. faculty who have been given a "charge" 📊 Show results

Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

It...is...a...right. Never forget that.

Job opportunities... Newly launched Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park seeks applications for three collaborative postdoctoral fellowships. Best consideration date 3/14. Full Details: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

11 days to go!

I'm thrilled to announce my beat at @us.theguardian.com is expanding to cover more reproductive health reporting. Got ideas or tips on what to cover? Email or message me on Signal! This feels like a really natural extension of my reporting on bodily autonomy and health freedom, and I'm excited.

My kids and I are stoked for this.

Apropos of nothing much, a reminder that Nixon’s Attorney General served 19 months in prison.

Of course Vinay Prasad did. RFK Jr’s cabinet of MDs are not basing their decisions on data or on evidence or on science—instead they must please RFK Jr & adhere to his kooky MAHA ideology (yes to ivermectin, no to mRNA vaccines).

7 years after I started VGC, I’m incredibly proud of the editorial team. In particular, in the last 18 months, we visited the likes of Team Asobi, Capcom, Kojima Productions, and TPC, while interviewing Todd Howard, Hideki Kamiya, Sega, Square Enix, Konami, Sucker Punch, CD Projekt, and many more.

VGC recently travelled to Tokyo to speak to Game Freak's Shigeru Ohmori and Koei Tecmo about Pokémon’s big spin-off, Pokopia, and learned how it was directly inspired by Ruby and Sapphire. Extensive impressions and dev team interviews via the link: vgc.news/features/pok...

"Quite a few of us were warning people about Vinay Prasad before it was cool." True.

And if our previous event has inspired you - we have a Call for Papers now open for lightning talks at our upcoming online symposium on games preservation! #gamespreservation #gamesstudies digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/videog...

THE POLITICIZATION OF THE FDA IS A BAD BAD BAD THING.

I wrote about Diablo

This is going to turn out to be something extremely stupid.

Big @bostonglobe.com / MassINC Polling survey out this morning. "They came to Massachusetts to cure disease. Now they’re packing up their labs." We surveyed NIH funded scientists in Massachusetts about federal funding cuts & policies. Here's what they told us. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...

“MacDonald has done something no English-speaking reporter has before her: told the story of Nintendo, in detail... She has gotten inside the mind of Miyamoto, and the intangible miasma that has made video games what they are today” Thank you @plante.bsky.social🙏 www.vulture.com/article/shig...

Trump’s name appears more than a million times in the unredacted version of the latest Epstein release. Trump, who claims the files are a “hoax,” initially featured 5,300 times in the redacted version. This was only half of the 6 million documents DOJ reviewed, prompting renewed fears of cover-up.

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

This was a failed coup by the Trump administration against Democratic members of Congress. Everyday Americans on the grand jury stopped it. The 6 targets were right all along—don’t follow illegal orders. Speak truth to power. Because it will prevail.

Marty Makary is an anti-science crank.

At long last, my final PhD chapter is out: we developed a novel evolutionary simulator of bacterial pangenomes, Pansim, fitting it to data from >600K genomes using a likelihood-free framework, PopPUNK-mod, to explore neutral and adaptive pangenome dynamics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This baby died because of Vinay Prasad, Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Oz, and Marty Makary.

One of the things I really want to emphasize is that while FunFactor is centred around retro gaming magazines, it’s really a show about games history, media, community, and the way video games shape our lives and culture. Nostalgia for old gaming mags is not a requirement to enjoy the show!